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Bolangir: A mild earthquake was felt in Odisha’s Bolangir district early Saturday morning. The tremors were reported around 4:40 am. Household items shook briefly while most people were asleep, but many woke up after feeling the tremors. Glass doors and windows rattled loudly, and many...

Keonjhar: The Odisha man who hit the headlines for carrying his sister's skeleton to a bank as proof of death to withdraw her money has been made the beneficiary of a slew of government schemes and received private donations. After the intervention of Chief Minister...

Bhubaneswar: Nor’wester storms lashed Odisha Thursday, bringing temperatures down by more than 2 degrees Celsius in several districts of the state. Only seven cities recorded temperatures above 40 degrees Celsius, with Bolangir posting the highest at 42.2 degrees, according to the Regional Meteorological Centre. The...

Bhubaneswar: Union Rural Development Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan Friday launched the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY)-IV in Odisha's Rayagada district in the presence of Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi. Chouhan handed over the PMGSY-IV approval letter to Majhi, in the presence of state Rural...

Koraput: Three police personnel were suspended over the custodial death of a 23-year-old man in Odisha's Koraput district, officials said Friday. Sub-Inspector Bikram Sahu and OAPF personnel Karn Pujari and Budhiram Majhi were suspended, they said. SP Sandeep Sampad Madkar said prima facie evidence established...

Bhawanipatna: A local court Thursday sentenced a man to life imprisonment for the 2024 murder of an acquaintance following a financial dispute at Paralasingha village under Kesinga police limits in Kalahandi district. District and Sessions Judge Anup Ranjan Pattnaik found Jitu Gouda guilty of murdering...

Bargarh: Two Odisha Education Service (OES) officers and a physical education teacher of a government-run school in Bargarh district were arrested on the charge of sexually harassing a woman employee of the School and Mass Education department abusing their authority, police said Thursday, adding that...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha State Cooperative Milk Producers’ Federation (OMFED) has announced a hike of Rs 1 per litre in the milk procurement price for dairy farmers across the state. The revised rate will come into effect from May 1, 2026. With this revision, farmers will...

Nandapur: A woman was killed and two others were injured after a mound of soil collapsed over them while they were collecting clay for house plastering near a canal in Koraput district, officials said Thursday. The incident occurred around noon near the Ganga nullah embankment...

Baripada: The Special Judge, Vigilance Court in Baripada Thursday found four individuals, including three employees of an urban cooperative bank, guilty of committing bank loan fraud and sentenced them to undergo three years of rigorous imprisonment (RI). “Asutosh Mohanty, Former Branch Manager (disengaged), Baripada Urban...