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Badamba/Maniabandha: A 30-year-old man was allegedly beaten to death and his body set on fire in a forest near Talamunduli village under Maniabandha police limits in Cuttack district over suspected sorcery and witchcraft practice, police said Tuesday. The deceased was identified as Tikam Behera of...

Berhampur: A local court in Ganjam district has sentenced two persons to life imprisonment after convicting them in a 2024-murder case of a villager registered at Gopalpur police station. The convicts were identified as Pradeep Das (28), and Narayan Das (40) of Teragounj village. District...

Berhampur: Police are yet to arrest the accused involved in the brutal assault on a 27-year old youth Umesh Rath of Bijipur on the busy Giri Road in Berhampur, even after 24 hours of the incident. However, as per Berhampur SP Saravana Vivek M, four...

Berhampur: A man and his female friend were assaulted with sticks by a group of people in Odisha's Berhampur city, triggering outrage and Leader of Opposition in the state Assembly Naveen Patnaik alleging that 'goonda raj' was prevailing in the state under the BJP government....

Bhubaneswar: Odisha reeled under intense heatwave conditions Tuesday, with 21 places recording temperatures of 40 degrees Celsius or above. The industrial town of Jharsuguda in the western region was the hottest place in the state Tuesday at 44.8 degrees Celsius, followed by Hirakud at 44...

Sambalpur: A man wanted in several criminal cases was injured in an exchange of fire with police in Odisha's Sambalpur district Tuesday evening, an officer said. The injured miscreant was identified as Bunty Suna, a criminal involved in multiple cases of firearms offences, robbery and...

Bhubaneswar/Berhampur: The family members of Anjarana Ramaya, the Odisha man who was killed in a Ukrainian drone attack in Moscow region, were worried about when his body would reach home from Russia. While the family accused both the agency, through which Ramaya got the job,...

Bhubaneswar/Bhawanipatna: A 47-year-old Roads and Buildings (R&B) engineer, who entered government service nearly 27 years ago with a modest monthly salary of Rs 6,000, has come under the scanner of Odisha Vigilance for allegedly amassing assets worth crores of rupees disproportionate to his known sources...

Berhampur: Biju Janata Dal (BJD) President and Leader of Opposition (LoP) in Odisha Assembly Naveen Patnaik Tuesday targeted the state government over the law and order situation following the brutal public assault on a couple in Berhampur. Taking to his X handle, Patnaik alleged that...

Berhampur: Ganjam district administration Tuesday launched a campaign with aim of making the district plastic-free through weekly cleanliness drives across all panchayats. As part of the 'Ama Ganjam, Swachha Ganjam' campaign, sanitation drives were conducted in 503 panchayats across 22 blocks of the district. The...