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The party has fielded, Purnachandra Mohapatra from the Barabati-Cuttack Assembly seat, while Sudhanshu Nayak has been named party candidate for the Bhandaripokhari seat.

MLA Mohan Majhi staged a sit-in at Keonjhar Police Station, alleging misconduct by IIC Trinath Sethi. Hit by drinking water crisis, residents of Raisuan and Gopinathpur had earlier blocked NH-20 and sought resolution through Majhi.

Odisha BJD president Manmohan Samal alleged that there have been massive irregularities in the procurement of rice. He alleged corruption of more than Rs 1 lakh crore in paddy procurement by the BJD government in the State.

Naveen Patnaik, the BJD president and Odisha Chief Minister, announced the party's final list of candidates for the upcoming Assembly elections on Thursday.

Shah exuded confidence that the low voter turnout in the first two phases of Lok Sabha Election 2024 will not affect NDA’s ‘400 Paar’ mission and they are ‘well on track’ to achieve that.

Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik filed his nomination for the Kantabanji Assembly seat, aiming for a sixth term. This strategic move comes as he also contests from Hinjili, with the election seeing a potential major contest between BJD and Congress.

Yellow warning has been issued to as many as 11 districts.

With the mercury continuously hovering over 40 degree Celsius and people succumbing to sunstroke in Odisha including one in the district, patients and their attendants are allegedly left in a lurch sans shelter and drinking facilities on the hospital premises.

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The District Collector reportedly disengaged Puspanjali Mohanty, the Community Resource Person(CRP) of Talasanga gram panchayat under the Mahakalapara block, and Narmada Basantia, the CRP of Marshaghai block, from the service.

As per reports, a transfer order has been issued for lecturer Ananta Kishore Jena when the university is struggling due to a lack of adequate number of teaching staff. The institution, which is supposed to have 21 lecturers, has only seven.

While residents in some parts of the State are still depending on the muddy water of the ponds to quench their thirst, people in other parts have staged road blockades as they have been deprived of basic amenities like drinking water facilities by the administration.

Students were allegedly explained through the phone call that as the BJD government has provided them with the scholarship, they should vote for the party.

In the Dhenkanal Assembly seat, BJD candidate Sudhir Samal has mounted an intense campaign with the help of his son Jagdish and nephew Abinash. Incidentally, Abinash is also fighting the poll as BJD’s MP nominee from the Dhenkanal parliamentary seat. 

Following a court order, the Commissionerate Police had earlier tried to ascertain the owners of the seized vehicles.  Some owners were identified and their vehicles were handed over to them by examining their credentials and documents.