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Bhubaneswar/Bhawanipatna/Nuapada: With scanty rainfall in 19 blocks across eight districts of Odisha triggering drought-scare, the State government said that it is fully prepared to face any eventuality. The situation is so severe in these 19...

Puri: The Shree Jagannath Temple Administration (SJTA) will submit an affidavit by end of this month on steps taken after Supreme Court’s directives on Srimandir reforms. The decision was taken during a meeting between SJTA...

Bhubaneswar: Actress Priya Prakash Varrier’s cute winks might have turned her into an instant social media sensation but attempting something similar on college campuses in Odisha will surely drag you into trouble. The higher education department, in...

Cuttack/Khurda: Fifty cows were found dead and 50 others were rescued from a truck by police near Batamangala over bridge in Khurda town on Thursday night. As per reports, the cattle with legs tied and...

Bhubaneswar: IPS officer Satyajit Mohanty today assumed charge as the Police Commissioner of the twin cities of Cuttack and Bhubaneswar. He was appointed the new Police Commissioner of the Commissionerate Police on July 28. “My...

Malkangiri: A Class X girl student of Sikhapali Residential School in Malkangiri died under mysterious circumstance yesterday night. The deceased has been identified as Bandana Sarkar, who was found in a pool of blood with...

Jagatsinghpur: One person was killed and four others sustained injuries after a minor argument between two families of Baliakani village under Erasama police limits in Jagatsinghpur district turned into a violent clash late last night....

Burla: Alleging irregularities in medicine supply and delay in submission of pending bills, authorities of the Veer Surendra Sai Institute of Medical Science and Research (VIMSAR), Burla have issued notice to a medicine store on...

Bonai/Bhawanipatna: A minor boy was killed while several houses and crops were destroyed by wild elephants in two separate incidents in Sundergarh and Kalahandi districts on Wednesday. According to sources, a 10-year-old boy was trampled...

Bhubaneswar/Jatni: More than 30 persons have allegedly been defrauded of lakhs of rupees on false promises of jobs. A case has been registered at the Jatni police station and investigation is on, said police officials...

Puri: Tension erupted at the District Headquarters Hospital in the pilgrim town of Puri today following allegations of baby swapping. However, later it was found out that the babies got swapped due to confusion on...

Bhubaneswar: With the BJP and the BJD finding a common ground on the National Register of Citizens (NRC) issue, the Congress in Odisha seems to be visibly flustered. Congress alleged that it is a deviation...

Boudh: After locals of Krushnapali village under Brahmanipali panchayat of Boudh district refused to help an ostracised man in performing the last rites of his sister-in-law, the man was forced to carry the body on...

Cuttack: Five officials of the Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (IOCL) today met the special task force (STF) of Odisha Crime Branch and sought help in laying down pipelines. They alleged that some anti-social elements are...

Bhubaneswar: Sumona Karjee Mishra, a woman entrepreneur, launched a start-up Prantae Solutions in Bhubaneswar with an aim to translate high science and state-of-the-art technology into affordable devices and diagnostics solutions for rare and neglected health...

New Delhi: UIDAI, the authority which issues Aadhaar, said today that the deadlines for verifying bank accounts, PAN cards and mobile SIM cards with the biometric ID stand “valid and lawful”, and there is no...

Panchkula: Jailed Dera sect chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh’s close aide Honeypreet Insan was on Friday sent to 10 days’ judicial remand by a court in Panchkula. Honeypreet, whose real name is Priyanka Taneja, has...

Beijing: Spanish tennis player Rafael Nadal on Sunday got the better of Australian Nick Kyrgios and beat him 6-2, 6-1 to clinch the China Open title for the second time in his career. Nadal, world...

London: Monarch Airlines, Britain’s longest-surviving airline brand, collapsed on Monday stranding tens of thousands of travellers and prompted the countrys biggest-ever peacetime repatriation effort. The airline has ceased trading and its 300,000 future bookings for...

New Delhi: The Narendra Modi government must immediately implement its election promise of announcing a Minimum Support Price (MSP) of one-and-half times the production cost as also a loan waiver for farmers, the CPI-M said...