News from Odisha

Masquerading as policemen, the three had looted jewellery and cash over Rs 3 lakh at two places under Badambadi Police limits. They belong to the infamous 'Irani gang.' Two of them hail from Maharashtra and the other is from Madhya Pradesh.

Besides attacking the officials, the miscreant duo also vandalised office equipment like computer, laptop, printer, TV and other furniture.

BJD candidate Jagannath Saraka, BJP candidate Jagannath Nudruka, Congress nominee Nilamadhab Hikaka and Independent candidate Nilamadhab Ulaka are in the fray in the Bissam Cuttack Assembly seat in Rayagada.

For the first time since the state was formed as a language-based independent state in 1936, language, literature and culture are going to dominate the poll narrative. 

As a part of its strategy, the grand old party has lined up prominent and veteran leaders like Priyanka Gandhi, AICC president Mallikarjun Kharge and Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy, who will hit the campaign trail for their party nominees in the south, where a major chunk of the electorate are Telugu speaking people. 

Family members of Param Manding, wife of Satama Manding, contacted for an ambulance. But the ambulance couldn’t come to their village as it doesn’t have a motorable road.

The DGP said, "There is provision of airlifting of manpower and material to inaccessible areas. Some booths are inside the Sunabeda sanctuary. Poll parties will be air-dropped there.”

Because of the delay in the announcement of the names of candidates for Nilagiri Assembly seat, the aspiring candidates of BJP. BJD and Congress are in two minds about launching their full-fledged campaigning.

Sarat Mohanty, a resident of Saharda village under Remuna block and Jyotismita, a resident of Chhanapuar exchanged wedding vows. The couple is hard of hearing as well as speaking. Their parents had never thought of finding them a match.

In 2020, the then BDO of Jashipur block had lodged a written complaint against 25 persons at Jashipur police station.

IMD today informed that there will be no major change in the maximum temperature for the next three to four days. Red warning for severe heat wave conditions has been issued for several districts.

A resident of Daisahi, a village on the foothills of Similipal said, "For the last three to four days, fires are burning at many places. The fires are adding to the atmospheric heat which is affecting life here.”

Two fire fighting teams have been pressed into service and efforts are underway to douse the flames.

Four bikers were killed in two separate accidents in Odisha. In Sambalpur, two youths died after their bike collided with a tanker. In Jajpur, another pair was killed by a hit-and-run on NH-16.

The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of Bhubaneswar arrested Pomesh Tembhare, involved in a Rs 9.6 crore Bank of India cheque cloning scam. The funds were illicitly transferred from the District Mineral Foundation Trust's account, Mayurbhanj, through forged cheques to multiple entities and further layered across various accounts.