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Following a tip-off, a team from Bolangir Forest Division raided Kotagaon village under Tushura police limits in the district and arrested wildlife smuggler Mukesh Manahira. Upon questioning him, he revealed the whereabouts of his accomplice in the neighbouring Boudh district.

Initial reports said that the jawans were carrying out a search operation after getting information regarding the movement of Maoists in the area.

Out of the 12 companies of SOG, seven have been engaged from Kandhamal and five companies are from Boudh. As many as 300 jawans are now carrying out the combing operation following the exchange of fire with the red rebels in the same area on Thursday.

A six-member team of the IT department came in a car in the morning and carried important documents in six bags.  

The massive I-T raids on multiple divisions of Boudh Distilleries Private Limited, a company manufacturing liquor, are underway for the second day on Thursday.

The hospital authorities informed the fire services personnel following the blaze. Subsequently, a team arrived at the spot and doused the flame.

Like previous years, traditionalists on one side and rationalists and humanists on the other cited their respective logic over some taboos related to the lunar eclipse that fell on Full Moon day on Saturday.

The incident has triggered resentment among the students, guardians and local people.

As per reports, he was apprehended by Odisha Vigilance while accepting bribe of Rs 8,000 from a complainant to help his cousins in a case registered earlier in Kiakata PS.

As per reports, Baunsuni police station had registered a case against the trio for cheating the e-commerce company to the tune of Rs 38 lakh in June. Kantamal police registered a case against them on July 4 for swindling Rs 1.94 lakh.

As the day broke, police and health department personnel visited all the egg shops in the town and asked them to shut down their shops. They even took inventory of eggs of shopkeepers to verify later if they had supplied to anybody secretly.

The BJP activists also raised ‘Pandian Go Back’ slogans and tried to storm into the 5T Secretary’s meeting venue. However, the activists were stopped by the police which led to a brief scuffle.

As per reports, the bus was on its way to Raipur from Berhampur when the mishap occurred. All the passengers of the bus were reportedly unhurt.

The deceased have been identified as Jagannath Meher and Prashant. An Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) and another home guard were critically injured in the mishap.

As per initial reports, the speeding car entered the house after its driver lost control of the steering wheel and skidded off the road on NH-57. The SUV was coming from Charichhak area.