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This was the maiden appearance of Majhi at the country’s highest policy deliberation body after being sworn-in as the new CM of Odisha.

As per reports, a no-confidence motion has been brought against Junagarh NAC Chairman Mukesh Agarwal and a meeting in this regard will be held on August 1.

Several MLAs have admitted the inconvenience and expressed their disappointments over the development. Some of the legislators are of the opinion that the situation can be resolved by making a special restroom for the PSOs on the Assembly premises.

To the utter dismay of people, cows and dogs have been frequently roaming in the main lobby and runway of the airport. 

A Class X student allegedly committed suicide by consuming pesticide due to humiliation after an FIR was lodged against him and his father by a woman in the village who was hit by the cricket ball.

Odisha CM Mohan Majhi met West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee in Delhi during the NITI Aayog meeting to discuss the potato supply crisis. The halt on exports from West Bengal had caused prices to soar in Odisha. Following discussions, potato procurement resumed, bringing prices down.

A few days after journalist Madhumita Parida was found dead on railway tracks in Bhubaneswar, her husband Sridhar Jena, an Indian Air Force officer, has been arrested under new sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita. Her family alleges suicide due to Jena's illicit relationships. Police are investigating further with forensic analysis of Jena's mobile phone.

Eighteen villages in Nakamamudi panchayat, Korukunda block, Malkangiri district, are cut off due to a landslide at Bayapada ghati after heavy rain. Locals built a temporary bridge. Rain hampers restoration efforts. This is a recurring issue; last year saw similar disruptions.

Skyrocketing potato prices in Odisha have led to the tuber disappearing from popular dishes like Cuttack's Dahibara Aloodum. Despite Food and Supplies Minister Krushna Chandra Patra's appeal to traders, prices remain high at Rs 50-60 per kg due to halted exports from West Bengal.

In a joint operation, police and Forest department officials arrested six timber mafias using drones in Santarapur village, Keonjhar district. They seized wooden logs worth over Rs 50 lakh. The operation, led by DFO HD Dhanraj, faced resistance but succeeded due to strategic changes under the new BJP government.

A Kolkata-based trader, Mithun Mandal, was allegedly robbed of 17 kg fine silver and Rs 5 lakh in cash while travelling in a private bus near Bhejiput chhak at Khallikote in Berhampur on Friday night. The robbery occurred when the bus halted for snacks and four unknown miscreants fled with his bags. Police are investigating the case.

The Odisha government has formed a Transfer and Posting Committee to manage the transfers of Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), Assistant Commandants, and Additional Superintendents. This move reduces the Director General of Police's (DGP) supervisory powers. The new committee, chaired by the Additional Chief Secretary Home Department, includes members from the Home Department and DG/IG of Police.

Four individuals, Deepak Behera, Kabiraj Malli, Chaitanya Malli, and Sibaji Malli, were arrested in Paralakhemundi, Odisha for kidnapping and scamming people with a fake note printing machine. The police seized the tin box used as the counterfeit device after rescuing a kidnapping victim from Chilika area following a complaint by Mini Lima.

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