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Bhubaneswar: A poem written by seven-year-old Odia girl Olivia Bhadra, who studies in Charles Darwin Primary School, Norwich (UK), has become part of an anthology ‘Friendly Monsters’. The poem, titled...

Cuttack: The Orissa High Court on Wednesday directed the state government to increase the daily allowances of home guards to Rs 533 and complete the process of payment in three...

Rourkela: Police have detained a woman on charges of impersonating an IPS officer and cheating a two-wheeler dealer in Uditanagar of the city. The woman, identified as Sarmistha Behera of...

Cuttack: The COVID-19 tally in Cuttack city touched 2678 on Wednesday with an overnight addition of 162 fresh cases. According to Cuttack Municipal Corporation (CMC), 26 among the new infections...

Cuttack: Even as gangster Sakil is lodged in jail, his gang members are carrying on criminal activities in the city. Four of them were arrested in an extortion case on...

Bhubaneswar: The COVID-19 tally in the Odisha capital crossed 6000-mark on Wednesday with the highest single-day spike of 370 cases in the last 24 hours. Among them, 204 are quarantine...

Bhubaneswar: A day after conducting simultaneous raids, Vigilance sleuths on Wednesday arrested Abhaya Jena, former forest range officer of Balugaon in Odisha's Khurda district. Notably, disproportionate assets to the tune...

Bhubaneswar: The regional centre of India Meteorological Centre here has issued heavy rainfall warning for the twin cities of Bhubaneswar and Cuttack till 8.30 am on August 20. While issuing...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Crime Branch has issued an advisory cautioning the state police about a fake job website that has been duping youths of the state on false promises of providing...

Sambalpur: In order to check the spread of COVID-19 due to mass gathering on the occasion of Ganesh Puja and Nuakhai festivals, Sction 144 of CrPC has been imposed in...