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Rourkela: Birendra Lakra heaved a sigh of relief on June 18 when he found his name in the 16-member Indian men’s hockey squad for the Tokyo Olympics. Though he has...

Bhubaneswar: A controversy over new memberships has hit the Bhubaneswar Club, Odisha’s premier recreational facility for the elites, leading to suspension of access rights to 274 new inductees. This has...

Bhubaneswar: Archaeologists in Odisha have discovered a fortified historic site at Durgadevi in Remuna tehsil of Balasore district. Traces of belongings found there are cultural deposits from Chalcolithic -- Bronze,...

Bhubaneswar: Sakya Tripathy, a biomedical engineer and a native of Cuttack city, had 15 volunteers, including high school students, come over to his place last Saturday to sanitise sleep apnea...

Bhubaneswar: The creation of 'Maa', the creator herself, snowballed into a major controversy in Odisha on Tuesday. Here we are talking about a Sambalpuri bandha saree, which grabbed the headlines...

Bhubaneswar: Weeks after the Odisha Bytes expose forced the state government to withdraw its decision to give away part of a school playground here to the IAS Officers’ Association, a...

What does Amit Rohidas have in common with hockey legend Dilip Tirkey? Well, both hail from Saunamara village in Balisankra block of Odisha’s Sundargarh district. No wonder Rohidas idolizes three-time...

Rourkela: From a remote village named Lulkidihi-Bahamnibahal of Sundargarh district’s Balisankra block to being a double Olympian -- Deep Grace Ekka has indeed come a long way. “It’s a great...

Bhubaneswar: Amid the COVID gloom, black fungus is gradually spreading its tentacles in Odisha with at least 73 patients afflicted by it in around a month. Odisha reported its first...

Bhubaneswar: There many interesting stories about this firebrand socialist leader George Fernandes, who was defence minister of India during the Kargil War in 1999. However, he would be most remembered for...