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The incident took place on National Highway-520 near Rimuli bypass, they said. (Representational) Keonjhar: At least six people, including four women, died in a road accident when two trucks rammed into their car in Champua area of Odisha’s Keonjhar district on Wednesday evening, police said. The incident took place on National Highway-520 near Rimuli bypass,…
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A court in Odisha on Friday sentenced a person to death for killing two persons. (Representational) Bhubaneswar: A court in Odisha’s Nayagarh district on Friday sentenced a person to death for killing two persons including an elderly woman in Odagaon area of the district in 2019. The convict was identified as Niranjan Mallik of Kushadhipa…
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Local fishermen have rescued 35 passengers and brought them to the bank. Bhubaneswar: At least two persons were killed and seven others were missing as a boat they were travelling in capsized in the Mahanadi River in Odisha’s Jharsuguda district on Friday, police said. The incident took place when the boat carrying around 50 passengers…
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The Congress and BJP declared their candidatures on Tuesday. Bhubaneswar: Chikiti Assembly constituency in Odisha’s Ganjam district is all set to witness a contest between two brothers in the forthcoming elections to be held on May 13. The brothers facing each other in the electoral battlefield are sons of former Odisha Assembly Speaker Chintamani Dyan…
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Orissa was rechristened as Odisha in 2011. New Delhi: President Droupadi Murmu on Monday extended greetings on Odisha Day, and said the resilient people of the state have made great contribution to the development of Odisha and the country. Odisha Day or ‘Utkala Dibasa’ marks the formation of Odisha as a separate state on this…
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Odisha has 21 parliamentary constituencies. (File) Bhubaneswar: Popular Odia filmstar and former Biju Janata Dal (BJD) MLA Akash Das Nayak joined the BJP in the presence of Odisha BJP state president Manmohan Samal at party headquarters in Bhubaneswar on Sunday. Akash Das Nayak, an Ollywood superstar, quit Biju Janta Dal (BJD) on Saturday, expressing his…
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Kolkata: The BJP named 18 of Odisha’s 21 lok Sabha seats on Sunday, after its seat sharing talks with the state’s ruling Biju Janata Dal of Naveen Patnaik fell through. Theb party has dropped four sitting MPs. Among those named are Union minister Dharmendra Pradhan and party spokesman Sambit Patra. Sambit Patra: The well-known BJP…
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The court also imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 on the convict (Representational) Baripada, Odisha: A 25-year-old man was sentenced to life imprisonment by a court in Odisha’s Mayurbhanj district on Saturday for raping a woman. The incident happened in the Moroda police station area in March 2021 when the woman, 22, had gone to…
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The BJP-BJD alliance collapsed in 2009 following failed seat-sharing talks. New Delhi: The ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) in Odisha has hinted at a potential alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ahead of the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. On Wednesday, leaders of the BJD convened for an extensive session at Naveen Niwas, the official…
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The workers alleged that the company had forcibly taken away their passports. Bhubaneswar: A group of 35 labourers from Odisha alleged that they were held captive by a company in Laos for which they were working. Urging the government to bring them back, the labourers in a video clip said the plywood company stopped its operations…
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