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Cuttack: A female elephant died at Dalijoda Reserve Forest under Choudwar police limits in Odisha’s Cuttack district today. The pachyderm was allegedly shot by a poacher four days ago at a forest near Banjhiama village under Mangarajpur…
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Bhubaneswar:  While Monsson Session of the Odisha Legislative Assembly is set to begin tomorrow, total 42 MLAs have so far contracted COVID-19 with one more legislator testing positive for the virus today.Swab sample of MLA Umakanta…
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Bhubaneswar: Odisha Higher Education Department today announced the first merit list for admission into various Undergraduate (UG) courses in the state for 2020-21 academic year. Out of the 2,13,959 students applied for admission, 1,58,540…
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Bhubaneswar:  After reporting over 4,000 COVID-19 positive cases for around 15 days, Odisha is witnessing a slight fall in the number of cases since  yesterday.  Today, the state registered 3235 cases, following which the tally surged to…
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Keonjhar: Family feud led to a tragic end after a man beat his wife to death in Joda police station area of Keonjhar district late last night. However, police have detained accused Kamlesh Yadav, a resident of Ward-9 in Kamarjoda…
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Bhubaneswar: Bringing laurels to Odisha, Dr Jyotirmayee Dash from Jagatsinghpur district has won the prestigious Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology for the year 2020 in the field of Chemical Sciences.Dash’s team works…
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Bhubaneswar: As many as 16 COVID-19 patients undergoing treatment succumbed to the deadly virus in the last 24 hours in Odisha. With this, the death toll increased to 813 in the State. The fresh deaths were reported from 11 districts in…
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Sonepur: A man who had gone missing was found hanging from a tree in Singhijuba Reserve Forest under Binika police limits in Odisha’s Sonepur district. The deceased has been identified as Mangulu Bhuye (45) of Saraguna village in the area.…
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Bhubaneswar: After being closed for more than 6 months due to the COVID-19 situation, tourist spots in Odisha are all set to welcome visitors from the month of October, informed Tourism Minister Jyoti Prakash Panigrahi today.COVID-19 norms…
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Baripada: Superstitious practice for curing ailments continues unabated in Odisha as an one-month-old baby girl was allegedly branded with hot iron by her uncle at Tikarpada village under Khunta police limits in Mayurbhanj district.…
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