Baripada/Puri, March 28 At least three people died and three others were injured as Nor'wester storms caused widespread damage in Odisha's Mayurbhanj and Puri districts, police said on Saturday.Strong winds followed by thunderstorms lashed the Mayurbhanj district headquarters, Baripada, around...
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cyclone
fatalities
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mayurbhanjdistrict
motorcycles
nor'wester storm
odisha
property damage
puri district
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Bhubaneswar, March 22 – The Odisha Police arrested five people on Sunday in two separate cases involving the rape and murder of a 17-year-old girl in the Dhenkanal district and the killing of a 14-year-old girl in the Mayurbhanj district.In the first case, the police in Dhenkanal district...
Baripada, March 22 A private tutor was arrested in Odisha's Mayurbhanj district for allegedly killing his 14-year-old student, whose family had warned him after becoming aware of his advances, police said on Sunday.The 39-year-old man was the girl's private tutor. When her family learned of...
Baripada (Odisha) March 20 Normal life was disrupted in the Rairangpur area of Odisha on Friday due to a bandh called by the Mayurbhanj Adivasi Ekata Manch (Tribal Unity Forum) in protest against the arrest of 34 tribal people following a clash with police personnel during a protest on March 13...
Bhubaneswar, March 19 – The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of the Odisha Police has arrested a businessman for his alleged involvement in a multi-crore fraud case related to the embezzlement of funds from the District Mineral Foundation Trust (DMFT) in the Mayurbhanj district, a senior EOW...
bank of india
bank of maharashtra
brajesh mishra
cheque cloning
district mineral foundation trust
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embezzlement
fraud
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mahakal construction
mayurbhanjdistrict
mishra enterprises
odisha police
punjab & sindh bank
zilla parishad
Bhubaneswar, March 19 Diamond-bearing stones have been detected in the Nuapada district of Odisha, Steel and Mines Minister Bibhuti Bhusan Jena told the assembly on Thursday.Technical and economic assessment work is underway, he said, in response to a question by MLA Sanatan Mahakud.The...
Bhubaneswar, March 19 The BJD on Thursday urged the National Commission for Scheduled Tribes (NCST) to take suo motu cognizance of the alleged molestation of a girl in Odisha's Mayurbhanj district and atrocities against tribal women in the state.In a memorandum to the NCST, the BJD expressed...
Bhubaneswar, March 17 Odisha Revenue and Disaster Management Minister Suresh Pujari on Tuesday directed the Mayurbhanj district administration to expedite relief measures for people affected by a "cyclonic wind" in several villages.The "cyclonic wind", typically a storm with strong winds...
cyclone
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disaster relief
drinking water
evacuation
government assistance
house damage
karanjia block
mayurbhanjdistrict
medical support
odisha
public health
relief camps
sdrf
wind damage
Bhubaneswar, March 17 Odisha Minister of Forests, Environment and Climate Change, Ganesh Ram Singhkhuntia, on Tuesday informed the assembly that 344 wild elephants have died in the state due to various reasons, including poaching and accidents, from April 2022 to March 10, 2026.In a written...
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cuttack district
dhenkanal district
elephants
environment
forest protection
forests
government response
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odisha
poaching
sambalpur district
sundargarh district
wild elephants
wildlife conservation
Baripada, March 15 Two people were killed, five others seriously injured, and more than 200 houses damaged after a nor'wester struck Odisha's Mayurbhanj district on Sunday, officials said.More than 200 houses in 12 villages were damaged in the nor'wester. Due to the strong winds, several trees...
Bhubaneswar, March 14 – A Special CBI Court in Bhubaneswar has convicted and sentenced a former Assistant Superintendent of Post Offices from Baripada, Odisha's Mayurbhanj district, to four years of rigorous imprisonment with a fine of Rs 1 lakh for demanding a bribe of Rs 2 lakh, an official...
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bank employee
bribery
central investigation agency
corruption
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financial crime
investigation
kamrup rural district
loan officer
mayurbhanjdistrict
odisha
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state bank of india
Baripada (Odisha), March 13 At least 12 police personnel were injured, including three seriously, in an attack by a mob when law enforcement officers tried to disperse protesters who were blocking NH-220 in Odisha's Mayurbhanj district on Friday, a senior officer said.The protest was triggered...
Bhubaneswar, March 12 In a reshuffle affecting several IAS officers, the Odisha government appointed Prathamesh Arvind Rajeshirke as the collector of Malkangiri district on Thursday.According to a notification, Malkangiri collector Somesh Kumar Upadhyay has been transferred as director...
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cooperative societies
ganjam district
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ias officers
kalahandi district
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odisha government
paradeep
small industries corporation
textiles and handlooms
zilla parishad
Bhubaneswar, March 11 – A day after resigning from the Biju Janata Dal (BJD), former Balasore MP Rabindra Kumar Jena formally joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) here on Wednesday.Jena, along with several other BJD leaders and over 100 of his associates from Balasore, Mayurbhanj, and...
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bhadrak district
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biju janata dal
bjd
bjp
manmohan samal
mayurbhanjdistrict
odisha politics
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rajya sabha elections
regional development
subasini jena
succession planning
Bhubaneswar, March 11 A day after quitting the opposition BJD, former MP Rabindra Kumar Jena joined the ruling BJP in Odisha on Wednesday, citing the lack of a succession plan in the regional party.Jena, along with his supporters from Balasore, Bhadrak, and Mayurbhanj districts, joined the...
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bhadrak district
bharatiya janata party
bhubaneswar
biju janata dal
indian politics
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mayurbhanjdistrict
mohan charan majhi
narendra modi
naveen patnaik
odisha
political party
rabindra kumar jena
state politics
succession planning
Baripada (Odisha), March 11 Officers from the Odisha forest department arrested a man on Wednesday for allegedly setting fire inside the Similipal Wildlife Sanctuary in the Mayurbhanj district, officials said.While patrolling the Nedam forest on Tuesday evening, staff from the Pithabata North...
Bhubaneswar, March 10 Ahead of launching the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Odisha on April 1, the Election Commission of India organized a four-day state-level training programme for election officials on Tuesday.The SIR is a comprehensive voter list revision designed...
balasore district
bargarh district
booth level agents
deogarh district
election officials training
electoral roll revision
enumeration forms digitization
jharsuguda district
keonjhar districtmayurbhanjdistrict
odisha election commission
revenue officers training institute
sambalpur district
sundergarh district
voter list update
Koraput/Baripada (Odisha), March 7 Five school students, including two girls, drowned in separate incidents in Odisha's Koraput and Mayurbhanj districts on Saturday, police said.Three tenth-grade students drowned in the backwaters of the Kolab reservoir near their school in the afternoon...
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kaptipada police station
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koraput district, odisha
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nachhipur, mayurbhanj
navodaya vidyalaya
odisha
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teenage students
Baripada, March 3 A boy died and another was injured after they were beaten up by villagers over suspicion of goat theft in Odisha's Mayurbhanj district, police said on Tuesday.The incident took place at Indokholi Herogoda village under the Tiring police station in the district on Monday...
Baripada (Odisha), March 2 One person died and three others were seriously injured when a car in which they were travelling crashed into a roadside tree in Odisha's Mayurbhanj district on Monday morning, police said.The accident occurred on National Highway-220 near Gidhibas Chhack, within the...