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Odisha BJD MLA apologises for forcing PWD engineer to do sit-ups, claims he did it to save officer from angry people

Newly elected BJD MLA Saroj Kumar Meher, who drew flak after a video purportedly showing him forcing a junior PWD engineer to do sit-ups in public went viral, Thursday apologised for his action

Odisha Elections 2019: Over 57% voting till 6 pm in five Lok Sabha and 35 Assembly seats; repoll sought in four booths

About 57.81 percent of the over 76.93 lakh voters exercised their franchise till 6 pm in the five Odisha Lok Sabha and 35 Assembly seats, some of them in Naxal-affected areas, in the second phase on Thursday

Narendra Modi in Odisha: Naveen Patnaik to skip event in Bolangir where PM will launch infrastructure projects

Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik will not attend Prime Minister Narendra Modi's official programme during his one-day tour to the state Tuesday as he would be busy in state government programmes, official sources said.

Deworming exercise goes wrong in Odisha school, 51 kids fall ill after consuming tablets supplied by health department

The children were soon shifted to the Sainthala Community Health Centre for treatment, from where they were discharged by evening.

Odisha parcel bomb case: Lecturer masterminded blast after being replaced as college principal by victim's mother

The police on Wednesday claimed to have cracked the wedding gift parcel bomb case of Bolangir, Odisha alleging that a college lecturer masterminded it for being replaced by the mother of one of the two persons killed in the blast in February.

Odisha: Groom killed, bride injured in Bolangir district as wedding gift explodes; probe underway

A newly married man and his grandmother were killed and his wife was critically injured when a gift packet the couple had received at their wedding reception

Odisha to focus on Maoist-hit southern districts

The decision was taken at a meeting of the Unified Command presided over by chief secretary JK Mohapatra on Monday night.