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  After Maha Kumbh Mela, Adani Group To Offer Seva At Puri Rath Yatra

  Following its extensive, mostly volunteer-driven initiative to feed the masses during the Maha Kumbh Mela in Prayagraj earlier this year, the Adani Group has now shifted its focus to another of India's most revered religious festivals - the Rath Yatr

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  "Write In Capital Letters": High Court On Doctors' "Zigzag Handwriting"

  The Orissa High Court has directed the state government to issue a circular asking doctors to write all prescriptions and medico-legal reports in legible handwriting, if possible, in capital letters or in a typed form.

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  After 34 Years, Puri Jagannath Temple Treasury To Be Opened For Inspection

  This dark room laden with treasure has remained shut since 1984. Someone entering it now will need an oxygen cylinder. For 34 years, the door of the ratna bhandar or treasury of the 12th century Jagannath temple in Puri, has not seen light. But tomorrow, 10 people will unlock the room and step inside to check its structural integrity under c...

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  84 New Courts, Jails in Orrisa to Have Video Conferencing Facilities

  Orissa High Court today stressed on the use of video conferencing facilities to produce the accused under judicial custody in courts and help to improve the judicial administration through e-courts project.

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  2 Dead, 20 Injured in Stampede During Rath Yatra in Puri

  Two women have been killed and 20 others injured in a stampede during the Rath Yatra in Odisha's temple city of Puri today.

• Two securitymen injured in landmine explosion in Bhubaneswar

  Two security men were injured when landmines planted by Maoists exploded on Tuesday during a combing operation in Orissa's Kandhamal district, police said.Three landmines exploded during the combing operation by the Special Operation Group (SOG) in Sonepur Ghati forest of Daring badi area, SP (Kandhamal) J N Pankaj said.Two claymore mines were also...

• Maoists blast tracks in Orissa, goods train service disrupted

  Maoists today damaged railway tracks by setting off landmines in Orissa's Sundargarh district bordering Jharkhand, where the ultras have called a 24-hour bandh.The landmines damaged the tracks at two places in the Saranda forest areas bordering Jharkhand, about 80 km from here, GRP sources said.The goods train service which transports iron ore to t...

• Four arrested for setting steel executive on fire

  At least four people have been arrested for burning to death a steel factory executive in his vehicle in Orissa's Bolangir district, police said on Friday. "They were arrested late on Thursday," District Superintendent of Police AK Sarangi said. "Efforts were on to nab the other culprits," he added. A group of workers on Thursday set ablaze the veh...

• Orissa: Six year-old girl's body found

  The body of a six year-old girl was recovered by the police from Sundar Gouri reserve forest in Nilgiri sub-division of Balasore district on Monday.     It was being suspected that the girl was raped and beaten to death, the police said.     A distant uncle of the girl, with whom she was seen on bicycle was d...

• Orrisa: Worker killed on worksite

  A worker of Orissa Cement Ltd (OCL) was killed when he fell from a pole of the conveyor belt at its Lanjibarna mines under Rajgangpur police limits of Sundargarh district, about 45 km from Rourkela on Friday.   The worker, identified as Pabitra Badala succumbed to his injuries on the way to the Ispat General Hospital (IGH), Bijay Nanda, I...

• Rourkela: Consumer forum slaps penalty of Rs 1 lakh on doctor

  Sundargarh district consumer forum has found a Rajgangpur based doctor guilty of providing quality treatment to an expecting other leading to her death.The forum also ordered the doctor to pay rupees one lakh to the victim's husband within a month, failing which he has to pay twelve percent  interest on the amount.Forum president Md.Inkilab an...

• Orrisa: Police nab two antisocials, seize pistols

  Two antisocials of an inter-state gang were nabbed and pistols and cartridges were seized from their possession in a hideout near Konark Talkies in Rourkela on Tuesday night.Acting on a tip-off, a police team raided the hideout and overpowered one of the antisocials while the other one was captured after an exchange of fire.Police said, the antisoc...

• Village head arrested for helping Maoists

   A village head in Orissa was arrested in Malkangiri district on 15 June for allegedly helping the Maoists by playing the role of an informer, police said. Hari Hentala, head of Maoist-infested Chintanwada in Kalimela block of the tribal dominated district, was arrested by the Special Operation Group (SOG), Inspector in-Charge of Kalime...

• Village head arrested for helping Maoists

   A village head in Orissa was arrested in Malkangiri district on 15 June for allegedly helping the Maoists by playing the role of an informer, police said. Hari Hentala, head of Maoist-infested Chintanwada in Kalimela block of the tribal dominated district, was arrested by the Special Operation Group (SOG), Inspector in-Charge of Kalime...

• Orissa simmers as 17 die of heat wave

  The Rising summer heat has already claimed at least 17 lives across Orissa in the past three weeks.