Odisha

Tension gripped BJB (Autonomous) College after six students were injured in a campus clash with outsiders on Monday.

Anticipation and excitement are palpable among hockey fans in the state with just 100 days to go for the Men's Hockey World Cup at Kalinga Stadium here in November.

The Bhubaneswar Smart City Limited (BSCL) has floated a tender for construction of the second integrated public service centre that will come up at Bapuji Nagar.

Four persons claiming themselves as listed brokers of Bombay Stock Exchange were arrested by Khandagiri police on Monday for allegedly duping Rs 17 lakh from a person promising him 400 per cent interest through foreign investment.

The court of assistant sessions judge-cum-chief judicial magistrate, Cuttack, on Monday sentenced Sushant Dhal Samant, the elder gangster sibling, to five years in jail in a 19-year-old illegal possession and use of arms case.

Malkangiri continues to remain cut off from the state headquarters in Bhubaneswar with Pangam Bridge in Mathili block on NH-326 following heavy rain that lashed south Odisha on Saturday.

The state Congress, which on Monday began the exercise to select its candidates for the coming general elections, will declare its first list in 15 days.

A 35-year-old woman died at SCB Medical College and Hospital's special dengue ward, taking the death toll due to the vector-borne disease to three since the opening of the ward on May 26.

The state government has arranged special trains to bring back Odias trapped in flood-hit Kerala and sent a team to monitor the evacuation process.

The environment ministry has given clearance for construction of additional spillways for the safety of the Hirakud dam.