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Tuesday, December 16, 2025
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Topic: Odisha

Former Odisha MLA who sought ‘central role’ for Priyanka in Congress expelled from party

Moquim's letter to Sonia suggested central role for Priyanka, core roles for Pilot and Tharoor, as Congress' presence 'shrinking geographically, organisationally, and even emotionally'.

Prohibitory orders imposed in Odisha villages following clash over boundary dispute

Villagers of Ostapur and Kotapalla under Baghamari police limits resorted to violence Wednesday night after a heated argument over a long-standing border dispute, police said.

8 arrested in Cuttack after violent clashes during Durga Puja immersion

Following the violence, additional Police Commissioner Bhola announced that internet restrictions have been extended for another 24 hours, with a curfew in place until 10 am Wednesday.

Cuttack violence: Curfew till 7 October, 60 police platoons deployed, internet services remain suspended

This comes after incident of stone pelting during the Durga Puja immersion, in which 25 people, including 8 policemen, were injured.

PM Modi flags off Amrit Bharat Express, unveils Rs 60,000 crore projects in Odisha

The projects span across telecommunications, railways, higher education, healthcare, skill development, and rural housing sectors, among others.

Secularism & right to propagate: Revisiting SC’s 1977 anti-conversion order after Justice Nariman remark

Former SC judge RF Nariman recently suggested top court revisit 1977 judgment in Reverend Stainislaus case which held that right to propagate does not include right to convert a person.

Fame to shame—Odisha civil services topper ‘caught taking Rs 15,000 bribe’

2019 topper Aswini Kumar Panda, posted as Tehsildar in Jajpur district, allegedly sought bribe & had his driver collect it from a man for giving approval for land mutation, conversion.

All 5 accused arrested in Odisha gangrape case

15-yr-old school girl was raped in Odisha's Kendrapara district. The prime accused was identified as Happy Mallick, the class 10 student’s paternal aunt.

Odisha girl who was set on fire laid to rest in native village, Deputy CM Parida present at burial

The 15-year-old girl's funeral was held amid heavy security, with around 100 police personnel deployed at the nondescript village on the bank of the Bhargavi river.

Mortal remains of Odisha girl who was set on fire to be airlifted to Bhubaneswar from AIIMS Delhi

Postmortem of the girl who was set on fire on 19 July in Balanga & succumbed to injuries a day ago at AIIMS has been done, and body handed over to her family.

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Top 10 picks of Serendipity Art Festival 2025 by Rohit Chawla

Through film, textile, scent, sound, and gesture, spectators are invited to descend into an immersive environment where inherited knowledge seeps through material and form.

India’s merchandise exports to US rising month-on-month despite Trump tariffs, govt data shows

November exports to the US saw 10% growth from the previous month. Overall, in the first 8 months this fiscal, the merchandise exports to the US touched has touched $59bn.

US clears $686-mn package to breathe fresh life into Pakistani F-16s

Of the total package, $649 million will be utilised for additional hardware, software, and support services, and the remaining for Major Defence Equipment (MDE).

India’s top airline just handed sarkar the keys. That’s IndiGo’s real ‘crime’

Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.