The halting of trains at night for the past two-and-half months in areas bordering Jharkhand, West Bengal and Orissa fearing Maoist attacks has been causing immense inconvenience to people in the region.
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Cuttack, Aug. 11: The deadly combination of diesel and kerosene by owners of commercial fleet is polluting the city’s clean air and exposing residents to the risk of severe respiratory ailments and life-threatening diseases.
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Police on Wednesday were baffled when an MMS sex scandal surfaced in a non-descript village, Larambha, within Patnagarh police station limits of Balangir district.
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When his pleas for medical assistance failed to cut ice, an HIV+ man threatened to kill himself in a district where 20 AIDS deaths have been reported so far
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In what could be a first-of-its-kind project in the country, the Toyota group has started working on establishing a rare earth extraction plant project in Ganjam district.
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Worried over the unabated deaths of elephants in Orissa, the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) on Wednesday constituted yet another committee to study the situation and submit report within a month.
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Four new swine flu cases were detected in the state on Wednesday. Among the 10 samples sent for H1N1 test to the Regional Medical Research Centre, four were detected positive.
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Worried over the string of swine flu deaths, the state government on Wednesday constituted a technical committee, headed by the director, Regional Medical Research Centre, to prescribe restrictions on use of vaccine and also recognize vulnerable groups which shall be provided vaccines free of cost.
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