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The state consumer disputes redressal commission, Lucknow, on Thursday asked flight operator IndiGo to pay Rs 85.5 lakh as compensation and damages to the complainant Vinay Shankar Tiwari for 'deficiency in service and unfair trade practice'.

The disaster fighting arm of the state government like the Odisha Disaster Rapid Action Force (ODRAF) and fire service personnel will be equipped with high-tech facilities and get better training to handle disasters in a more effective way.

A trial court in Khurda on Friday rejected the anticipatory bail application of suspended BJD MLA from Chilika, Prashanta Kumar Jagadev, who was booked by Balugaon police for allegedly assaulting a BJP leader on September 8.

The Centre has relaxed export norms to allow Odisha sell more than 810 metric tonnes of red sanders wood, the trees of which had fallen during cyclone Titli in 2018. It is likely to fetch This is likely to fetch more than Rs 400 crore to the state exchequer.

Chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Friday stressed on removing intermediaries from the agri-supply chain that will ensure linking farmers directly to market and help increasing their income.

BJP MLA Pratibha Shukla and her husband and former MP Anil Shukla Warsi on Thursday sat on a dharna at Vikas Bhawan demanding strict action against an employee of the project director’s office. The employee is accused of demanding Rs 5,000 in the name of issuing an electric tri-cycle to a physically challenged person under MLA Fund.

For the past 18 years, Chandrashekar Gowda (48) of Noojalu in Sullia taluk of Karnataka's Dakshina Kannada district, has been living out of a Fiat car parked on the edge of a jungle, eking out his livelihood by weaving and selling baskets.

Villagers of Boinda in Angul district of Odisha have urged the Centre to speed up the work of Cuttack-Angul section and Sambalpur-Angul section of the National Highway-55 (previously NH-42).

The district police probing the case of of Arbaaz Mullah, who was allegedly murdered over his relationship with a woman from another religion, have found that a Hindutva leader and members belonging to Sri Rama Sene Hindustan received a contract to kill him from the parents of woman.

The number of Covid-19 cases crossed the 1-lakh mark with 1,02,629 infections recorded on Thursday in Mizoram, which has a population of 10,91,014 according to Census 2011 and 12.6 lakh projected population in 2021.

The family members of Shakh Farid and Maynal Hoque, who were killed in police firing during the Dholpur eviction, have filed FIRs with Darrang police seeking “inquiry and justice”.

Mangaldoi MP Dilip Saikia, a member of the mega farming project sponsored by the state government at Dholpur, which has been at the vortex of a controversy over land reclamation recently, has said of the 77,000 bighas of land in Dholpur area, they can cultivate on 35,000-40,000 bighas of land.

A court here on Thursday sent model Rajkanya Baruah to daylong police custody, even as police summoned the authorities and a neurosurgeon of a private hospital, from where the model was arrested on Wednesday.

The upward climb in fuel prices in Assam continued unabated on Thursday, burning a hole in the pockets of the common people, whose monthly budget is already reeling under the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Following the suicide of a 19-year-old nursing student in Mangaluru, Indian Psychiatric Society Karnataka Chapter (IPSKC) has urged medical institutions across the state to set up round-the-clock helplines to prevent such kinds of deaths.

A total of 295 Covid-19 positive cases and eight deaths reported in Assam on Thursday, informed the state health department.

In a big development after the recent raid by Punjab Transport Minister Amrinder Singh Raja Warring on an illegal bus stand in Ludhiana, height barriers have been installed on the entry and exit points of this stretch of land due to which buses will not be able to enter here anymore.

The city police swung into action to arrest two youths who allegedly assaulted a man late Wednesday night for speaking to women of a different faith.

Rajesh Prabhu, owner, Vaishnavi Express Cargo, was arrested and produced before a court here on Thursday. Based on his request to the court, he was sent back to hospital.

A high-tension wire snapped and fell in front of a posh commercial building at Bank More in Dhanbad on Thursday causing grievous burn injuries to four persons, including three family members. One of the victims is stated to be serious.

A prominent BJP leader has been booked under POCSO Act by Hazaribag police. He has gone into hiding but police are conducting raids, Hazaribag SP Manoj Ratan Chothe said. An FIR against him has been filed by the mother of a 13-year-old girl on Wednesday.

Five men were arrested with 2 kg opium and 2 kg brown sugar worth Rs 2 crore at Pitij village in Itkhori block on Thursday. Police also recovered Rs 7.57 lakh cash and a car from the arrested persons.

Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday announced the Centre’s approval to an over Rs 3,000-crore externally aided project (EAP) for building the eighth bridge over the Brahmaputra river near Guwahati and also performed the ‘bhoomi pujan’ for another EAP worth Rs 2,200 crore for a 120-MW hydel project in Assam’s Dima Hasao district.