Malkangiri News
Reportedly, similar symptoms were seen in seven other infants who are currently being examined. The medical team which reached the village yesterday has collected blood samples and sent them to labs for test.
Gope surrendered and expressed desire to return to the social mainstream, the officer said.
In a shocking incident, a girl was allegedly stripped naked and filmed inside a school premises in Odisha's Malkangiri district.
Maoists killed a tribal man at a remote village in Malkangiri district suspecting him to be a police informer.
The Met department has also issued thunderstorm and lightning warning for as many as 27 districts in Odisha.
Yet another case of administrative apathy, this time in Odisha, came to fore when a man was compelled to carry the dead body of his infant in his hand.
A man belonging to the particularly vulnerable tribal groups (PVTG) Bonda tribe has alleged that he has to pay bribe to a doctor at the Malkangiri District Headquarters Hospital, for C-section delivery of his wife.
At least five tribals were severly beaten up by Maoists suspecting them as police informers and also for casting votes in the three-tire panchayat elections in Malkangiri district, police said today.
An average of 77 per cent of the electorate today cast their votes amidst tight security in the last and final phase of the three-tier Panchayat election in Odisha.
Barring stray incidents, the second phase of the three-tier panchayat polls concluded peacefully across Odisha on Wednesday with 73 percent voter turnout.
Odisha Congress vice-president Pradeep Majhi and other party leaders today ended their six-day hunger strike after submitting a memorandum to Governor S C Jamir and announced to intensify its stir against the government's "anti-tribal" atittude.
Opposition Congress and BJP today separately called for a bandh in the Japanese Encephalitis-hit Malkangiri district of Odisha ahead of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik's one-day visit scheduled tomorrow, even as ruling BJD criticised their move calling it one "challenging democracy".
The Maoist supporters came laden in trucks to surrender before Malkangiri Superintendent of Police Mitrabhanu Mahapatra.
As many as 94 Maoist supporters and 52 militia members have surrendered before Malkangiri police.
Mosquitoes that feed on infected animals can become infected with the virus and then transmit it to humans.
Malkangiri served as a major transit belt of the Naxals.
The Naxals were neutralised in a joint operation by the Odisha Police and their counterparts from Andhra Pradesh.
Three more persons died of Japanese Encephalitis virus on Wednesday in Odisha's Malkangiri district, taking the death toll to 48.
The death toll due to Japanese Encephalitis has reached 38 in Odisha's Malkangiri district while the disease continues to spread its tentacles to other districts.
Currently, the vector-borne disease has claimed lives of 27 children in Odisha's Malkangiri district.
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