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Bhubaneswar: The Crime Against Women and Children Wing (CAW&CW) of Odisha Police Tuesday asked all superintendents of police (SPs) to review pending and fresh grievances lodged by women and girls to prevent them from taking extreme steps such as suicide. Inspector General of Police, CAW&CW,...

Bhubaneswar: Two youths drowned in the Kathajodi river in Odisha's Cuttack Tuesday, police said. A group of young men, all aged 19 or 20, went to the riverbank in Purighat police station to get soil for making idols of Lord Ganesh, they said. During that...

Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi Tuesday said the Union Cabinet's approval for the establishment of two semiconductor units in Odisha will accelerate the state's growth in the sector. The CM expressed his gratitude to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw for...

Bhadrak: A college student was found dead in Odisha's Bhadrak district Tuesday, police said. The body of the woman, a first-year undergraduate student, was found in the bathroom of a private hostel where she lived, they said. She returned to the hostel from home Monday...

Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi Tuesday launched the Odisha Marine Biotechnology Research and Innovation Corridor (OMBRIC), an initiative to contribute to the field of environmental protection, science-based tourism, investment and employment of people in coastal areas. On the occasion, an MoU was signed between...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha government will this year bring a new Resettlement and Rehabilitation (R&R) Policy, which is likely to contain the provision of making land losers stakeholders in the projects. Odisha's Revenue and Disaster Management Minister Suresh Pujari Monday said that the new R&R policy will...

Bhubaneswar: A couple threatened to die by self-immolation along with their seven-year-old daughter near Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi's residence on Lower PMG Road in Bhubaneswar Tuesday, but were rescued by the police, an officer said. The family hails from Boudh district and was...

Kendrapara: A 15-year-old girl was allegedly raped by five people, including one of her close relatives, at a village in Odisha's Kendrapara district, police said Tuesday. All five accused have been detained and are being interrogated, an officer said. The 10th standard student lodged FIR...

Berhampur: Odisha Police have arrested a 52-year-old man, who had been on the run for the last 24 years after being accused in a murder case, an officer said Tuesday. Acting on a tip-off, police apprehended the man, identified as Udaya Pradhan, from Chennai Monday,...

Bhaderwah/Jammu: An army personnel was killed when his service rifle accidentally went off inside a camp in Doda district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said Tuesday. Sepoy Suresh Biswal was on guard duty when his colleagues heard gunfire from his post at Sarna camp in...