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Bhubaneswar: The coordinator of Fakir Mohan (Autonomous) College's Internal Complaint Committee (ICC) Tuesday said the panel recommended removal of Samira Kumar Sahoo -- accused of sexually harassing a female student, leading to her self-immolation death -- from the post of Head of Integrated BEd. However,...

Bhubaneswar: A POCSO court in Bhubaneswar Tuesday sentenced a 58-year-old man to three years of rigorous imprisonment for sexually harassing a minor in August 2021. Special POCSO court judge Saroj Kumar Sahoo also imposed a fine of Rs 5,000 on the convict. If he failed...

Bhadrak: Two members of a family, including a 5-year-old boy, died due to electrocution in Odisha's Bhadrak district Tuesday evening, police said. The incident took place at Adivasi Sahi of Daishing village under the Bhadrak Rural Police Station limits, when the minor and his maternal...

Bhubaneswar: The Biju Janata Dal (BJD) has called for an eight-hour bandh in Odisha’s Balasore district Wednesday, demanding justice for a 20-year-old college student who died after setting herself ablaze over alleged inaction on a sexual harassment complaint. The shutdown will be observed from 6am...

Rourkela: Two persons, including a woman, were killed in separate incidents of wall collapse due to heavy rain in Odisha's Sundargarh district Tuesday, police said. The deceased were identified as Banadui Bage (70) and Damani Seth of Koida area in the district, a senior officer...

Cuttack: President Droupadi Murmu Tuesday said advanced technologies have brought about a vast change in people's thinking and working style, but advised them to be careful about the misuse of inventions like artificial intelligence and machine learning. Addressing the 13th annual convocation of Ravenshaw University...

New Delhi: The University Grants Commission (UGC) has set up a four-member fact-finding panel to look into the incident of self-immolation by a girl student on a college campus in Odisha's Balasore, officials said Tuesday. The 20-year-old second-year BEd student of Fakir Mohan (Autonomous) College,...

Balasore: The father of the deceased 20-year-old student of Odisha Tuesday held members of her college's Internal Complaint Committee (ICC) "solely responsible" for his daughter's death by self-immolation. He alleged that the ICC members prepared a "biased report" following her complaint of sexual harassment by...

Bhubaneswar: Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan Tuesday attacked Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, accusing him of indulging in "cheap politics" over the death of the college student in Odisha's Balasore district. Pradhan claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP have always taken concrete steps for...

Bhubaneswar/Balasore: Biju Janata Dal (BJD) Tuesday demanded a judicial inquiry into the "planned injustice" which led to the death of a college student in the state and asked the Odisha government to publicly tender an apology for "failure of the system". The second-year B.Ed student...