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Cuttack: President Droupadi Murmu Tuesday said that India is moving from women’s empowerment to women-led development. Addressing the 13th annual convocation of Ravenshaw University in Cuttack, she said female students outperforming their male classmates in 21 out of 27 departments of the varsity this year...

Bhubaneswar/Balasore: Police have set up a swift trial initiative team to expedite the probe into the death of the college student who set herself on fire following inaction over her sexual harassment complaint against a professor, an officer said Tuesday. DIG of Police (Eastern Range)...

Bhubaneswar/Balasore: The body of the college student who set herself ablaze following alleged sexual harassment by a professor was consigned to flames at a crematorium in her village in Odisha's Balasore district Tuesday. The 20-year-old woman's cousin brother lit the funeral pyre at the village...

Bhubaneswar/Balasore: Leader of Opposition in Odisha Assembly Naveen Patnaik Tuesday said the death of the college student who set herself ablaze following alleged sexual harassment by a professor was due to "failure of the system". Expressing his grief over the death of the college student,...

Bhubaneswar: Attacking the ruling BJP in Odisha over the death of the college student who set herself on fire, Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi Tuesday alleged it was nothing less than an "organised murder by the system". Gandhi alleged that those...

Bhubaneswar/Balasore: Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi Tuesday announced ex gratia of Rs 20 lakh for the family of the college student who died by setting herself on fire over alleged inaction on her sexual harassment complaint. Majhi directed officers concerned to conduct a proper...

Paralakhemundi: Large swathes of agricultural land in Gajapati district’s Kashinagar block are being steadily consumed by the Vamsadhara owing to a change in the course of the river. Despite the presence of three mega irrigation projects along the river intended to facilitate water supply to...

Chhendipada: In a heart-wrenching scene from Bhaliasar village under Nuagaon panchayat of Chhendipada block in Angul district, a pregnant woman in labour was carried across a swollen river on a makeshift sling by her family after an ambulance failed to reach the village due to...

Titilagarh: A female student has alleged mental harassment by a faculty member at Dayanand Anglo-Vedic (DAV) Autonomous College in Titilagarh in Bolangir district. The incident, coming in the wake of a student suicide case in Balasore over sexual harassment, has sparked concern. According to reports,...

Dhenkanal/Keonjhar: Just a day after a female elephant died of electrocution in Sambalpur district, another succumbed after coming in contact with wire fencing illegally connected to a power line at a jungle near Bariharagadi village in Khajuriakata forest section and Hindol forest range in Dhenkanal...