Bhubaneswar: The Advocates’ Committee, constituted by the Orissa High Court to inspect the quality of healthcare services at SCB Medical College and Hospital (SCBMCH) in Cuttack, has found severe space shortage, inadequate manpower, and scarcity of equipment at the burn and newborn care units of...
Cuttack: Commissioner of Police S Dev Datta Singh Friday evening, dismissed reports of a scuffle between security personnel and members of a Kali Puja committee when an idol immersion procession was passing through Chandni Chowk area of Odisha's Cuttack. Reports in a section of the...
Bhubaneswar: A fresh low-pressure area formed over the southeast Bay of Bengal Friday is gaining strength and is set to intensify into a cyclonic storm October 27, causing heavy rainfall across Odisha and some parts of West Bengal for three days starting Monday, officials said....
Puri: A 16-year-old girl was allegedly raped by her two distant relatives in Odisha's Puri district, police said Friday. The incident took place under the Chandanapur police station area on the night of October 22, when Kali Puja idol immersion procession was going on in...
Keonjhar: A 26-year-old man and a 24-year-old married woman have been allegedly physically assaulted, forced to wear footwear garlands and paraded on the streets of a village in Odisha's Keonjhar district on the suspicion of having an extra-marital relationship, police said Friday. The incident took...
Kendrapara: Forest department personnel in Odisha's Kendrapara district Friday seized around 15 quintals of mangrove roots that bore resemblance to sandalwood in Bhitarkanika National Park and arrested nine people, including five women, for trespassing into the protected forest and felling trees, officials said. Ten quintals...
Bhubaneswar: A total of 14 candidates are in the fray in the by-election to Nuapada assembly constituency, officials said Friday. None of the candidates withdrew their nomination Friday, the last date for withdrawal of papers, they said. The candidates in the fray are Jay Dholakia...
Bhubaneswar: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bhubaneswar have signed an MoU to foster collaborative research and development, an official said. The National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC) of ISRO and IIT-Bhubaneswar signed the agreement here October 17, and the...
Bhubaneswar: The Odisha unit of the CPI(M) Friday extended its support to Congress candidate Ghasiram Majhi for the November 11 bypoll in Nuapada assembly seat. The Left party gave a call for defeating those indulging in politics over religion and creating division among communities. The...
Kendrapara: Forest officials in Odisha's Kendrapara district Friday rescued two poisonous snakes that had strayed into houses in villages located within the Bhitarkanika National Park. While a five-foot-long monocled cobra was rescued from the backyard of a house in Khamarasahi village, a nine-foot-long python was...
By Aakar Patel Attacks on Bengali Christians and their churches have begun following the BJP's victory in the state. Last...
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By Dilip Cherian The Centre appears keen to give young IPS officers early exposure to the workings and priorities of...
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The demonstration by scores of policemen and officers outside the Delhi Police headquarters on 2 November to protest against some...
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More than three years after ethnic violence erupted in Manipur, there is no let-up in the spiral of killings, displacement,...
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