Puri: A senior police constable (havildar) was placed under suspension in Puri district after he allegedly hit an elderly woman with a cane stick inside Shree Jagannath Temple here, a senior officer said. The 65-year-old woman, who sustained injuries on her head, was immediately taken...
Bhubaneswar: Political parties have begun preparations for the December 5 by-election in Padmapur assembly constituency in Odisha's Bargarh district. Although no nominee has been decided yet, parties have started tasking senior leaders with selection, and names are being discussed for candidature. The Congress has set...
Bhubaneswar: The economic offences wing (EOW) of Odisha crime branch has arrested one Jayanta Mohanty for his involvement in a cheating case of Rs 1.47 crore, a police officer said Saturday. Mohanty was arrested from Chandaneswar, Balasore Saturday in connection with a case registered on...
Bhubaneswar: All eyes are on the results of the Dhamnagar by-elections with elaborate arrangements having been made for vote counting Sunday. State Chief Electoral Office (CEO) S K Lohani said that tight security is in place for the counting of votes at Sanskruti Bhawan, located...
Bhubaneswar: The crime branch of Odisha police arrested one Prasant Dwivedi from Kolkata Friday for his involvement in an online cheating case of Rs 74 lakh. A team of the crime branch led by inspector Abantimani Nayak the arrested fraudster from Alipore, Kolkata and seized...
Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government has planned to organise city festivals in Bhubaneswar and Rourkela, the host cities for the 2023 FIH Men's Hockey World Cup. This was decided during a meeting of the organising committee for the FIH World Cup here Friday. Chaired by Chief...
Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government and the United Nations' World Food Programme (WFP) in India have launched the 'Secure Fishing App' to empower the fisher-folks by providing real-time information, officials said. The dynamic mobile application developed by WFP in collaboration with Odisha's fisheries and animal resources...
Bhubaneswar: An Odisha consumer court has asked a Cuttack-based shopping mall to pay Rs 25,000 to a consumer for charging Rs 6 for a carry bag. The district consumer dispute redressal commission, Cuttack has issued this order on a petition filed by Padmalochan Rout. The...
Bhubaneswar: More women than men exercised their franchise in the by-poll to Dhamnagar Assembly constituency in Odisha held Thursday. Out of the total 2,38,417 people eligible to cast their votes in the by-poll, 1,64,465 (68.98 per cent) electors exercised their franchise. Of them, 74.08 per...
Bhubaneswar: The anti-corruption vigilance sleuths detected 50 more crypto wallets in possession of a government engineer arrested in a disproportionate assets case. The vigilance wing on October 29 had arrested Nihar Ranjan Das, Additional Chief Engineer, Planning, Monitoring, Design, Investigation under RWSS Circle, Bhubaneswar, on...
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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The BJP appears to be clueless as to how to handle the people’s fury and the Opposition’s mega rally at...
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By Aakar Patel My thesis is that the Indian state under Hindutva is incompletely communal. I have written about this...
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