Baripada: A POCSO court here sentenced a man to 20 years rigorous imprisonment (RI) for raping a 12-year-old girl in Odisha's Mayurbhanj district, a government lawyer said Wednesday. Special POCSO court judge Santosh Kumar Nayak also imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 on convict Md...
Berhampur: Police have arrested five members of a gang from Odisha's Ganjam district for illegal possession of firearms and involvement in the supply of country-made guns. The arrested have been identified as D. Muna Rao (24), Tofan Bhuyan alias Santosh (28), Chinu Patra (24), Surya...
Keonjhar: A 15-year-old student living in a hostel of a private residential college in Keonjhar was allegedly suffocated to death by three fellow roommates — all minors — following a brief altercation Tuesday morning. The accused have been arrested, police said. The victim was identified...
Pottangi: More than a hundred villagers from Dhulipadar, Nereduvalasa, and Tadivalasa — three key villages under Kotia Panchayat — approached former Andhra Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Peedika Rajanna Dora at his residence in the Salur Assembly constituency Monday afternoon. They reportedly expressed their anguish, stating...
Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi Tuesday ordered the setting up of a committee to study the prevailing ground situation in Koraput district's Kotia gram panchayat over which the neighbouring Andhra Pradesh also makes its claim. The decision to form a panel was taken during...
Rourkela: A girl was allegedly raped by three men in a forest in Odisha's Sundargarh district, police said Tuesday. The three accused were arrested in the alleged gang rape that took place Monday night in Talsara area when the minor was returning home around 10...
Bhubaneswar: Odisha's industrial town of Jharsuguda Tuesday emerged as the hottest place in the country with mercury level reaching 46.2 degrees Celsius while 15 places in the state recorded maximum temperature at or above 40 degrees Celsius, IMD said. Chandrapur in the Vidarbha region of...
Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government has announced the closure of all schools and colleges across the state starting Wednesday, April 23, in response to the ongoing severe heatwave. Odisha Revenue and Disaster Management Minister Suresh Pujari confirmed that all educational institutions will remain shut untill further...
New Delhi: An Odisha resident, Prashant Satpathy, was killed in a terrorist attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam Tuesday. The death was confirmed by Anantnag police. He was holidaying with his wife, Priyadarshini, and their 8-year-old son when the attack took place in the Baisaran...
Bhawanipatna: A woman and his son were killed after they came in contact with a live wire in Odisha's Kalahandi district Tuesday afternoon, police said. The incident occurred at the Dungarpada hamlet of Turchi village under the M Rampur police station limits, a senior officer...
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