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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/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...

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: Eight Opposition parties, led by the Congress, called an Odisha bandh July 17 to protest the death of the college student who set herself on fire following inaction over her sexual harassment complaint against a professor. State Congress president Bhakta Charan Das said the...

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/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...

Balasore: The body of the college student who set herself ablaze following alleged sexual harassment by a professor reached her village in Odisha's Balasore district Tuesday. The student died at the AIIMS Bhubaneswar Monday night after battling for life for about 60 hours. Her body...

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...