Briefs

Baripada: Excise officials busted a bottling plant of fake foreign liquor during a raid at at Uthani Nuagaan village near Baripada on Wednesday. One person, Bikarttan Nayak, was also arrested in...

Boudh: A leopard died in a road accident on National-Highway (NH)-57 inside Shalabhanga forest near Boudh district on Wednesday. According to sources, the leopard had strayed on to the highway...

Jatni: Two markets at Bada Bazaar near Sitaram Chhak under Jatni Municipality in Odisha's Khurda district have been shut for two days for COVID norms violation. According to an official...

Bhubaneswar: A joint enforcement squad of Bhubaneswar Municipal Commission (BMC) and Bhubaneswar Development Authority on Tuesday sealed five liquor shops for violating COVID guidelines. According to BMC sources, these liquor...

Balangir: Forest officials seized a Leopard skin from a village in Odisha's Balangir district late on Monday and arrested a person. Acting on a tip-off, a team of Forest officials...

Bhubaneswar: A joint team of Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) officials and police sealed 42 shops in the city for violating COVID-19 norms on Monday. According to sources, the sealed units...

Bhubaneswar: Amid a dip in COVID cases, the Outpatient Department (OPD) services at AIIMS, Bhubaneswar resumed on Monday. In the first phase, only 40 to 50 patients will be allowed...

New Delhi: Twitter’s recently-appointed interim resident grievance officer for India Dharmendra Chatur has stepped down. The popular micro-blogging site is, thus, without a grievance official as mandated by new IT...

Bhubaneswar: Biju Janata Dal (BJD) president and Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Saturday appointed party observers for 30 districts. The directive of the Chief Minister comes into force with immediate...

Minneapolis: Former cop Derek Chauvin got 22-and-a-half years’ in prison on Friday after being convicted of murdering African American George Floyd in May last year. The killing sparked America’s biggest...