Briefs

Balasore: Odisha Crime Branch arrested a constable at the Bicharganj police outpost at Sahadevkhunta in Balasore district on Saturday for alleged links with drug kingpin Sheikh Raja. The accused cop,...

Bhubaneswar: Police detained two drunken girls for creating a nuisance on a busy street here on Saturday. According to sources, the two girls were traveling in a car on Kapileswar...

New Delhi: The Assembly elections in Maharashtra and Haryana will be held on October 21 and the results will declared three days later, the Election Commission of India said on...

Bhubaneswar: Noted Pala artist Narottama Mohapatra died on Friday afternoon at his residence at Kantabada village in Khurda. He was 90. He was ill for the past few days. He...

Cuttack: Miscreants hurled bombs at a private ayurvedic clinic at Kulailo in Cuttack district's Athagarh block in the wee hours of Friday. However, no one was injured. Police said the...

Balangir: Four Vigilance teams raided the offices and house of a couple, who are both government employees, in Balangir town on Friday. The couple, Trinath Seth and Sitarani Seth, are...

Kabul: A powerful suicide truck bomb ripped through a hospital at Qalat in southern Afghanistan on Thursday killing 20 people and wounding 90. The toll is expected to rise with...

Rourkela: Police arrested a top insurgent of the Peoples' Liberation Front of India (PLFI), Sudama Singh, from Bisra near Rourkela in Sundargarh district on Thursday. A pistol and some bullets...

Bhubaneswar: The regional centre of India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued thunderstorm and rainfall warning for 15 districts of Odisha till 5:45 pm on Thursday. The alert has been sounded...

Jharsuguda: The authorities of the Vir Surendra Sai Airport launched an awareness drive for safe aircraft operations on Thursday. The airport stakeholders and students of Durlaga Government School participated in...