Briefs

Sambalpur: Mushim Akhtar, a wanted criminal, was injured in an encounter with police in Sambalpur city early on Monday. According to sources, a joint team of Dhanupali police and a...

Berhampur: Sadar Police have arrested two persons, including a minor boy, for allegedly circulating obscene pictures of a minor girl student here. Further details awaited.

Bhubaneswar: The Commissionerate Police have arrested four youths for their alleged involvement in the loot of Rs 9 lakh from the house of one Kailash Chandra Sahu at Nayapalli here...

Bhubaneswar: The regional centre of India Meteorological Department (IMD) here issued thunderstorm and moderate rainfall warning for five Odisha districts till 5 pm on Sunday. The districts are Mayurbhanj, Balasore, Bhadrak,...

Amicus Curiae Ranjit Kumar and Solicitor General Tushar Mehta are scheduled to visit Puri on September 6-7. In view of the fresh developments in the Pilgrim Town of Odisha, the...

Berhampur: An eight-feet-long King Cobra was rescued at a village in Patrapur block of Ganjam district. Sources said villagers at Pancha Amba spotted the cobra while bathing in a pond on...

Kalahandi: Protesters burned tyres and staged a road blockade near Dharmagarh in Kalahandi district after a 12-year-old boy was run over by a speeding truck on NH-26 on Sunday morning....

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government on Saturday promoted three senior IPS officers to the rank of director general of police (DGP). The three officers promoted to the DGP rank are 1987-batch...

Paradip: The body of an unidentified foreigner was found floating in the sea in Paradip on Saturday morning. The body was brought ashore by lifeguards deployed near a Hanuman temple...

Jharsuguda: Irate villagers staged a rail roko and detained a goods train at Rajapur in Jharsuguda district on Saturday. The villagers were protesting against the delay in completion of a...