Briefs

Jharsuguda: Badmal Police here on Wednesday night arrested four persons for allegedly cheating job aspirants. The police arrested them outside the Vedanta Ltd and seized car, Rs 54,000 cash, and...

Cuttack: A dreaded criminal, Manoj Patra alias Amit was injured in an exchange of fire with the police at Jagatpur, on the outskirts of Cuttack, on Wednesday afternoon. Acting on...

Bhubaneswar: The scheduled visit of Chief Secretary Asit Tripathy to Balangir district was cancelled due to inclement weather. According to reports, Tripathy, accompanied by Principal Secretary, Water Resources, Pradip Jena,...

Cuttack: Panic gripped Dagarpada area here after two miscreants hurled three country-made bombs at a house near Hanuman temple on Wednesday afternoon. According to police sources, the two miscreants came...

Bhubaneswar: Two days after a sex racket was busted in Jajpur, three women engaged in illegal flesh trade were rescued from a lodge at Baramunda in Odisha capital on Wednesday....

Sambalpur: With less flow of Mahanadi water from the upper catchments, the Hirakud Dam authorities on Wednesday closed two sluice gates. The water level of the dam recorded at 9...

Bhubaneswar: Radhashyam Mahapatro has been appointed Director (Human Resources) of National Aluminium Company Ltd (Nalco). Mahapatro is currently working as Director (Personnel), Central Coalfields Ltd. He take charge on January...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government on Tuesday appointed DIG (Keonjhar) Jai Narayan Pankaj as the DIG (Special Task Force), Bhubaneswar. Mitrabhanu Mahapatra, who earlier served as Angul SP, will replace this...

Bhubaneswar: A day after a video of two Plus II students being brutally thrashed in Gandhi Science College here created a furore, Khandagiri police on Tuesday arrested the hostel warden,...

Bhubaneswar: A smuggler was arrested with a rare ornate flying snake near Bhubaneswar railway station on Tuesday. According to police sources, locals spotted the man with a 2 feet long...