Briefs

New Delhi: Sasmit Patra of BJD and four other Rajya Sabha members were elected unopposed to the parliamentary joint committee on office of profit. The other MPs elected unopposed to...

Balasore: Tension prevailed in Balasore after death of a hotel owner in police custody on Saturday. According to sources, vehicular traffic was disrupted as agitating locals blocked Remuna Golei Chhak....

Baripada: Panic gripped two villages in Mayurbhanj district after a rampaging herd of elephants from neighbouring Jharkhand damaged standing crops. According to reports, 22 elephants entered the two villages of...

Bhubaneswar: Well-known social activist and philanthropist, Dhaneswar Sahoo, of Rajnagar in Kendrapara district has passed. He was 87. Sahoo died after a cardiac arrest at AMRI Hospital here on Friday...

Bhadrak: Nineteen students were taken ill after having mid-day meal (MDM) at the Charitaraf Upper Primary School under Tihidi block in Bhadrak on Friday. They were rushed to the Bhadrak...

Dhenkanal: In a shocking incident, a woman was caught on camera thrashing her 82-year-old mother-in-law after dragging her out of the house at Gelehikateni village under Parjang police station in...

Bhadrak: Unidentified miscreants looted an SBI ATM kiosk at Betada Bazar in Bhadrak on Friday. According to sources, Rs 20.64 lakh was found missing from the kiosk in the morning....

Balangir: A joint enforcement team on Thursday arrested Tirthankar Patel, owner of Sai International Mines & Minerals, on charges of evading Goods and Services Tax (GST) amounting to Rs 12.84...

Koraput: An employee of  Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) died in a compressor explosion at its Sunabeda factory in Koraput on Thursday. The deceased was identified as Sudam Mohanty. He reportedly...

Berhampur: Police on Thursday recovered the decomposed body of a college teacher from inside a house at Maniknagar near Hinjilikatu in Ganjam district. The deceased, Rajendra Kumar Bhuyan, was a...