Briefs

Balasore: Locals thrashed a youth for allegedly passing lewd comments on college going girls and women at Gop village near Jaleswar in Balasore district on Sunday. The angry locals tied...

Bhubaneswar: Four districts of Odisha are likely to experience intermittent rain on Sunday afternoon. According to the regional centre of India Meteorological Department here, light thundershower and lightning with one...

A man armed with a rifle opened fire at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas on Saturday, killing 20 people and wounding 26 others. The gunman later surrendered to...

Mayurbhanj: A physically-challenged girl was allegedly raped by a youth at Udala in Mayurbhanj, police said on Sunday. Sources said the incident took place on July 31, but it came...

CuttacK: One person was killed and over 10 were injured in a group clash, which erupted  between Sagar and Panchagochia villages over breaching of an embankment, at Narasinghpur in Cuttack...

Bhubaneswar: The budget session of the Odisha assembly was adjourned sine die, five days ahead of schedule, on Saturday. Speaker Surya Narayan Patro announced early closure of the monsoon session of...

Cuttack: Tension erupted at CDA's Krushak Bazaar here during an eviction drive on Saturday. Slum dwellers in the area opposed the eviction jointly conducted by the district administration and Cuttack...

Nayagarh: An undertrial prisoner arrested for allegedly raping a girl escaped from Nayagarh sub-jail for the second time on Saturday morning. Police said Tapan Rout had also ran away from...

Bhubaneswar: Central Excise officials arrested a person and seized 22 grams of brown sugar from his possession at Patia near Chandrasekharpur on Saturday. The cost of the seized contraband is around...

Balasore: BJP on Saturday called a 12-hour Baliapal bandh to protest against the arrest of 13 persons for assaulting the former IIC of Baliapal, Prabhu Kalyan Acharya. There is palpable tension...