Briefs

Bhubaneswar: A total of 369 people have died in elephant attacks in Odisha in the last five years, Forest and Environment Minister Bikram Keshari Arukh told the Assembly on Tuesday....

Keonjhar: Tension prevailed at the Odisha Mining Corporation (OMC) mines at Suakati village in Keonjhar following the death of a truck driver in a road mishap in front of the...

Mumbai: A four-storey building in south Mumbai's Dongri area collapsed on Tuesday afternoon. It is feared that at least 40 people are trapped inside. Two National Disaster Response Force (NDRF)...

Sundargarh: In a shocking incident, a college girl was allegedly gang-raped by her classmates at a forest in Balisankara area in Sundargarh. Though the incident occurred on June 26, it...

Bhubaneswar: The Commissionerate Police arrested a man on charges of stealing valuables from a locked car in Bhubaneswar and forwarded him to the court on Monday. The accused has been...

Bhubaneswar: Two BJP leaders of Cuttack district were suspended from the party on Monday for anti-party activity and gross indiscipline in the party organisation. The two leaders—Jyoti Ranjan Palei, president...

Khurda: The Khurda district administration began demolishing a mansion-like house of Shubranshu Parida alias Chotta, a drug peddler and a mining mafia, at his village of Gurujanga on Monday. Chhota's...

Daspalla: Vehicular traffic on Khurda-Balangir National Highway-57 was disrupted on Monday due to a 12-bandh of Daspalla in Odisha’s Nayagarh district by the joint action committee in protest against the...

Tangi: Two persons died and three were critically injured in lightning strikes here on Sunday. The deceased have been identified as Chitu Rout of Tangi and Tushar Palai of Jharia...