Briefs

Bhubaneswar: Odia IPS Officer Jalad Kumar Tripathy has been appointed Tamil Nadu Director-General of Police on Saturday. He is a Tamil Nadu cadre (1985-batch) IPS officer. Tripathy has earlier worked as Chennai...

Balangir: A brother and sister were injured in a firecracker blast at Routmunda village under Tureikela block on Saturday. Sources said the siblings were playing with a live firecracker when...

Bhubaneswar: The Special Task Force (STF) on Friday arrested four more persons involved in the leopard skin smuggling racket busted in Barkote area of Deogarh district on June 21. Kalicharan...

Bhubaneswar: A day after he was attacked by two unidentified criminals, senior IAS officer and additional secretary, Steel & Mines, Batakrushna Dehury, on Friday sought police protection. Dehury urged the...

As part of its commitment to go green, a battery operated vehicle service was inaugurated at the IIT campus in Bhubaneswar on Thursday by Prof. R.V. Raja Kumar, Director of...

Taking a cue from the ‘Mo Bus’ and ‘Mo Cycle’ projects by the Odisha government, the Puri district administration has launched a ‘Mo Beach’ campaign to keep the shoreline clean...

Fugitive diamantaire Nirav Modi is set to appear for a routine remand hearing at a London court via video link from prison on Thursday, according to media reports in London....

Police in the US state of Georgia have released a poignant video of officers finding an abandoned newborn girl inside a plastic bag, as part of their efforts to find...

Angul: Armed criminals robbed a trader of Rs 1.5 lakh in cash at Sabalabhanga village under Jarpada police limits of Angul district on Thursday morning. Reports said Dambaru Sahu was...

Bhubaneswar: Speaker Surya Narayan Patro on Tuesday formed a 7-member council to look after the proceedings of the State Assembly. The members of the council are Debi Prasad Mishra, Prafulla...