Briefs

Bhubaneswar: Excise sleuths seized over 40 litres of country-made liquor and arrested three persons, including a woman, during a raid at Khandagiri here on Thursday. The arrested have been identified...

Malkangiri/Boudh: Excise officials and the police seized a truckload of ganja in Chitrakonda area of Odisha’s Malkangiri district during a joint raid on Thursday and detained two persons. Acting on...

Bhubaneswar: Fire Services personnel will launch an indefinite state-wide strike from Friday over their four-point charter of demands. Their demands include equal salary and pension to fire personnel as provisioned...

Jammu: One person has succumbed to the injury, and 3 out of 28 are said to be in critical condition in the grenade explosion at the Jammu bus stand on Thursday....

Pattamundai: A youth had a narrow escape when a crocodile attacked him while he was taking bath in the Brahmani river at Rajpur village of Rajnagar block in Odisha’s Kendrapara district...

Bhubaneswar: After according university status to Rajendra Autonomous College in Balangir district, the Odisha government on Wednesday approved establishment of Kalahandi University at Bhawanipatna. According to a notification by the...

Bhubaneswar: The state unit of BJP will launch Vijay Sankalp Abhiyan across Odisha from March 10 to March 17 Briefing media on Wednesday, general secretary Prithviraj Harichandan said 5,000 meetings...

Nabarangpur: Police on Wednesday claimed to have busted a sex racket at Nabarangpur, which had been operating from a rented house in the town for the past few days. During...

The United States has reduced the visa duration of Pakistani journalists to only three months and those going for missionary work to one year. Currently, the journalists and missionaries were...

New Delhi: Files related to the Rafale fighter jet deal with France have been stolen from the Defence Ministry, the Government told the Supreme Court on Wednesday. The government has...