Briefs

  Koraput: Panic gripped local residents after a Maoist poster was found stuck on a tree near Pukali village under Patangi block in Koraput district on Friday. The poster, bearing...

Jajpur: A youth was found hanging from a tree in a cashew orchard of Baraj-Balighat forest under Mahakalapada block here on Friday. He has been identified as Butu Nayak (22),...

Kendrapara: Police on Friday busted a vehicle theft racket and detained a clerk of a Tehsil office in Kendrapara district. The accused has been identified as Biranchi Mahalik. Acting on...

Nayagarh: Unidentified miscreants decamped with gold and silver ornaments and cash worth lakhs of rupees from donation boxes of three temples at Balugaon in Nayagarh district on Wednesday night. According...

Balasore: A person sustained bullet wounds after being shot at at Kantabania village in Balasore on Wednesday night. The injured person has been identified as Biranchi Das. According to sources,...

Puri: The number of arrests in the sensational broad daylight murder of Sanjay Behera alias Para, an anti-social, near Gundicha Temple in Puri on December 25 last year has gone...

Kendrapara: Four days after a journalist was thrashed by a group of students inside a cinema hall in Bhubaneswar for opposing lewd remarks on women, another journalist was assaulted in...

Balasore: A four-year-old boy, who was allegedly thrown into a 20-feet-deep water dip by an elderly man, Maguni Nayak of Mahumuhana Gudikhal village at Soro in Balasore district, was rescued...

Balasore: An inmate was found dead while another was rescued in a critical condition from Purubai Kanyashram at Sora in Balasore district on Wednesday morning. The deceased has been identified...

Koraput: Police on Wednesday detained a person for allegedly impregnating a minor girl at Dasmantpur in Koraput district. The accused is a distant relative of the orphaned minor girl. He was detained...