Crime

Raipur: Mahasamund district in Chhattisgarh has emerged as a major transit route for ganja smuggling from Odisha to consumer markets hundreds of kilometres away in Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh and beyond....

Bhubaneswar: Police have arrested three youths for allegedly stealing four batteries from excavators and six batteries from Hyva trucks here. A scrap dealer has also been apprehended for receiving the...

Mumbai: A day after Tiger Shroff was targeted by Lawrence Bishnoi gang in a firing incident in Mumbai’s Juhu area, an associate of Lawrence delivered another chilling warning for Bollywood...

Bhubaneswar: Police in Odisha’s Jagatsinghpur district have dismantled a cyber fraud racket operating out of a Jana Seva Kendra and arrested two brothers accused of cheating unsuspecting people of huge...

Kochi: Police have arrested an Odisha native for murdering her husband and dumping his body on the railway tracks in the city. Police identified the deceased as a 31-year-old man...

Bhubaneswar: Not everyone is cheerful during the festive season in Odisha, particularly bootleggers and ganja smugglers. In a major crackdown on illicit liquor and narcotics during the ongoing festival season,...

Bhubaneswar: The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence’s (DRI) seizure of smuggled gold worth nearly Rs 9 crore in Visakhapatnam has reignited concerns over Odisha’s highway surveillance and enforcement lapses. Late last...

Bhubaneswar: Mancheswar police in Bhubaneswar have arrested two brothers for allegedly running an interstate vehicle fraud racket that involved leasing trucks and illegally reselling them to unsuspecting buyers. The accused...

Berhampur: Dealing a blow to illegal trade in wildlife articles, forest officials have seized two leopard skins and arrested six persons in Gajapati district. The breakthrough came during two separate...

Raurkela: Enraged residents of Sundaragada town gheraoed the local police station on Thursday night after a 22-year-old youth was found dead under mysterious circumstances in an abandoned car near Bhojpur...