Kendrapada: The body of a 20-year-old college student, with her throat slit, was found in a water-filled ditch in Odisha's Kendrapada district Saturday, police said. The incident took place at Jadupur village under Marshaghai police station limits in the coastal district, the police said. The...
Bhubaneswar: A "well-marked" low-pressure area in the Bay of Bengal has intensified into a depression and is likely to turn into a cyclonic storm that may hit the Andhra Pradesh coast November 3, India Meteorological Department officials said Saturday. On October 28, Cyclonic storm Arnab...
Bhubaneswar/Phulbani: Odisha government has stepped up a search operation for 12 people who went missing after the cyclone Arnab-induced rain triggered a landslide at a village bordering Ganjam and Kandhamala districts a day ago, officials said Saturday. The rescue team is expected to use a...
New Delhi: Pacer Auqib Nabi was Saturday added to India's squad for the first three ODIs against New Zealand after Prasidh Krishna was ruled out of the five-match series with a hamstring injury. Nabi was already in the squad for the fourth and fifth ODIs,...
Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Civil Service main examination will not be postponed because of the flood caused by heavy rainfall triggered by cyclone 'Arnab', and the state government will arrange transport for candidates in affected areas, minister said. The Congress had demanded the postponement of the...
Baripada: The National Green Tribunal (NGT), Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata, has restrained the Odisha government, Baripada Municipality and other authorities from carrying out further construction, tree felling or non-forest activities on a disputed plot at Jubilee Park in Baripada without prior approval from the Central...
Koraput: A 32-year-old woman was allegedly hacked to death with an axe by her husband while she was asleep following a domestic dispute over curry in Paduguda village under Lulla panchayat in Dasamantapur block of Koraput district late Thursday night. The deceased, identified as Kabita...
Patana: Police have arrested nine people, including three minors, in connection with the murder of businessman Trilochan Mohant, the husband of a woman constable posted at Patana police station in Kendujhar district. Over a month after the murder, police reconstructed the crime scene Friday at...
Sambalpur: A suspended sanitation worker allegedly stabbed Sambalpur University’s (SU) Head of the Department (HOD) of Chemistry, Professor Satyanarayan Sahu, Friday morning, leaving him seriously injured. Professor Sahu was admitted to Veer Surendra Sai Institute of Medical Sciences and Research (VIMSAR) in Burla, where he...
Bhabanipatana: The Kalahandi South Forest Division has busted an alleged wildlife poaching and trafficking racket in Saisurani range under Thuamul Rampur forest area, arresting seven people and seizing two leopard skins, other wildlife remains, weapons and a live wild boar. The accused, identified as Kumud...
By Dilip Cherian The Centre appears keen to give young IPS officers early exposure to the workings and priorities of...
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The demonstration by scores of policemen and officers outside the Delhi Police headquarters on 2 November to protest against some...
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More than three years after ethnic violence erupted in Manipur, there is no let-up in the spiral of killings, displacement,...
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The BJP appears to be clueless as to how to handle the people’s fury and the Opposition’s mega rally at...
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