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Nuapada:  Odisha Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) R S Gopalan Friday directed the district administration and police to take prompt action on complaints lodged in the cVigil app for the bypolls to the Nuapada assembly constituency. cVIGIL is a web-based platform where citizens can lodge complaints...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Deputy Chief Minister Pravati Parida Friday said the state government has adopted the Centre's 'No Gift Policy' during the ongoing festive season. Parida urged people not to bring any gifts to her office in keeping with the policy. Taking to social media, Parida...

Baripada: A special POCSO court in Odisha's Mayurbhanj district Friday sentenced a man to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment for raping a 12-year-old girl four years ago. Special POCSO court judge Pratima Patra held 23-year-old Balaram Munda guilty of the crime and also imposed a...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Governor Hari Babu Kambhampati Friday said the law enforcement agencies need to create fear in the minds of criminals by taking prompt action and ensuring strict punishment against them in crimes against women, particularly rape cases. Kambhampati said this during an interaction with...

Bhubaneswar: Bhubaneswar-Cuttack Police arrested three persons, including a notorious woman drug dealer, after seizing brown sugar worth Rs 60 lakh from their possession, a senior officer said Friday. Acting on a tip-off, the special crime unit of police intercepted the accused persons near Harirajpur Chhak...

Nuapada: Biju Janata Dal (BJD) Friday released a list of 40 star campaigners for the by-election in Nuapada Assembly constituency, scheduled to be held November 11. The list includes party supremo and former Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, along with veteran leaders Prasanna Acharya, Debi Prasad...

Bhubaneswar/Sonepur: At least three pilgrims from Odisha died in a road accident near Katra in Jammu and Kashmir while travelling to Maa Vaishnodevi temple, the state government said in a press release Friday. The deceased have been identified as Bichitra Kumar Sahu, Yogindra Matari and...

Nuapada: BJD's Nuapada candidate Snehangini Chhuria Friday dismissed Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi's claim that she is an "outsider", saying she belongs to western Odisha and has strong family roots in the district. Reacting to CM Majhi's remarks at a public meeting in Nuapada...

Cuttack: Four more people were arrested in connection with the alleged irregularities in the police recruitment examination in Odisha, officials said. The examination for the recruitment of sub-inspectors was scheduled to be held October 5 and 6, but it was postponed after the alleged irregularities...

Angul: Special Task Force (STF) of Odisha Police has arrested two wildlife traffickers and seized two elephant tusks weighing 4.795 kilograms from their possession. According to STF sources, acting on an intelligence input, a raid was conducted Thursday evening in Jadupur area under Athmallik police...