Metro

Bhubaneswar: Odisha vigilance department Sunday arrested six treasury employees for their alleged involvement in an Rs 8 crore financial fraud, officials said. A former senior assistant of the sub-treasury office, Chandbali, along with five associates, was arrested for alleged misappropriation of government funds amounting to...

Bhubaneswar: A PhD scholar at IIT Bhubaneswar has died after allegedly falling from the sixth floor of a hostel building on the campus, police said Sunday. The deceased has been identified as Tanikonda Nishant Kumar, a research scholar in the department of electrical engineering and...

Bhubaneswar: At least four policemen were suspended, and two home guards disengaged from service Sunday within hours of the Crime Branch (CB) of Odisha Police starting a probe into the lynching of a GRP constable by a mob for allegedly attempting to rape a woman...

Bhubaneswar: BJD president Naveen Patnaik Sunday congratulated C Joseph Vijay on being sworn in as the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu. Patnaik, a former five-time Chief Minister of Odisha, said he was hopeful that Tamil Nadu would reach new heights of development under Vijay's leadership....

Bhubaneswar: The Crime Branch (CB) of Odisha Police Sunday started a probe into the lynching of a GRP constable by a mob for allegedly attempting to rape a woman on the outskirts of Bhubaneswar May 7. The CB took over the case a day after...

Bhubaneswar: The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of Odisha Crime Branch (CB) has arrested a man from Andhra Pradesh (AP) in connection with a massive multi-state job scam that allegedly duped thousands across multiple states, the investigating agency said Saturday. The accused, identified as Kalluri Tirupati...

Bhubaneswar: The state government is considering setting up seven women fast-track courts and five special cyber courts to ensure speedy disposal of cases, Law Minister Prithiviraj Harichandan said Saturday. Participating in a workshop titled ‘Demographic Change and Legal System: Preparing for the Emerging Human Futures’,...

Bhubaneswar: The Orissa Environmental Society (OES) working president Jayakrushna Panigrahi, in a letter addressed to Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi Saturday, expressed concern over the ‘unrestrained’ extraction of groundwater in Odisha and seeks his urgent intervention to strengthen regulation and monitoring of groundwater withdrawal amid...

Bhubaneswar: Five people were killed and 31 injured in separate road accidents in Odisha, police said Saturday. Three persons were killed and one injured when a truck hit two motorcycles and a scooter on National Highway-16 passing through Bhubaneswar Saturday evening, the police said. The...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Police has seized nearly 3,500 litres of diesel and arrested one person on charge of clandestinely procuring materials from ships anchored in deep sea areas, an officer said Saturday. The seizure was part of a special enforcement operation conducted in the coastal jurisdiction...