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Balasore: A 60-year-old man was sentenced to life imprisonment by a court here and imposed a fine of Rs 50,000 for raping his daughter-in-law. Additional sessions judge, Fast Track Special courts, Anita Sahoo Wednesday convicted the father in-law on the charge committing rape against his...

Jajpur: Jajpur district administration might have collected more than Rs 45 crore in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) funds over the past four years, but it has reportedly failed to utilise the funds in development of regions that are bearing the brunt of mining and industrial...

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Kendrapara: In a grand culmination of the annual mass nesting of endangered Olive Ridley turtles, lakhs of hatchlings broke out of eggshells to emerge from sandy pits and crawl towards the sea at the idyllic Gahirmatha beach off the Bay of Bengal coast in Odisha's...

Baripada: A POCSO court here sentenced a man to 20 years rigorous imprisonment (RI) for raping a 12-year-old girl in Odisha's Mayurbhanj district, a government lawyer said Wednesday. Special POCSO court judge Santosh Kumar Nayak also imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 on convict Md...

Berhampur: Police have arrested five members of a gang from Odisha's Ganjam district for illegal possession of firearms and involvement in the supply of country-made guns. The arrested have been identified as D. Muna Rao (24), Tofan Bhuyan alias Santosh (28), Chinu Patra (24), Surya...

Keonjhar: A 15-year-old student living in a hostel of a private residential college in Keonjhar was allegedly suffocated to death by three fellow roommates — all minors — following a brief altercation Tuesday morning. The accused have been arrested, police said. The victim was identified...

Pottangi: More than a hundred villagers from Dhulipadar, Nereduvalasa, and Tadivalasa — three key villages under Kotia Panchayat — approached former Andhra Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Peedika Rajanna Dora at his residence in the Salur Assembly constituency Monday afternoon. They reportedly expressed their anguish, stating...

Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi Tuesday ordered the setting up of a committee to study the prevailing ground situation in Koraput district's Kotia gram panchayat over which the neighbouring Andhra Pradesh also makes its claim. The decision to form a panel was taken during...

Rourkela: A girl was allegedly raped by three men in a forest in Odisha's Sundargarh district, police said Tuesday. The three accused were arrested in the alleged gang rape that took place Monday night in Talsara area when the minor was returning home around 10...