Rajendra Prasad Mohapatra

Jajpur: In another major crackdown on wildlife smugglers, Jajpur Forest Division sleuths busted a wildlife smuggling racket and arrested two persons in this connection from Bhikipur Reserve Forest area under Jajpur Road police limits in...

Bhubaneswar: Amid the massive public outrage over the alleged lackadaisical investigation into the abduction and subsequent murder of 5-year-old girl ‘Pari’ in Nayagarh district, a seven-year-old girl from the Capital City has jumped on the...

Sambalpur: An under-construction bridge over a canal at Andhari village in Jujumara block in the district caved in on Tuesday, raising question marks over the quality of the work. However, there are no reports of...

Malkangiri: Maoists ultras, who were lying low following a series of setbacks at the hands of security forces recently, once again made their presence felt in the district by torching vehicles engaged in the construction...

Bolangir: Despite the tall claims of the government on enforcement of strict laws to curb trafficking of migrant labourers to and from Odisha, the illegal activities continue unabated in many parts of the State. As...

Bolangir: One person sustained severe burn injuries while property worth over Rs 5 lakh was reduced to ashes following a major fire that broke out in a fruit market in the town on Thursday night....

Kalahandi: Akshay Nayak, the Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) at Malkangiri, has been detained by the Kesinga police station in the district after a woman constable lodged a complaint accusing Nayak of betraying her after...

Nabarangpur: A septuagenarian woman from the town willed her three-storey ancestral house, worth over Rs 1 crore, to Lord Jagannath five days prior to her death in an extraordinary gesture of devotion for the Lord...

Bhubaneswar: Suspended IFS officer Abhay Kant Pathak on Friday filed a petition in the Bhubaneswar Sub-Divisional Judicial Magistrate (SDJM) Court seeking bail in connection with the fraud allegations levelled against him by Sky King travel...

Bhubaneswar: Raising serious questions over law and order situation in the State, a student was allegedly sprayed with sedative and robbed of by three unidentified miscreants in the Capital City on Saturday evening. The victim...

Bhubaneswar: Mercury is going to dip further and the on-going cold wave condition in the State will prevail ahead of the Christmas celebrations, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) stated on Saturday. The Regional Meteorological office...

Bhubaneswar: In the last 24 hours, Odisha reported 356 fresh Covid-19 cases taking the total tally to 3,25,861 on Saturday.  Of the fresh cases, 199 are from quarantine and 157 are local contact cases, informed...

Rourkela: As many as a dozen of gamblers were arrested in one of the biggest anti-gambling drives by the Odisha Police ahead of the New Year in the Steel City on Saturday. The police also...

Bargarh: The farmers across Bargarh district, known as Odisha’s rice bowl, have been repeatedly complaining about irregularities in the paddy procurement process, but strangely the district administration has just lent a deaf ear to their...

Malkangiri: A team of BSF Jawans had a narrow escape when a landmine planted by the Maoists was detected and defused at Swabhiman Anchal in the district on Sunday. The jawans detected the explosives when...

Bhubaneswar: In the last 24 hours, Odisha reported 372 fresh Covid-19 cases taking the total tally to 3,26,233 on Sunday. Of the fresh cases, 214 are from quarantine and 158 are local contact cases, informed...

Malkangiri: The Maoists have given a day-long bandh call in Malkangiri on Monday protesting the recent police encounter at Alampakka area under ‘Swabhiman Anchal’ in the district in which two red ultras were killed. A...

Bhubaneswar: The Opposition BJP and Congress have turned the heat on the State Government by intensifying their protests across the State seeking justice for the family of 5-year-old Nayagarh girl Pari, who was kidnapped and...