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From OSSC member's private secretary Biranchi Sahoo, Vigilance sleuths have so far traced assets worth Rs 3.79 crore including 1.5 kg gold

The accused, identified as Gopal Satpathy, has been arrested by a special team of the Twin City police from the national Capital city.

Bhubaneswar: Continuing its crackdown on illegal drug trade, the Excise officials arrested a B.Tech student of a private university for selling brown sugar near Big Bazaar area in Patia of Bhubaneswar today. Acting on a tip-off, the sleuths caught the youth, identified as Biswajit Swain of Jagatsinghpur while he was trying to sell the contraband […]

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Crime Branch today arrested a youth on charges of abusing a woman on social media. As per the complainant, a youth identified as Shovan Kumar had used objectionable language against a woman during chats on social media. The woman had lodged a complaint with the Crime Branch following which the youth was […]

Bhubaneswar: A day after officials of the Excise department seized brown sugar worth Rs 38 lakh from Chintamaniswar and Haldipadia area in Bhubaneswar, the sleuths today seized 240 grams of the contraband item in Khurda and arrested two suspected peddlers. Reports stated a joint team of the Cuttack Excise Intelligence and Khurda Excise departments conducted […]

Balasore: A businessman was allegedly looted by unidentified miscreants at gun point near Daradiabalipur in Bahanaga of Balasore district on NH-5 Wednesday evening. As per reports, three-bike borne miscreants tried to snatch a bag containing cash from the trader Tusarkanta Sahu while he was returning home on a motorcycle from Bahanaga. During the scuffle, Sahu […]

Balasore: Continuing its crackdown on illegal sale of drugs, the Excise department today seized brown sugar worth Rs 16 lakh from Basta area of Balasore district and arrested a suspected drug peddler. Acting on a tip-off, the Cuttack Central Excise Intelligence conducted raids in Basta area and seized 155 grams of brown sugar from one […]

Jharsuguda: In a broad daylight robbery, two bike-borne miscreants decamped with a bag containing Rs 3 lakh from a car near Jharsuguda Tehsil office today. As per reports, one Suresh Chandra Sagar had gone inside the Tehsil office after leaving his bag with cash in his car. While Suresh was away, the miscreants broke the […]

Rourkela: A woman on Wednesday threw acid at another woman suspecting her to be lover of her husband.The incident has become the talk of the town in Bondamunda area of the city. As per reports, a woman living in the area has been opposing her husband’s extra marital relationship with another woman due to which […]

Puri: A woman, identified as Sujata Sahu, wife of doctor Sanjeev Sahu was mysteriously found dead inside her house at the Railway quarters in Puri today. According to reports, Sujata was found lying in a pool of blood with injuries on her head. Family members of Sujata alleged that she has been murdered. Sources said […]

Bhubaneswar: A businessman was allegedly duped of Rs 1.5 lakh by a youth using a ‘magic pen’ with invisible ink in Laxmi Sagar area here on Friday. As per reports, the alleged fraudster called up the owner of Jagannath Graphics Ranjan Malla by impersonating himself as a bank manager and told him that he (Malla) […]

Phulbani: In yet another shocking and shameful incident, a one-and-a-half-year old girl child was allegedly raped by her uncle in Kandhamal district. As per the police complaint filed by the child’s mother, the accused took the girl while she was playing outside her home on Tuesday. When the accused did not return with the girl […]

Bargarh: A woman was killed and three other members of a family sustained critical injuries after four unidentified miscreants attacked them at Bairakhapali village in the town late last night. As per reports, while family members of one, Khirondra Meher of the village was fast asleep at their house, four bike-borne miscreants suddenly attacked the […]

Talcher: A dreaded criminal reportedly involved in several loot cases was nabbed after a police encounter near Lingaraj mines in Talcher of Angul district late last night. The criminal, identified as Badal Rout of Nalagunda village in Bhadrak has sustained bullet injuries in right thigh in the encounter. He was initially rushed to the Talcher […]

Bhubaneswar: Continuing its crackdown on drug trade, Excise officials today arrested two auto rickshaw drivers for selling brown sugar in Bhubaneswar. The sleuths nabbed the auto drivers from Baramunda bus stand and Indradhanu market and also seized brown sugar worth Rs 3 lakh from their possession. One of the accused said that a person used […]