Tag: Baripada

Baripada: A senior police officer sustained severe head injury in a clash between police and locals that erupted during an anti-liquor protest in Musamari village under Rasgobindpur police limits of Mayurbhanj district on Monday. According to reports, around eight persons were injured in the clash. As per sources, hundreds of women took to the streets […]

Baripada: Police claims to have cracked the mystery behind the Baripada missing teacher case after the body of the teacher Sudhir Mahant was recovered by police from Ambajoda forest under Betnoti block of Mayurbhanj district today. Mahant was missing since September 25. As per reports, Mahant was kidnapped from his house, taken to the forest […]

Baripada: Irate locals staged protest before the Town Police Station here after a police official thrashed a minor girl during a helmet checking drive on Monday. The policeman was later suspended for dereliction of duty today. ASI Sushant Mahakud of Town Police Station allegedly thrashed a minor girl during helmet checking drive following which locals […]

Baripada: She had a love marriage at the young age of 17 but her dreams were shattered after being pushed into flesh trade by her husband. Seven years later, family members found her in a pitiable condition at Baripada Medical College in Mayurbhanj district. The woman is undergoing treatment at the medicine ward of Baripada […]

Baripada: Kartik Singh’s attempt of carrying his old parents on a sling to appear in a woman harassment case before the court has caught everyone’s attention. Kartik walked nearly 40 km barefoot from his home at Mohanpur under Morada police limits with his old parents on a sling hung upon his shoulders. Sources said Kartik, […]

Baripada: A woman was hacked to death by nephew on suspicion of practising sorcery at Thakursahi village under Kaptipada police limits last evening. When the deceased, identified as Gumi Murmu, had gone to a local market, nephew Rupal Murmu called his aunt to nearby river bank and slit her throat with a sharp weapon. Cops […]

Bhubaneswar: Even three days after the Supreme Court judgment directing 100 per cent penalty on illegal mining, the State government is still in the dark on the amount of fine to be imposed on the lessees and analysing legal aspects of the order to finalise the amount. The delay in issuing notice to the illegal […]

Baripada: After a wait for around 13 months, a girl child united with her mother in Baripada town of Mayurbhanj district on Thursday. The girl child, a resident of Ward number 17 of Baripada town, had gone missing and a police complaint on it was registered in June 8, 2016. Only after OTV telecast recently […]

Baripada: Four persons including three of a family were roughed for allegedly eloping with a married woman of Takatpur area in ward number 24 here on Sunday. Reports said Sashikant Chand resident of Bhelura village in Basta block of Balasore along with his father, uncle and their driver were beaten black and blue after being […]

Mayurbhanj: Three people were reportedly killed and another was injured after a speeding dumper truck hit two motorcyclists and bicyclist at Hatibandha Chhak in Udala-Baripada road of Mayurbhanj district on Friday. The incident occurred when the driver of dumper lost control after a collision with a tractor and hit three persons. The deceased have been […]

Baripada: Karanjia health centre in Mayurbhanj district today witnessed a shocking scene when  a man shot with an arrow reached there riding a bike. With the arrow piercing his stomach, Ajay Mahant, a resident of Nishaposi under Thakurmunda police station here, reached the hospital for treatment. Ajay had a dispute with one Indramani of same […]

Baripada/Koraput: The countdown for much awaited commencement of academic session at the two newly established  medical colleges in the state has begun with just days remaining before students finally turn up to kick off their career here at Baripada based Raghunath Murmu Medical College and Laxman Nayak Medical College in Koraput. Both the colleges have […]

Baripada: A person who allegedly duped Lakhs of rupees in the name of providing employment and loan was nabbed from Jamshedpur in Jharkhand and handed over to Baripada police today. According to reports, the accused, Sanjib Kumar Chowdhury opened a non-banking organisation named ‘Ujjwal Odisha’ where he duped around 30 people in the pretext of […]

Baripada: Photo of six police staff kneeling down as part of punishment given by higher-ups created more flutter among public in Mayurbhanj on Friday close on the heels of the controversy surrounding the four home guards who were meted the same treatment last Wednesday. While the previous incident was attributed to ‘dress code violation’, the […]

Bhubaneswar/Baripada: The Odisha Human Rights Commission (OHRC) on Thursday asked the Mayurbhanj Superintendent of Police (SP) and Director General of Home Guard to submit their respective inquiry reports on the ‘Kneel Punishment’ given to the Home Guards over dress code violation in Baripada of Mayurbhanj district. OHRC issued this direction acting on a petition filed […]