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A girl who was recently travelling in a Mo Bus in Bhubaneswar narrated about the creepiest encounters she has ever experienced during a bus ride.

As per the NCRB data released recently, Odisha tops the list of states where women have been targeted through cyber pornography and morphing.

The crime rate per 1 lakh women was 112.9 in 2020. In 2021, it rose to 137.8.

Unable to bear the trauma and fearing social stigma, the girl consumed poison after returning home.  

Panic gripped the Shailashree Vihar area under Chandrasekharpur police limits in Bhubaneswar after a youth allegedly attacked a woman and her daughter with a knife on Monday afternoon.

A report released by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) last month, reveals that in Odisha crimes against women in 2020 rose nearly 10% over the previous year, one of the biggest spurts in the whole country.

The BJP National Vice President said the deterioration in the crime rate against women clearly shows the timid response of the State government.

The lethal combo of the active involvement of local organised gangs in the crime and a poor conviction rate has emboldened the perpetrators in the district. Odisha 5th in gangrapes in country

The 82-year-old deceased woman, identified as Kusum, wife of one Bhagirathi Nayak, was found in a decomposed condition in one of the rooms at her house.

Mumbai has also recorded a decrease in crime against women as it recorded 4,583 cases last year in comparison to 6,519 cases in 2019 while Jaipur reported 2,369 cases over 3,417 during the same period.

An unknown miscreant made a failed attempt to kidnap a five-year-old girl before cancelling the plan midway due to apparent fear of being caught after the child raised an alarm.

Following the allegations of rape of a woman doctor, OMCA has demanded full protection of doctors and medical staff

The areas where the progress of Odisha requires much greater political, social and governance focus are too critical to be trivialised by political cacophony.

In a development that seems to point fingers at the efficacy of the police department, identity of a woman reportedly murdered in the outskirts of the city still remains a mystery, despite nine years into the case.

An elderly woman approached the Commissionerate Police here today accusing her son of showing ill-treatment to her and denying her Aadhaar Card for Covid vaccination. 

Bhubaneswar: Amid the sudden spurt in crimes against women and children in Odisha, the State unit of Congress on Friday turned the heat on the BJD government and announced that the party will launch massive state-wide demonstrations over the deteriorating situation. OPCC president Niranjan Patnaik said the Congress will stage peaceful demonstrations in front of […]

Bhubaneswar: Notwithstanding the COVID lockdown, all sort of police bandobust, major restrictions like night curfew in the State since March -June this year, the rape count in Odisha didn’t show any pandemic let up signs. Rather it touched a new high during the first six months of this pandemic year. The rapes this year have […]

New Delhi: Asserting that central government believes in “zero tolerance in criminal and terror cases”, Union Minister of State for Home G Kishan Reddy on Tuesday assured that it will take all steps to ensure “speedy and decisive justice” to all victims of crimes against women and the downtrodden. “Under the leadership of Union Home […]

Bhubaneswar/New Delhi: The Union Home Ministry has asked all states and Union Territories (UTs) directing them for “mandatory” police action with compulsory registration of First Information Report (FIR) in cases of crimes against women. The MHA’s stricter guidelines comes closely on the heels of shocking crimes against women in Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras and other states […]

Bulandshahr: A 16-year-old girl has forwarded a complaint of gang rape to the police on WhatsApp after she was found pregnant. The teen has claimed she was raped multiple times by three men during a course of over one-and-half years. A team led by a woman circle officer was sent to the girl’s home where […]