Tag: Nayagarh

Nayagarh: A day after three of its students were arrested by police on charges of ragging, the Divine Residential College here today shot off a letter to their guardians to collect the College Leaving Certificate (CLCs) and other documents of their wards. “As your ward is indulged (sic) in indiscipline activities in torturing his roommates […]

Nayagarh: The Higher Education department has asked the authorities of the Divine Residential College here to immediately rusticate three students for brutally ragging their roommate. Sources said the Regional Director, Higher Education, has asked the college authorities to submit a detailed report on the incident by tomorrow. The directive of the department came after a […]

Nayagarh: Police sealed a private clinic here following tension over the death of a patient this morning. Reports said Santosh Kumar Parida of Itamati area had come to a private clinic in Nayagarh town for treatment this morning. After examining the patient, Dr LN Bisoyee administered him an injection. Soon after, Pradhan started vomiting and […]

Nayagarh: A joint team of Vigilance officials from Bhubaneswar, Khurda and Nayagarh zones today caught Binod Das, principal of Police Training School (PTS), red-handed while he was accepting a bribe of Rs 75,000 from the in-charge ASI of the school. The principal was later arrested. Talking to media persons, Haramohan Pati, Vigilance DSP of Nayagarh […]

Two persons were sentenced to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment in connection with the gang rape of a minor girl in Nayagarh.

A youth was arrested by the district police on Tuesday for allegedly making calls to Dasapalla legislator Purna Nayak and asking him for Rs 25 lakh identifying himself as a Maoist

Nayagarh: Eleven days after the brutal murder of a college girl, police today arrested the prime accused and his associate.

Nayagarh: Vigilance sleuths on Thursday arrested senior clerk of Odagaon block office Bijay Kumar Giri while he was taking a bribe of Rs 500. According to sources, one Kashinath Prdhan had done a construction work worth Rs 1 lakh under the Member of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme (MPLAD). Giri had asked Pradhan to give […]

Barely 24 hours after fire brigades, Forest staffs and local volunteers managed to bring the fire at Rukhi hill forest near Nayagarh town under control on Friday night, fire again broke out on two sides of the forest shortly before noon on Saturday

Fire brigade personnel doused the fire in the Rukhi hill forest near Nayagarh town late on Friday night

Nayagarh: A man was killed and four others sustained critical injuries after a bomb went off accidentally near a medicine store in Daspalla in Nayagarh district today. Kanhucharan Nayak was carrying the explosive in his bag, which accidentally exploded at Durga Bazar area killing him on the spot and injuring four others critically, police said. […]

Nayagarh: Nayagarh police on Sunday arrested seven persons posing as Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel.

Odagan Police on Tuesday arrested two persons for fraudulently withdrawing cash from the account of a college teacher from an ATM counter

Nayagarh: A 14-feet-long King Cobra was rescued from a well at Pathara village in Odagaon in the district by a team of forest officials and People for Animal (PFA) on Thursday morning. According to sources, some villagers found the longest venomous reptile in an abandoned well near a piece of agricultural land and informed forest […]

Nayagarh: In a bizarre case, a newly-married man was detained by the police for ditching his wife by branding her as a Kinnar (transgender) after medical tests proved otherwise. The incident reported from Dimirijhari area in Nayagarh district has predictably led to a lot of chatter among the locals. The man identified as Anant Nayak […]