Bhubaneswar: It is that time of the year when the winter chill draws people out for a picnic trip with their friends and family. However, during this period, road mishaps also rise and in a bid to minimise loss of human lives, Odisha Police has decided to intensify patrolling near picnic spots starting from December […]
Bhubaneswar: How shaky the police reforms are in Odisha was to the fore, when the State government in complete violation of the apex court directions went ahead in appointing acting or incharge DGP in August this year. The country’s apex court in its landmark ruling last year had directed states/UTs not to appoint acting or […]
Bhubaneswar: Odisha’s tryst with the new Motor Vehicles Act (MVA) has turned out to be a soap opera of the year, with people virtually spending sleepless nights on roads and CM Naveen Patnaik recommending another extension, albeit with a rider of no more extension. The moot point here is, in implementing the amended motor Vehicles […]
Bhubaneswar: When the new MVA act has put the glare on accidents caused by human error, the shocker is nonchalant attitude of government-owned road utilities (Odisha Works department, Municipal and National Highway Authorities) killed nearly 3 lives every day in 2018. Poor road features account for 19 per cent of road fatalities in Odisha. As […]
Bhubaneswar: It seems that Odisha Police is now on a new mission – ‘zero tolerance’ towards traffic violations especially drunken driving. Going by the figures, Odisha Police has arrested 8,583 persons for drunken driving during special drives launched across the State during the last three months since the implementation of the new Motor Vehicles Act […]
Bhubaneswar: Hailing the mechanism of Odisha police, senior IPS officer Abhay who took charge as the Head of Odisha Police Force at the State Police headquarters in Cuttack today, stressed on increasing the efficiency in implementation of Mo Sarkar and 5T model for better policing apart from improving standard of investigation process. The 1986-batch IPS officer of […]
Bhubaneswar: At a time when police action or inaction is frequently being questioned and the cops are shying away from responding, Twin City Police Commissioner Sudhanshu Sarangi has come up with a novel concept of facing it all. He has made his twitter handle open to all users for questioning him. Time and again, Sarangi […]
Cuttack: The Orissa High Court, based on a report of the Amicus Curiae, has directed Odisha Police DG to file an affidavit in connection with the alleged inaction of police during recent motorcycle rally by Biju Janata Dal (BJD), when hundreds of party workers were seen driving bikes without wearing helmet. The directive came when […]
Bhubaneswar: True to the saying that politics is the art of looking trouble, ruling party spokesperson Lenin Mohanty discovers one in the Special Police Officer concept of Commissionerate Police. The BJD spokesperson finds the Women Empowerment for Gender Sensitive (WE GS) notion of police Commissioner Sudhanshu Sarangi gender- biased. He went on to charge the […]
Koraput: Taking a humongous leap in her career, lady constable Ritu Singh serving with Odisha Police has proved that women, though have one life to live like others, can do wonders like none else. She has cracked the State Civil Services Examination 2018 conducted by the Odisha Public Service Commission (OPSC), securing 204 rank leaving […]
Bhubaneswar: Even as Odisha ranks among top-10 states in prevalence of child marriages, State police could rescue only 22 victims under Prohibition of Child Marriages (PCM) Act in 2018. In contrast, Tamil Nadu, which is among top-10 low child marriage incidence states in country, registered a high of 67 cases. As per NCRB report 2018, […]
Bhubaneswar: The Commissionerate Police on Sunday arrested the lady lecturer of a private college and an official of a private bank on charges of rape and blackmail allegations levelled by them against each other respectively. Three others accused of being involved in the case have also been arrested by police. Chandrasekhar Police arrested one Sunil […]
Sambalpur: Body of woman, who went missing from Bahalpada village in Sambalpur district on January 1, was found buried following which Dhanupali Police exhumed the decomposed body today. A team of Dhanupali Police rushed to a jungle near Amburi village along with the deceased woman Arati Devi’s husband Kunal Singh and exhumed her body in […]
By Ashutosh Mishra Bhubaneswar: The attack on a Sikh businessman in the city a few days ago in the presence of policemen manning a PCR van that had arrived following his SOS call has not done any good to the image of the men in khaki. In fact, the incident, which has since acquired a […]
Cuttack: Expediting investigation into the escape of dreaded gangster Sheikh Hyder from SCB Medical College and Hospital in Cuttack, Mangalabag police on Tuesday arrested two more persons including a constable,…
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