Briefs

Cuttack: A Plus III student of Ravenshaw University was killed in a road accident here on Thursday afternoon. Reports said the victim Annapurna Choudhury, a Plus III second-year student, was riding a scooty on her way to her home at…

Berhampur: Several low-lying areas in this city were flooded following two hours of torrential rainfall on Thursday morning. According to reports, rainwater has entered several houses at Gajapati Nagar, Gandhi Nagar, Tulasi Nagar, Braja…

Bhubaneswar: The regional meteorological centre here on Thursday issued thunderstorm and lightning warning with one or two spells of moderate rainfall for several districts of Odisha. The alert has been sounded for Puri, Cuttack, Ganjam,…

Bhubaneswar: Bhubaneswar-Mumbai Konark Express (Train No. 11020) will remain cancelled on September 6, according to an ECoR press release. The train has been cancelled in view of heavy rainfall and waterlogging in Mumbai Division. The…

Explosion in a firecracker factory at Batala in Punjab's Gurdaspur district on Wednesday reportedly claimed 10 lives. Many more are feared trapped inside the factory, according to media reports. Fire fighters have reached the spot and are…

Cuttack: The Commissionerate Police have arrested a youth here for allegedly sodomising a six-year-old boy. The accused have been identified as Chintamani Naik (21). He is a resident of Swargadhama in Jagannath Colony under Madhupatana…

Balangir: Three persons were electrocuted in two separate incidents in Balangir district on Wednesday. A woman from Agalapur village near Loisingha came in contact with a live wire when had gone to the roof of her house to dry clothes.…

Balasore: A woman, who was allegedly raped by a youth at Kashipur in Soro police limits in Balasore district, lodged a complaint with police on Tuesday after a video of the incident went viral on social media. The incident had taken…

Amit Jogi, former MLA and the son of former Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Ajit Jogi, has been arrested from his house in Bilaspur for allegedly giving wrong information in his election affidavit about his birth date and place. The arrest…

Bhubaneswar: Police unearthed a fake oil manufacturing unit at Laxmisagar here and arrested three persons including a priest of a temple on Tuesday. Acting on a tip-off, police raided a house in the Housing Board Colony and seized hundreds…