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Angul: A youth was arrested for staging his own kidnap in order to extract money from his father here. Three friends of the accused were also held for their alleged complicity in the crime, police said on Monday. The youth was identified…

Bhubaneswar: Continuing its drive against touts operating at public places, Odisha police on Sunday arrested 16 middlemen from eight places in the state. The public places under scanner include hospitals, medical colleges, blood banks,…

Bhubaneswar: DGP BK Sharma informed that 31 middlemen were arrested on Saturday from 10 different places of Odisha. Interestingly, out of these, nine, the highest number were arrested from Regional Transport Offices in Jajpur. The tally in…

Bhubaneswar: In a swift move following Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik's directive to Chief District Medical Officers (CDMOs) to keep hospitals out of bounds for middlemen, the DGP BK Sharma initiated a statewide special drive against…

Deogarh: Forest department personnel arrested six persons near Chhatabar Ghat in Deogarh for allegedly smuggling a leopard skin from Sundergarh to Sambalpur district late on Monday. Two of the accused were identified as Debendra Ranachuria…

Malkangiri: Border Security Force (BSF) personnel arrested two Maoists of Malkangiri district, from Annavaram of Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh on Monday. The arrested Maoists have been identified as Bantala Bonjibabu and Kora Sudru. They…

Cuttack: Badambadi police have arrested a man from Kandarpur here on charges of duping a youth on the pretext of giving job. The accused has been identified as Sheikh Mudin, a native of Jajpur. According to sources, the accused took Rs…

Bhadrak: Police on Monday arrested a man for allegedly killing his one-month-old son in an inebriated state at New Colony of Gelatua under Bhadrak Rural police limits in the district. The incident took place on August 30. According to…

Cuttack: In the first such case, a man arrested for drunken driving will be taken to court on Saturday. The accused, Rakesh Panda, was arrested at Nuabazar in Cuttack's Chauliaganj area on Friday. A police patrol team had intercepted…

Kolkata: BJP MP Roopa Ganguly’s son was arrested for dangerous driving after he rammed his car into a wall of an upscale Kolkata club, police said on Friday. Media reports suggested that 20-year-old Akash Mukhopadhyay was drunk during the…