Cuttack

Cuttack: A day after a fire at the BSNL office in Cuttack disrupted phone and broadband services in the city and eight adjoining districts, BSNL on Saturday said efforts were on to restore services within a week. “The restoration work to…

Jagatsinghpur: A man accused of murdering his girlfriend, who was a nurse at a private hospital in Cuttack, surrendered to police at Biridi in Jagatsinghpur on Friday. The accused, Kishore Chandra Anchal alias Raja, surrendered three days …

Cuttack: The Special POCSO (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences) Court, Cuttack on Thursday awarded the death sentence to Mohammad Mushtaq for the rape and murder of a six-year-old girl in Cuttack district on April 24, 2018. The…

Bhubaneswar: As part of the jail reforms, the Odisha government is going to launch a novel scheme in which jail inmates will become radio jockeys. Sources in the Directorate of Prisons & Correctional Services said that Jail Radio will…

Jagatsinghpur: The boyfriend of a nurse and five others were detained on charges of murdering her and then dumping her body in a river. The six were detained a day after police found the body of the nurse, Niharika Patra, in Biluakhai river…

Cuttack: Odisha is experiencing an alarming rise in kidney disease with the number of those affected increasing almost by 14 times in a span of seven years between 2011 and 2018. According to the information available from the dialysis…

Bhubaneswar: The Mahandi continued to swell worsening flood situation in the riverside districts of Odisha. In Jagatsinghpur district, floodwater of Mahanadi and Paika rivers entered Saharadiha, Jillanasi, Phulabelari, Bhandua, Haripur and…

Khurda/Puri/Cuttack: With the Mahanadi continuing to swell, flood situation in three coastal districts of Odisha has further worsened. In Khurda district, floodwater of Rajua, the tributary of Daya river, entered several villages of…

Cuttack: A hardcore criminal was injured in an encounter with the Commissionerate Police here late on Tuesday. The injured criminal, identified as Budhia Das, has been admitted to SCB Medical College and Hospital here. Acting on a tip-off…

Khurda/Puri/Cuttack: The flood situation remained grim in three coastal districts of Odisha on Tuesday following rise in the water level of the Mahanadi. In Khurda district, the floodwater of Rajua river marooned thousands of people in 20…