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Raipur: In another heart-wrenching, horror story during the coronavirus-induced lockdown, a 78-year-old man died of a heart attack after being held up at a border check post for over an hour. Keshav Mishra, a resident of Umaria, was being…

Bhubaneswar: Congress criticised Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik for being absent in the Assembly during a discussion on the death of Haridaspur PEO Smitarani Biswal on Thursday. During the discussion, the leader of the Congress Legislature…

Bhubaneswar: Police on Thursday arrested an accused in the gang-rape of a woman in a car in Khurda town. Police have also seized the car used in the crime. The arrest came a day after the victim was found lying in a critical condition on…

Bhubaneswar: Six days after the death of Smitarani Biswal, a panchayat extension officer (PEO) in Jajpur district, her husband Sushil Kumar Biswal has moved the Odisha Human Rights Commission (OHRC) for a fresh investigation. Biswal told…

Bhubaneswar: A student of the IIT-Bhubaneswar reportedly died after falling from the top floor of the hostel late on Monday night. He has been identified as Chirag Pravin Jain, a native of Pune in Maharashtra, a second-year student of…

Bhubaneswar: Director General of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) Yogesh Chander Modi will arrive in Odisha on October 3 on a one-day visit. Sources in the state police said that Modi, accompanied a team of senior NIA officials,…

Kendrapara: Panic gripped Kendrapara after a medicine dealer was shot dead by two unidentified men on Wednesday. Sources said the victim, Gagan Sahu, owned a medicine shop at Manikunda. Sahu was going to Kendrapara town when the bike-borne…

Bhubaneswar: Two Odisha policemen are among 96 to have been conferred with the ‘Union Home Minister’s Medal for Excellence in Investigation’ for the year 2019. The two cops are Koraput SP Kanwar Vishal Singh and Odisha Crime Branch SP…