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Kalahandi: Body of a woman was found perched atop a tree with saree tied around her neck at Guturu Nagafeni village under Jaipatna police limits in Kalahandi district on Monday. The woman has been identified as Kunti Rout( 26). She was…

Jagatsinghpur: Wife of Krushna Chandra Champati, who succumbed to burn injuries in Jagatsinghpur district headquarters hospital, on Monday alleged that her husband was brunt alive over an extra-marital affair with a married woman. Champati…

Kendrapada:  Two criminals wanted for the murder of a medicine dealer were arrested after a late night police encounter in Kendrapara district on Friday. The two criminals, Anant Prasad Jena alias Bhelu and Pravat Kumar Nayak alias Mituna,…

Bhubaneswar: Thirteen days after the arrest of Kishore Anchal alias Raja in connection with the murder of his girlfriend and nurse Niharika Patra, the parents of the deceased on Thursday filed a petition with the Odisha Human Rights…

Jagatsinghpur: The Sub-Divisional Judicial Magistrate (SDJM) court remanded Kishore Anchal alias Raja, the prime accused in the murder of nurse Niharika Patra, to three-day police custody for interrogation. SP (Jagatsinghpur) R Prakash…

Jagatsinghpur: The Odisha Police, which is investigating the murder of Niharika Patra, a nurse, whose body was recovered from the Biluakhai riverbed under Biridi police limits in Jagatsinghpur district on Tuesday, has decided to conduct the…

Bhubaneswar: One platoon of armed police has been deployed at Rangamatia near Mancheswar here after an eatery owner was hacked to death on Tuesday night. Police suspect the murder to be the fall out of an enmity between two groups of…

Jagatsinghpur: A special POCSO court here on Tuesday awarded death penalty to Kalia Mana for the rape and murder of a minor girl at Ersama in Odisha’s Jagatsinghpur district. According to case records, Kalia had picked up a nine-year-old…

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…

Sambalpur: A lecturer was found in a pool of blood at his quarters under Sason police limits in Sambalpur district on Friday morning. The deceased was identified as Hrudananda Pradhan (47), a native of Balianali in Deogarh district. He was…