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Sambalpur: Tension ran high in Gangadhar Meher University campus in Sambalpur town on Thursday after students of the Plus Two Junior College locked up the main gate and sat on a dharna in protest against transfer of eight lecturers. One…

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,…

Sambalpur: A dreaded criminal Amit Sahu was arrested after he was injured in an encounter with the police on the outskirts of Sambalpur city on Friday evening. Acting on a tip-off about the presence of Amit near a temple in Khetrajpur, a…

Berhampur: Police are on the lookout for a youth, who allegedly assaulted a minor girl and her relative near Gopalpur Chhak, on the outskirts of Berhampur, on Sunday night. According to sources, the motorcycle-borne youth blocked their way…

Bhawanipatna: The police on Friday said that they will record a fresh statement of the 22-year-old woman who was allegedly gangraped inside Jaring forest in Junagarh in Kalahandi district. In a statement to the media, she said that the bus…

Kendrapara: Police on Friday arrested 10 more brokers, including a woman, from government hospitals in five districts. Three brokers were arrested in Balasore, three in Kendrapara, two in Nabarangpur, a woman broker in Jagatsinghpur and…

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…

Bhubaneswar: The decomposed body of a youth was recovered from Kuakhai river on the outskirts of Bhubaneswar on Sunday. Sources said some locals at Bankuala near Balianta found the body floating on the water. Later, Balianta police and…

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: Tension ran high on Utkal University campus here on Monday after some students gheraoed the office of Vice Chancellor Soumendra Mohan Patnaik and staged a sit-in dharna. Talking to the media, the agitating students said…