Rayagada

Rayagada: Protesting the construction of a new road, Maoists set fire to three JCB machines near Tikarapada village in Muniguda block of Rayagada district on Friday night. According to reports, around 15 Maoists arrived at a contractor’s…

Puri: A CRPF jawan was arrested on Sunday for his alleged involvement in the gang rape of a minor girl inside a police quarter in Puri a week ago. The accused, Bulu Barik, was arrested from Rayagada district. The prime accused, Jitendra…

Rayagada: A wanted criminal was injured in an encounter with the police inside a forest in Odisha’s Rayagada district in the wee hours of Monday. The injured criminal, Hadapa Siba, was admitted to the district headquarters hospital and…

Rayagada: Security personnel on Thursday busted a Maoist camp inside Karkamarka forest under Ambadala police limits in Odisha’s Rayagada district and seized a landmine and several Maoist articles. Acting on a tip-off about the presence of…

Rayagada: Two youths drowned during the Boita Bandana ceremony in Odisha’s Rayagada district on Tuesday. According to reports, one Suman Behera of Muniguda and an engineering student of Utkal Gourav Madhusudan Institute of Technology…

Family members pressurised them to get married. In spite of begging for help, no one came to their rescue. And when they were still unmoved, kidnapping attempts were made. They were even beaten and verbally abused. But they still didn’t…

Rayagada: The Rayagada district administration on Saturday ordered a probe after one person died and over 20 villagers fell seriously ill after consuming spurious country liquor at Kataguda village on Friday. Following a directive from…

Rayagada: As many as 14 villagers were arrested for vandalism on the Utkal Alumina plant premises and clashing with police at Tikiri in Rayagada district, police said on Saturday. Following the incident on Friday evening, the district…

Close on the heels of Cuttack’s D Prakash Rao, a tea seller who runs a charity school called "Asha O Ashwasana" for children from slums in Buxi Bazaar and was also awarded Padma Shri this year, comes Rayagada’s Kamleshwar Sahu. He may not…

Rayagada: While the government has sanctioned only eggs to be served on some days in midday meals at state-run schools, ministers and officials seem to be an exception. Culture and Tourism Minister Jyoti Prakash Panigrahi, who visited…