A five-wicket haul by Umesh Yadav helped Vidarbha beat Odisha by 73 runs in the Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 tournament. ...
09:18 PM, Mar 27, 2013
The Saurashtra batsman is yet to make his ODI debut, but from 61 domestic one-day matches, he has an average of 56.97 with eight hundreds and 17 half-centuries. ...
12:23 PM, Mar 27, 2013
The Odisha Assembly was adjourned for the second day on Tuesday over demands for the arrest of former law minister Raghunath Mohanty. Mohanty and his family members are facing charges of dowry torture of his daughter-in-law. ...
12:55 PM, Mar 26, 2013
A police havildar, who went to the Odisha Congress' headquarters in Bhubaneswar to apprehend those indulging in violence, on Monday was beaten up allegedly by party workers, police said. The incident allegedly took place when Havildar Nimai Charan Sahu entered Congress Bhavan in a bid to nab some people who tried to set afire a city bus carrying passengers. ...
02:15 AM, Mar 26, 2013
Former Odisha law minister Raghunath Mohanty, accused in a dowry case, has gone absconding. He and his family members are facing charges of dowry and torture after a complaint filed by his daughter in law. ...
03:50 PM, Mar 25, 2013
A court in Odisha on Friday sentenced to death a man who murdered a minor girl and then indulged in sex with her corpse in the state's Jharsuguda district. District and Sessions Judge Shyam Sunder Mishra pronounced the capital punishment to 22-year-old Minaketan Seth at the district headquarters town of Jharsuguda for the crime he committed in Kandeikela village on October 9, 2009. ...
08:14 PM, Mar 22, 2013
The much delayed Posco mega steel plant in Odisha's Jagasinghpur district might be commissioned in 2018, the company said on Thursday. "Hoping to get the required land in this year, the first phase 8 MTPA Integrated Steel Plant may get commissioned in the early 2018," a press release issued by Posco-India said. ...
07:20 PM, Mar 21, 2013
A 32-year-old Dalit woman and mother of four, was allegedly gangraped in a remote village in Kendrapara district. Police has detained two accused involved in the crime committed on March 19 at Ghodadanda village in Patkura area, after the victim lodged an FIR on Wednesday night. ...
06:35 PM, Mar 21, 2013
With intensified combing operations by security forces, the Maoists, who were calling the shots in Narayanpatna area of Odisha's Koraput district since 2009, have retreated to the forests. Around 90 Maoists were arrested and at least three others killed in encounters with the police since January, 2012, official sources said. ...
12:41 PM, Mar 19, 2013
There were 3987 infiltrators in Odisha and all of them hail from Bangladesh, the state assembly was told on Monday. "The state has no infiltrators from any country except Bangladesh," Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik said while replying to a written question in the assembly. ...
04:21 AM, Mar 19, 2013
The Kerala Police have taken Bitti Mohanty, convicted in March 2006 for raping a 26-year-old German national in a hotel in Alwar, back to Kannur after questioning him in Cuttack. Bitti will remain in the custody of the Kerala Police till March 21. ...
08:33 AM, Mar 18, 2013
The Odisha Police on Sunday arrested the son of former Law Minister Raghunath Mohanty in the dowry torture case filed by his wife. Raghunath Mohanty had to resign as Law Minister after his daughter-in-law, Barsha, filed the case against him, his son Rajasree, his wife and other family members. ...
09:45 AM, Mar 17, 2013
After nearly four hours of questioning of Bitti's father, the special investigation team of Kerala Police said on Saturday that BB Mohanty was innocent and didn't help his son jump parole and assume a fake identity of Raghav Rajan. ...
10:11 PM, Mar 16, 2013
Bitti's father former Odisha DGP BB Mohanty is innocent, said Kerala Police after quizzing him in Cuttak on Saturday. A special investigation team of Kerala Police, which is probing impersonation and forgery charges against Bitihotra Mohanty, convicted for raping a German woman, interrogated BB Mohanty at the office of the Deputy Commissioner of Police. ...
06:04 PM, Mar 16, 2013
Former Odisha DGP BB Mohanty was on Saturday quizzed by a Special Investigation Team (SIT) of Kerala police probing impersonation and forgery charges against his German rape case convict son Bitti Mohanty. Before questioning the retired IPS officer, the four-member Kerala police SIT met the present Director General of Police Prakash Mishra at the state police headquarters in Cuttack and apprised him of the case following the arrest of a...
04:50 PM, Mar 16, 2013
Questions are being raised about the way rape convict Bitti Mohanty was being treated in Alwar where he had been taken earlier. He reportedly spent the night in an air-conditioned room in a guest house instead of the prison. This VIP treatment was reportedly given to him at the expense of the Alwar Police. ...
03:08 PM, Mar 16, 2013
Kerala Police on Saturday began questioning of rape convict Bitti Mohanty's father BB Mohanty in Cuttack. Earlier there was a delay in questioning the former Odisha DGP as they did not have permission from the Kerala DGP. Bitti's father is being interrogated for his role in helping his son evade arrest for seven years. ...
01:30 PM, Mar 16, 2013
The identity of German woman rape case convict Bitti Mohanty was on Saturday established after Kerala Police matched his finger prints and examined records. ...
07:29 AM, Mar 16, 2013
Rape convict Bitti Mohanty, on the run for six years, will be taken back to Kerala from Rajasthan on Saturday. ...
11:37 PM, Mar 15, 2013
Kerala Police on Friday confirmed that rape convict Bitti Mohanty forged his B.Tech certificate from KIIT University in Bhubaneswar and the certificate is in the name of Raghav Rajan, the alias he used for several years while living in Kannur in Kerala. ...
12:27 PM, Mar 15, 2013
