OCA announced a 15-member Ranji Team, which will be led by Natraj Behera in first two matches. ...
08:05 PM, Oct 29, 2012
Phulbani: A 13-year-old girl was murdered after being allegedly gangraped by some youths in Odisha's Kandhamal district, police said on Saturday. The girl, A Class VII student of Dadamaha, had gone to witness a 'yatra' (play) at nearby Simanbadi village on Thursday night when the youths sexually assaulted her, sub-divisional police officer (SDPO), Baliguda, Arjun Barik said. As the girl apparently attempted to raise an alarm, she was strangulated to...
02:27 PM, Oct 27, 2012
Bhubaneswar: The India Against Corruption (IAC), led by anti-corruption crusader-turned-politician Arvind Kejriwal, on Friday announced its plan to field candidates for all the 147 assembly and 21 Lok Sabha seats in Odisha. "While the ruling BJD has turned out to be a 'dalal' of capitalists, both Congress and BJP have failed as the opposition. IAC will emerge as an alternative for the people of Odisha," Manish Sisodia, a core committee...
11:15 PM, Oct 26, 2012
Mumbai: Twenty three-year-old Bidushi Dash is the latest on the list of young women who have met an untimely death in Mumbai. Dash's body was discovered by her husband Kedar Badra at their flat in Andheri on Monday night. Her body had injuries caused by glass shards, said police sources. Bidushi's husband Kedar had left home at 8 am on Monday morning. He said that he tried calling her around...
06:46 PM, Oct 24, 2012
Mumbai: The Mumbai Police on Wednesday launched a probe into the call records of the Mumbai-based actor-model Bidushi Dash Barde, who was found dead in her Mumbai apartment on Monday night. Police sources said that they were investigating the more than 100 missed calls and 200 text messages that she received on the day she died. Meanwhile, Bidushi's husband, Kedar Barde, who found her body in their flat in Andheri,...
05:09 PM, Oct 24, 2012
Bhubaneswar: A team of the Justice MB Shah Commission of enquiry will visit Odisha again on October 31 to further investigate the alleged mining illegalities in the state, official sources said on Sunday. The state government has been informed that the team of the Commission led by senior bureaucrat UV Singh will arrive in Bhubaneswar on October 31 and stay in the state to conduct the investigation until November 11,...
12:48 PM, Oct 21, 2012
Berhampur: In a horrifying incident, a woman allegedly set ablaze her 15-year-old stepdaughter at a village in Odisha's Ganjam district, police said on Saturday. The accused, identified as Runu Jena, a mother of two children, was arrested for allegedly committing the crime at Ambapua village in Kabisurya Nagar area, the police said. The girl Janaki, a student of 10th Class, was first admitted to a health centre at Kabisurya Nagar...
10:14 AM, Oct 14, 2012
Bhubaneswar: A three-year-old girl is suspected to have been kidnapped and raped before being murdered by a man from her village in Odisha's Sambalpur district, police said on Sunday. The matter came to light after the victim's body was found in a forest on Sunday about seven km from her village Budhiapali, about 355 km from state capital Bhubaneswar. According to Additional Deputy Superintendent of Police DK Deo, a 30-year-old...
09:28 PM, Oct 07, 2012
Balasore: India successfully test-fired nuclear capable Dhanush, the naval version of Prithvi short-range ballistic missile, from a warship off Odisha coast on Friday. The indigenously developed naval version of the Prithvi short-range ballistic missile has a strike range of up to 350 km and can carry 500 kg of conventional or nuclear warhead, a DRDO official said. "Dhanush was test-fired from a naval ship off Odisha coast at around 1125...
12:38 PM, Oct 05, 2012
Jajpur: Investigation into the sale of a baby boy by his mother in Odisha's Jajpur district has revealed curious details " the money was used to buy a mobile phone and a pair of jeans among other things. "Rakhi Patra of Mundamala village who sold her 17-month-old son for Rs 5000 purchased a new mobile phone, a pair of jeans, few new tops (to go with the jeans) and memory...
11:50 PM, Oct 03, 2012
Kolkata: Two personnel of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) were killed on Sunday during an anti-Naxal operation conducted jointly by West Bengal, Odisha and Jharkhand. The 184th battalion of the CRPF was engaged in search and combing operations in a forest in West Midnapore when the Naxals ambushed them, resulting in heavy exchange of gunfire. The two personnel were shot dead. The injured have been shifted to the West...
09:05 AM, Oct 01, 2012
Jajpur: In a desperate bid to arrange money to get her husband released from jail, a woman in Odisha's Jajpur district has allegedly sold off her 17-month-old son for Rs 5,000, police said on Monday. Rakhi Patra (20) of Mundamal village under Jajpur Road police station went to Cuttack on September 13 and handed the baby boy over to a person belonging to Jagatsinghpur, inspector-in-charge Aswini Kumar Sahu said. After...
04:23 AM, Sep 25, 2012
Nayagarh (Odisha): A government school teacher was on Sunday arrested on charge of having unnatural sex and showing obscene visuals to students from internet sites in Odisha's Nayagarh district, official sources said. Chandra Sekhar Choudhury, computer teacher of Navodaya School here, was arrested from Berhampur in Ganjam district on the basis of an FIR lodged by school principal B Hussain Appa on Saturday, Nayagarh sub-collector Manas Ranjan Debta said. The...
05:59 PM, Sep 23, 2012
Balasore: Two days after the successful trial of the long-range Agni-IV missile, India on Friday test-fired its nuclear-capable Agni-III ballistic missile with a strike range of 3000 km from an island off the Odisha coast. The indigenously developed surface-to-air missile, which can carry a warhead of 1.5 tonne protected by a carbon all composite heat shield, took off at 1315 hours from a mobile launcher at launch complex-4 of Integrated...
02:13 PM, Sep 21, 2012
Bhubaneswar: Normal life was disrupted in Odisha, barring the western region, due to disruption in train and road traffic during a bandh called by BJP and Left parties to protest diesel price hike, FDI in multi-brand retail and ceiling on subsidised LPG. State government offices, banks and insurance offices remained closed on the occasion of Nuakhai festival. Schools, colleges and other educational institutions remained closed due to the festival celebrated...
11:29 AM, Sep 20, 2012
Protestors also blocked trains at the Bhubaneswar railway stations since 6 am in the morning. ...
10:52 AM, Sep 20, 2012
Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister and BJD supremo Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday ruled out his party's support to the UPA government at the Centre which was facing "instability" following Trinamool Congress' decision to withdraw support. "Withdrawal of support by Trinamool Congress has put the Centre in an unstable and weak position. There is no question of support to the UPA government from BJD," Patnaik said before leaving for Delhi on a...
03:38 PM, Sep 19, 2012
Balasore: India on Wednesday test-fired its nuclear-capable strategic missile Agni-IV with a strike range of about 4000 km from a test range off Odisha coast. It was test launched with the help of a mobile launcher from launch complex-4 of ITR at Wheeler Island, about 100 km from Balasore, at about 1145 hours, defence sources said. A high performance on-board computer with distributed avionics architecture and high speed reliable communication...
01:23 PM, Sep 19, 2012
Bhubaneswar: In a curious incident, a surgeon in Bhubaneswar's Apollo Hospital sustained injuries in his abdomen near the hospital's operation theatre on Tuesday afternoon amidst allegations that he had been stabbed by a fellow doctor. The incident became even more mysterious after it was revealed that the hospital authorities did not report the matter to the police, with the local police station reacting only after the media began making inquiries....
09:46 AM, Sep 19, 2012
Bhubaneswar: In a shocking incident, a doctor at Bhubaneswar's Apollo hospital stabbed his colleague, seriously injuring him. Reports say that Dr Pramod Patra stabbed Dr Nayan Ranjan Nanda with a knife. The reasons for the brutal assault are unknown. The police is investigating the case. The accused doctor has not been arrested yet. Sources say that the incident happened on Tuesday morning but the hospital authorities delayed in informing the...
02:02 PM, Sep 18, 2012
