Crime

Balangir: Four days after the recovery of a beheaded body of a minor boy near Undei river bank on the outskirts of Sundhimunda village, Balangir police on Saturday arrested two persons. They were identified as Kunja Rana, the uncle, and Shobhaban...

Puri/Konark: Police on Thursday detained two persons in connection with the alleged gang-rape of a 25-year-old woman, who was rescued from a room near Konark Market Complex in Puri district the previous day. Additional SP Gagarin Mohanty said they are being...

Balangir: Police on Tuesday exhumed the headless body of a nine-year-old boy near a nullah at Sundhimunda village in Sindhekela area of Odisha’s Balangir district. The deceased has been identified as Ghanashyam Rana. According to sources, the boy had been missing...

Bhawanipatna: The police have cracked the mysterious Suryakanti Meher murder case at Pragati Nagar in Matigaon village under Junagarh police limits in Kalahandi district on Monday. Shockingly, her sister-in-law Chandrakanti had hired a supari killer to kill Suryakanti over...

Bhubaneswar: A 32-year-old man was caught impersonating a former bureaucrat on Facebook and later arrested for allegedly using the platform to cheat youth for jobs and also women for marriage. He was identified as Rajat Kumar Panda of Tihidi in Bhadrak district. This...

  Bhadrak: Tension ran high in Saidabad village under rural police limits in Bhadrak district on Saturday after locals set a house and two auto-rickshaws on fire following the murder of a youth. The deceased has been identified as Sakim Khan,...

Bhubaneswar: Vigilance sleuths have arrested a regional officer of the Odisha State Pollution Control Board (OSPCB) on charges of possessing unaccounted money. On receiving information that the accused, Hadibandhu Panigrahi had collected unaccounted money worth Rs 96, 000, a vigilance...

Khurda: The police on Friday busted a gang of dacoits by arresting seven of its members at OCC Chhak on National Highway-16 in Khurda district. Acting on a tip-off that a group of dacoits were planning to commit a robbery...

Phulbani: Unidentified miscreants looted cash worth lakhs of rupees from an ATM of State Bank of India (SBI) at Phulbani Bazaar late on Thursday. According to available information, the miscreants dug a three-foot wide hole in the wall of the...

Bhadrak: A minor girl was allegedly murdered by her father and step-mother at Bhaunriabanki village under Tihidi police limits in Bhadrak district late on Wednesday. The deceased has been identified as Parbati Barik, 17. According to sources, Babaji Barik and his second...