Kendrapara, March 19 A dead snake was allegedly found in the 'prasad' served at a religious gathering in Kendrapara district of Odisha, following which panic gripped the area, officials said on Thursday.The incident occurred in Nuagaon in Ward 10 of Pattamundai Municipality on Wednesday night...
Kendrapara (Odisha), March 19 A court here on Thursday sentenced a man to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment for raping a girl, which resulted in her becoming pregnant.The POCSO court also imposed a fine of Rs 50,000 on the 53-year-old convict, with failure to pay resulting in an additional...
Bhubaneswar, March 8 The Odisha Vigilance arrested a government engineer on Sunday for allegedly amassing assets disproportionate to his known sources of income, officials said.Pramod Kumar Ray, assistant executive engineer (AEE) in the Derabish irrigation sub-division under the Kendrapara...
New Delhi, March 7 The NHRC said on Saturday that its intervention in a case involving six Indian workers who were allegedly "tortured while in captivity" by their employer in Thailand over the past several months has resulted in their rescue.The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) had...
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Bhubaneswar, February 23 The Odisha government has deported 73 of the 77 Bangladeshi infiltrators residing illegally in various districts of the state, Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi informed the Assembly on Monday.In a written reply to a question by BJP MLA Padma Lochan Panda, Majhi said...
Kendrapara (Odisha), February 21 Five teachers from a private school were arrested on Saturday for allegedly raping a 13-year-old girl in Kendrapara district, according to police.The arrests were made after the father of the class 7 student and the district child welfare committee filed...
Kendrapara (Odisha), February 14 A 76-year-old man died and at least nine others were injured when a swarm of bees attacked them in Kendrapara district, Odisha, police said on Saturday.The incident occurred on Friday afternoon at Jaguleipada village, under the Rajkanika Police Station, when...