Berhampur: A fast track court in Phulbani on Tuesday sentenced a 36-year- old man to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment for raping a 13-year-old girl about six months ago inside a forest in Kandhamal district.Kailash Chandra Swain, the additional district judge-cum-judge of the fast track special court (FTSC) also imposed Rs 20,000 fine on the…
Kendrapada: A 23-year-old woman, who went missing from her village in Jagatsinghpur district on Monday evening, a day after her engagement, was found dead in a field on Tuesday evening, police said.The woman had left home to visit a friend in the village but did not return at night. After a search yielded no results,…
BHUBANESWAR: A DSP-rank officer in Nayagarh district has been booked on charges of alleged sexual harassment of a woman complainant, prompting the SP to remove him from the post of sub-divisional police officer of Khandapada on Tuesday.The action follows a complaint lodged on April 13 by the 31-year-old woman from Nayagarh district. In her complaint,…
Rourkela: A 25-year-old man was arrested by Lahunipada police in Bonai sub-division of Sundargarh district on Tuesday for allegedly beating his father to death with a wooden plank. The arrested man has been identified as Kishore Munda. The incident was preceded by a quarrel with his father Rama Munda (55) at their house at Barsuan…
Koraput: The Jeypore forest division has recorded 231 forest fire incidents at different locations between Jan 1 and April 21 this year. According to official records, 183 of these incidents were reported within forest areas, while 48 occurred outside forest boundaries. Despite the spike, officials maintained that all reported fires were brought under control.In response…
Cuttack: Orissa high court has quashed a three-year-old vigilance case against senior IAS officer Bijay Ketan Upadhyaya, ruling that the prosecution was undermined by a flawed sanction process under anti-corruption law.Upadhyaya, a 2009 Odisha-cadre IAS officer is presently secretary in the Odia language literature and culture department.Delivering the judgment on April 17, the single-judge bench…
Bhubaneswar: JSW Steel will sign a joint venture agreement with Tokyo-headquartered JFE Steel Corporation on April 24 for a Rs 30,000-crore investment to add 6 million tonne per annum (MTPA) capacity at JSW-acquired Bhushan Power and Steel Ltd (BSPL) in Sambalpur, govt officials said on Tuesday.The development comes a day after JSW Steel and South…
Kendrapada: From beatings to kneel downs and standing on one leg, punishment in school used to be varied. But a headmaster of a govt school in Jajpur district has gone many steps ahead by putting stinging nettle inside the trousers of 10 students. Their alleged crime — creating disturbance in class.The incident, which took place…
Bhubaneswar: Adding another chapter to India’s tiger dispersal story, a male Royal Bengal Tiger has entered Odisha’s Similipal Tiger Reserve after supposedly covering nearly 1,500km.Though wildlife experts are yet to find out the habitat from where it may have dispersed, initial assessments suggest it may have come from the central India landscape, possibly the Vidarbha…
Bhubaneswar: Puri district police have launched a manhunt to arrest a man accused of raping a six-year-old girl on Sunday. The suspect, identified as the minor’s neighbour, is currently absconding. “We registered the case on Monday after receiving information from the hospital. The accused has been identified and will be arrested soon,” a senior police…
