Odisha FC players during a training session in Goa on Firday Securing survival with a win over Sporting Club Delhi in their last game, Odisha FC will look to improve their standings when they face Punjab FC in their penultimate Indian Super League (ISL) match at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Goa on Saturday.Hovering above…
Bhubaneswar: Chief minister Mohan Charan Majhi on Thursday directed the state police to intensify crime mapping and strengthen intelligence networks to curb organised crimes. He also asked the police force to instil fear among criminals amid concerns from different quarters about their growing audacity and disregard for law enforcement.Majhi reviewed the state’s law and order…
An apartment in Bhubaneswar Bhubaneswar: To streamline apartment registrations, the state govt on Thursday notified amendments to the Indian Stamp Act, 1899, through an ordinance, reducing the financial burden on apartment owners’ associations and removing procedural bottlenecks.The notification, published in the Odisha Gazette, follows state cabinet approval in Jan earlier this year and is likely…
Bhubaneswar: The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Thursday announced the schedule of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) Phase-III of electoral rolls in Odisha, aiming to ensure a clean, updated and error-free voter database ahead of upcoming electoral exercises. The drive will involve active participation from electors, political parties and election officials.Odisha has 3.34 crore…
Officials during raids on illegal sand miners in Nayagarh Bhubaneswar: Nayagarh district administration launched a massive crackdown on illegal sand mining late Wednesday night, detaining 14 men.The operation came in the wake of escalating violence linked to unlawful sand and stone extraction in the district. In one shocking incident on Monday, members of the mining…
Police parade the accused in front of media in Nayagarh Bhubaneswar: In a major embarrassment for Nayagarh district police, just a day after announcing the arrest of four men in a murder case and parading them before the media, officers were forced to release one of them on Thursday, conceding he was innocent.On Wednesday, IGP…
Cuttack: Orissa high court denied bail to a man accused of impersonating an advocate and appearing before the court using another person’s enrolment number. The court observed that the act amounted to fraud on the judiciary and “a crime against society”.Rejecting the bail application on May 12, Justice Gourishankar Satapathy said the allegations against the…
The tusker crosses the track as the train halts at a distance Keonjhar: Two alert locomotive drivers of a goods train could avoid hitting a large tusker on Thursday morning, earning praise and possibly, a reward.Around 8.21 am on Thursday, a tusker was crossing the Sitabinjh-Basantapur railway line under the Keonjhar forest division, when a…
Bhubaneswar: The state crime branch on Thursday arrested the prime accused in the brutal mob lynching of railway constable Soumya Ranjan Swain in Balianta on May 7, a case that has triggered widespread outrage.The accused identified as Ranjit Patra, 24, of Gangeswargada under Cuttack Sadar police limits, was captured from an undisclosed location in Bhubaneswar…
Berhampur: Police seized eight country-made guns from Birimal forest under Kandhamal district’s Tumudibandha police station limits on Wednesday.Acting on a tip-off, police conducted massive raids on Birimal forest. During the search, they found eight country-made guns dumped in the forest and seized those, said Subham Bhosale, sub-divisional police officer (SDPO), Baliguda.He suspected the miscreants might…
