Crime

Properties worth around Rs 30 lakh were gutted as fire broke out in a lime godown at RM Market Complex in Odisha’s Bhadrak district on Sunday morning.

The Commissionerate Police has filed a charge sheet against comedian and former BJD leader Tatwa Prakash Satapathy alias Papu Pom Pom for his alleged involvement in casting couch case.

CBI on Thursday filed a supplementary chargesheet in a special court here against two Trinamool Congress MPs Sudip Bandyopadhyay and Tapas Pal and Rose Valley group chairman Gautam Kundu in connection with the chit fund scam.

Two school children were killed and two others sustained critical injuries when a truck overturned and fell on them on NH-55 near Rairakhol in Odisha’s Sambalpur district on Monday.

The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Wednesday issued notice to the Centre and the state government over the forest land encroachment by KIIT and KIMS in Bhubaneswar.

BJP’s Rourkela MLA and former Coal Minister Dilip Ray has landed in trouble, as he will be facing a trial for his alleged involvement in coal block allocation case.

The Singhadwara police on Tuesday detained a servitor of Sri Jagannath Temple ahead of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s visit to the temple.

Orissa High Court on Wednesday rejected the bail plea of TMC MP Tapas Pal, who has been arrested in Rose Valley chit fund scam.

A sex racket was on Monday busted in Cuttack by Commissionerate Police. The sex racket was operating from a hotel at College square in Cuttack.

The Crime Branch (CB) of Odisha Police on Sunday began to probe into the alleged objectionable remarks on Hindu deities on social media that led to riot-like situation in Bhadrak town.