Bhubaneswar: A crocodile was spotted roaming near a railway track close to Patakhaman village in Redhakhol block of Odisha’s Sambalpur district on Monday evening, triggering panic among local residents, a villager said.According to local resident Raju Pradhan, the crocodile was spotted between 8 pm and 9 pm when he was returning from his agricultural field.“I…
Puri: Puri Cyber Police have arrested a 44-year-old man for allegedly impersonating an IAS officer and committing cyber fraud involving lakhs of rupees. The accused has been identified as Balabhadra Mishra, a resident of Angul district.According to police, the accused contacted a woman through the Bharat Matrimony app and introduced himself as an Additional Secretary…
Rayagada, October 19: In a joint late-night operation conducted on Sunday, October 18, 2026, at around 11:20 PM, the Tikiri and Rayagada forest department personnel intercepted a pick-up van loaded with illegal timber and detained three individuals. The raid was carried out acting on the strict directives of the Divisional Forest Officer (DFO) of Rayagada…
A routine cable-repair job turned fatal this afternoon in the Baliapanda police station area of Puri city when two young men were electrocuted after the TV cable they were fixing came into contact with an 11 kV power line.The deceased have been identified as Bapi Pradhan and Subrat Sahu. One of them hailed from Ramamandir…
Bhubaneswar, Oct 19: The Opposition Biju Janata Dal (BJD) lodged a police complaint alleging that AI-generated deepfake videos and voice-cloned content targeting senior party leader and former bureaucrat Sujata Rout Karthikeyan were circulated through Instagram and Facebook.The party condemned the alleged circulation of fabricated videos, describing them as defamatory and intended to damage the leader’s…
Bhubaneswar: A suspected love triangle involving social media is believed to have led to the murder of a 15-year-old boy in Kataka, with police detaining a juvenile suspect while another accused remains absconding, officials said on Monday.The victim, Sumant Sahu, a Class X student and resident of Raja Bagicha Badhei Sahi, was found dead near…
Bhubaneswar: In a tragic incident, two persons including a patient were killed and three others sustained critical injuries after the ambulance they were travelling in met with an accident in Bhadrak district.The ambulance was shifting a critical woman patient from Kharagpur to SCB Medical College and Hospital, Cuttack when it hit the roadside divider on…
Bhubaneswar: Biju Janata Dal president and Leader of Opposition Naveen Patnaik Saturday claimed that the party’s student wing, Biju Chhatra Janata Dal (BCJD), won in more than 60 per cent of colleges and 50 per cent of universities in the recently concluded students’ union elections in Odisha.Several student leaders who won the elections visited Naveen…
Kataka: The gruesome murder of the 15-year-old boy, who was found dead with several stab injuries on the Mahanadi riverbank near Bali Yatra ground in Kataka yesterday, is a fallout of love triangle, informed Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Khilari Rishikesh Dnyandeo.According to the DCP, the victim Sumanta Sahu of the Raja Bagicha area and…
A month after the dramatic rescue of five baby orangutans from the Bichitrapur mangrove forest in Balasore district, the Special Task Force (STF) of the Odisha Crime Branch appears to have hit a wall.Despite initial momentum, the investigation spanning Odisha and West Bengal has ground to a halt, raising concerns that the state is fast…
