A married man allegedly raped an 8-year-old girl at Soro area in Balasore district on Sunday. The incident comes a day after a similar incident rocked Nilagiri area of the district, police said. The girl was returning home from a community function at Kherana village on Saturday when a 48-year-old man allegedly dragged her to a lonely place and committed […]
» Read moreOdisha’s ruling Biju Janata Dal on Wednesday won the bypoll in Bijepur Assembly seat in Bargarh district with an impressive margin of over 40,000 votes. The party’s Ritarani Sahu bagged a total of 1,02,871 votes, while Ashok Panigrahi of BJP came second with 60,938 votes and Pranaya Sahu of Congress got only 10,272 votes after all the 21 rounds of […]
» Read moreWest Bengal today won its two-year-long ‘rossogolla war’ against Odisha. Both states claimed to have invented the dessert, but it was West Bengal that obtained the ‘Geographical Indications of Goods Registration’ (GI) tag for it. That officially makes the rossogollaa Bengali invention. The GI tag ensures that only registered and authorised users make use of a product name. The ‘rossogolla […]
» Read moreOdisha government has formally named the Outer Wheeler island in Bhadrak district as APJ Abdul Kalam Island as a tribute to the former president on his second death anniversary on Thursday. The revenue and disaster management department on Wednesday had issued a gazette notification after obtaining no objection certificate from the ministry of home affairs, said revenue and disaster management […]
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