A 22-year-old woman was on Monday kidnapped and molested in a running car and thrown out of the vehicle by two engineering students here, police said.

"The girl was recovered from the road by the pol

With little hope of her complete recovery, doctors of SCB Medical College, Cuttack, on Saturday started providing music therapy to a Pipili gangrape victim.
Doctors hope the 19-year-old girl, who is an avid music lover and emerging singer, will respond to the therapy and recover.

With little hope of her complete recovery, doctors of SCB Medical College, Cuttack, on Saturday started providing music therapy to a Pipili gangrape victim.

Doctors hope the 19-year-old girl, who is

Indian sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik said on Sunday he will craft a sculpture in Japan's Sapporo city next month on the impact of climate change.

He said he has been invited to participate in the 39t

Over 60 thatched houses, mostly belonging to sex workers, were on Thursday gutted in a major fire at Malisahi area here, police said.

There was, however, no loss of life, though property worth about

Under mounting pressure from the Opposition parties, women organisations, student forums and intellectual groups, Orissa agriculture minister and senior BJD leader Pradeep Maharathy stepped down from his post.

Claiming that as many as 4,100 rape cases were registered in the state during the last three years, the women wing of the Odisha state Congress on Wednesday demanded a CBI probe into the Dalit teenage

Under attack for allegedly shielding accused persons in Pipili gangrape case, Odisha's Agriculture Minister Pradip Maharathy on Thursday resigned on 'moral ground' and in the 'interest' of ruling BJD

Under attack for allegedly shielding accused persons in Pipili gangrape case, Odisha's Agriculture Minister Pradip Maharathy on Thursday resigned on 'moral ground' and in the 'interest' of ruling BJD

After completion of the process in Khurda district, culling of poultry birds started on Wednesday in the tribal-dominated Mayurbhanj, the second district in Odisha where bird flu has been detected.