A blood-stained trouser bearing a tailor's tag, a money receipt, and an e-wallet transaction record led the Odisha police to solve a chilling murder case in Cuttack district.
The Orissa High Court has directed the State Government to expeditiously grant Rs 50 lakh ex-gratia and family pension to a widow whose husband, a police constable died of Covid-19 during duty when the pandemic was at its peak.
Amid outrage over the alleged rape of a 34-year-old woman from Odisha in Delhi's Sarai Kale Khan Area some four days back, the Odisha police on Monday said it is in touch with its Delhi counterparts seeking early arrest of the perpetrators of the dastardly crime.
The miscreants let loose violence to attack the police vehicle in a bid to snatch away the rescued victim.
Buckling to mounting pressure amid nationwide outrage, the Odisha Government has ordered a judicial probe into the alleged custodial abuse of a serving Army officer and his fiancée in a Bhubaneswar police station on 15 September.
The fraudsters targeted desperate job seekers in at least five states like Gujarat, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal and Odisha.
The three persons managed the government subsidies, meant for farmers, by uploading fake documents and information on the portal. They, further, collected cheques in advance, from the beneficiaries before the subsidy amounts were credited in the bank accounts.
74 cattle being illegally transported to slaughterhouses in West Bengal were rescued during a raid at Juriaghati Chowk in Keonjhar district.
The Indian pangolin is a Schedule-I protected animal under the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972.
The fraudsters opened about 2,000 mule accounts in different parts of the country, mainly in Odisha, West Bengal, Bihar and Assam.
