The National Human Rights Commission has taken suo motu cognisance of a media report about a woman committing suicide alleging sexual harassment by a man in the Raidurgam area of Hyderabad in Telangana on November 27.
The film is based on the tragic events of February 2002, when a train carrying karsevaks was set on fire in Godhra, killing 90 devotees and triggering one of the worst communal riots in Gujarat.
Odisha Crime Investigation Department (CID) has busted an inter-state gang involved in digital arrest cyber fraud by arresting the scammer who defrauded a 66-year-old retired doctor of a government-run medical college and hospital after placing him under ‘digital arrest’, a senior CID official said on Thursday.
Odisha witnessed large scale inter-state movement of elephants in the current winter season with jumbos from Jharkhand and West Bengal migrating to the state, according to the All Odisha Elephant Census-2024 census report released on Thursday.
As these ‘ghost’ beneficiaries figured in the list of fair price shops, the quota of ration allocated against them is gobbled up while genuine contenders to the quota keep waiting for their turn for inclusion in the NFSA.
Senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Monday said the coastal state has suffered gross neglect at the hands of the Modi Sarkar with steady decline of central funding.
Candidates in the fray for the simultaneous twin polls in coastal patches of Odisha’s Kendrapara district are contending with altogether a different humanitarian issue as they are on campaign trail to seek votes.
ADR analyzed the criminal, financial and other background details of 37 candidates contesting the polls from four seats on 13 May.
Dubbing the government at Centre and Odisha as billionaire-friendly, senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik alleging that both have entered into partnership to run the State.
Caste calculation, religious affiliation has never emerged as a tool to woo voters.
