When the goat’s owner came to the police station to complain about it, he was put in a police vehicle, taken to a nearby place and then brought back to be put in the lock-up.
In a state not known for the role of caste in electoral politics, there is now a competition of sorts among political parties to champion the cause of caste.
According to the prosecution, Sindhu had brutally murdered two young men and a baby, who were his neighbours, on January 1, 2003 in course of his practice of witchcraft.
A local court had taken up the alleged domestic harassment case after the 26-year-old woman staged a protest claiming her husband was not accepting her as his legally wedded wife.
The 26-year-old woman in bridal attire sat picketing outside a doctor’s house for ten days, demanding that she be allowed to live with 'her husband.'
The 58-year-old convicted gangster’s death in police firing while being shifted from one jail to another has prompted human rights activists to question the police action and demand a probe.
Tribal youth Isak Munda from Babupali in Sambalpur district’s Jujumura block's rise to fame as a YouTuber blogger has now made him an inspiration.
The column, published on Thursday, has caused widespread resentment in BJD because it claimed that the state government concealed the real number of people who died of COVID-19.
The horse statue at the centre of a political controversy is a replica of the iconic horse and warrior sculptures seen in the 13th-century Sun Temple of Konark.
The accused was in love with a woman who was staying in the house months ago and wanted her wedding, scheduled in the next few days, to be cancelled.
The Odisha government has been shifting gangster Sheikh Hyder from jail to jail over the years with the aim of cutting down his crime networks and preventing gang skirmishes inside the jails.
The burglaries have prompted Puri’s titular king to urge the Odisha government to provide more security at the shrines
As news about her roadside food stall along with her Bollywood background made headlines, Suchismita Routray got calls offering help from Amitabh Bachchan and ‘Chehre’ producer Anand Pandit. But she politely declined all those offers.
By using a “bit of nanotechnology,” said Dr Sahoo, he has succeeded in making a curcumin emulsion with a lipid and blended it in a sponge-like frame of alginate and chitosan, two biocompatible and biodegradable polymers long used gainfully in drug delivery.
Govinda candidly that he had been living amid “many hardships and pains” for the past 14 to 15 years and that the hardest time for him came after he entered politics.