Dilip Kumar Das

Three engineers from the irrigation department were charred to death when the car they were travelling in caught fire after it was hit by two trucks in Khurda district on Saturday.

Assam on Sunday mourned the death of two of its sons — inspector dilip kumar das and constable Bablu Rabha — in the attack by Maoists in Chhattisgarh.

Ten bicycles were allegedly stolen from the Raahgiri event venue at Master Canteen Square here on Sunday.The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has lodged a complaint with Kharavela Nagar police station.

A cherished dream of the chess fraternity in the state finally came true on Friday as Debashis Das became the first-ever Grandmaster from the state.

Tea gardens in upper Assam have been hit by disruption of natural gas by Oil India Limited (OIL) due to continuous blockades and agitations at their wells by locals following the May 27 Baghjan blowout.

The forest department officials on Sunday observed the Forest Martyrs' Day by paying floral tributes and gun salute to the martyrs at a programme held at the Aranya Bhavan on Sunday.

Husband of a sarpanch was shot at and injured by armed miscreants inside a roadside hotel near Khurda late on Sunday.

Six years after 11 tribal families were evicted from their homes by the forest department for allegedly constructing them on encroached land, the families got back their houses again.

The last rites of CRPF inspector dilip kumar das from Assam, who was among those martyred in a Maoist ambush in Chhattisgarh on Saturday, were performed on Tuesday with full state honours, as condolences continued to pour in. Das was one of the two CRPF personnel from the state killed in the ambush.

For the first time in the northeast an innovative project was launched to make new mothers more aware of health and hygiene through SMS alerts by the health department on Tuesday.

India Post-West Bengal circle will host the exhibition, which will showcase the stamps in three categories -- invitee class, competitive class and non-competitive class on the eve of Durga Puja, chief postmaster general, West Bengal circle, Arundhaty Ghosh said here on Wednesday.

In a dramatic standoff, coal transport at NTPC's Chatti Bariatu Keredari project was halted for several hours when ex-minister Yogendra Saw constructed a makeshift wall. Saw argued that a woman was owed land compensation, while officials clarified that the agreement was with a different person and payment had already been issued.

A woman and her four-year-old son were found hanging from a tree on the outskirts of Nirakarpur in Khurda district on Saturday.

Tension prevailed at Malipada village in Khurda on Wednesday as irate villagers demolished a boundary wall on a government land, which was sold to a Delhi-based charitable organization in 2002.

A day after the assembly elections in Assam came to an end, chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal on Wednesday exuded confidence that the BJP-led alliance will return to power in the state with an enhanced mandate. He said the three-phase polling was by and large peaceful and it reflected that his government was successful in restoring peace in Assam after decades of insurgency and violence.

A team of Central government officials have alerted the state officials on steps that need to be taken to prevent any outbreak.