Prabin Kumar

Tragedy struck in Nayagarh district as a bus carrying over 50 passengers, mostly women, overturned early Saturday, claiming five lives and injuring around 30. The vehicle, en route to Harishankar, reportedly lost control at high speed, hitting an electric pole before overturning. Authorities are investigating the cause, with officials offering condolences and ex-gratia to the victims' families.

The Araria district police have identified Bauwa Rai, resident of village Srinagar of Madhepura district, as the man who allegedly shot Bhargama police station SHO prabin kumar on Tuesday evening.

A high-level probe would be conducted into the death of a truck driver from Cachar district in a jail in Mizoram on Wednesday, minister for water resources and information and public relations Pijush Hazarika said on Friday.

The two officials of a construction company in Dima Hasao district, who were abducted by militants on Monday, are still traceless even as security forces are carring out combing operations in area.

The Parman River bridge in Forbesganj block, Araria district, collapsed due to floodwaters. Enayat Khan noted the bridge's closure since 2017 and repairs in 2020-21 by prabin kumar. Built in 2008-09, its collapse resulted in the suspension of 15 engineers for negligence. Additionally, Chaitanya Prasad cited ineffective monitoring. Higher officials were informed, and a checklist was sent.

Jogen Gogoi of the Tarani Kalyanpur area died on the spot when the securitymen deployed at the ONGC plant fired from their .303 service rifles following a tiff among them themselves On Thursday night.

A close aide of the slain VHP leader Laxmanananda Saraswati was on Sunday arrested in Kandhamal, the police said.

The special judge, CBI cases, Guwahati, convicted Suraj Kamal Dutta and prabin kumar Hazarika, former senior finance and account officers of the ONGC, ERBC, Sibsagar (Assam), and sentenced them to undergo one year rigorous imprisonment and pay a fine of Rs 20,000 each for cheating the organisation to the tune of nearly Rs 1.38 crore.

A 27-year-old jobless civil engineer killed himself at Alipur in West Bengal’s Memari on Friday night.

The annual cultural fest of Utkal University, Wave-2012, proved to be a star-studded affair on Thursday with Ollywood stars sizzling on the stage.

Excise officials in Berhampur arrested a 35-year-old man from Jharkhand for illegally transporting 160kg of ganja, valued at approximately Rs 22 lakh. The contraband was en route from Gajapati district to Ranchi when seized. This follows a similar seizure of 150kg of ganja near Berhampur on Friday.

Two-day international conference on Information Systems Research and Teaching (ICISRT) - 2014 was inaugurated at Indian Institute of Management, Indore (IIM-I) on Monday.

Tragedy struck Odisha's Gajapati district. A home guard recruitment test turned fatal. Sulant Mishal died during a 2-km run. Seven others were hospitalized. Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi announced compensation. The government ordered a probe. Recruitment tests are suspended. This follows similar deaths in a forest department test in March. Concerns rise about safety protocols during recruitment events.

A 27-year-old jobless civil engineer killed himself in Alipur under Memari police station on Friday night.

Researchers from Lovely Professional University, Punjab, have developed an Internet of things (IoT) device for soap dispensers which they claim can ensure that people wash their hands properly for over 20 seconds. The device called '20Sec4Life' is splash-proof and will glow, beep and play a musical tone for more than 20 seconds.

Thrilled about their upcoming vacation in Singapore, two brothers from Bengaluru yearned to board the cruise ship offering sports and games for which their dad had purchased tickets. But the twins were left in tears at Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) recently when ground staff of Singapore Airlines denied them boarding.

An eight-year-old was charred to death in a fire at Sholobigha slum near Santoshpur’s Jinjira Bazar on Tuesday afternoon.

The Bombay Art Society is holding its 121st All India Annual Art Exhibition 2013 at the Jehangir Art Gallery.

Two engineers lost their lives during a 25 km endurance test for state forester and forest guard jobs in Odisha. The test's timing, which coincided with high temperatures, has prompted an inquiry and led officials to reschedule the test to early morning hours to avoid heat-related issues.

From creating hand sanitisers to IoT devices for social distancing and apps that track infected cases, institutions are countering the pandemic through out-of-the-box thinking

Within 2 weeks, at least 6 cases reported across 5 top city hospitals to cybercrime cell; in 2 of the incidents, kin of invalids looted of Rs 62,000 in total. Cops investigating new blitz of scams