Odisha excise minister AU Singh Deo on Thursday tendered his resignation from the state cabinet over "medicine" drink tragedy which so far claimed 32 lives in the state.
At least two policemen were killed in a landmine blast allegedly carried out by Naxals in Sukma district of Chhattisgarh, police said today.
The deaths caused by a spurious drink on Thursday climbed to 32 in Odisha, while state excise minister Ananga Udaya Singh Deo submitted his resignation to chief minister Naveen Patnaik.
Having paid a premium price to travel in air-conditioned comfort, passengers aboard the Hapa-Howrah Express took offence after discovering freeloaders of the furry and scurry variety in the coaches.
West Bengal Governor MK Narayanan has assured the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) delegation that he would be meeting President Pratibha Patil on February 15 in Delhi and will request for early implementation of the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA).
The Odisha State Commission for Women (OSCW) Jyoti Panigrahi finds herself in a corner as her enquiry report on the alleged gang rape of a dalit girl in Puri district has triggered widespread protests from opposition parties and civil society groups on the ground that it is “politically motivated and meant to protect the interest of the BJD government”.
Two people were arrested and drugs worth Rs 8 crore were seized from West Bengal's Murshidabad district on Tuesday following questioning of two people earlier taken into custody from a heroin making unit, police said.
Police in Chhattisgarh's Korba district launched a search Monday for a man who threw out a minor girl from a running train after a failed rape attempt.
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee today praised West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for intervening in the market to ease supply side constraints in tackling inflation.
Three days after the murder of the retired professor couple, whose bodies were found from their house at Ramakrushana Nagar, the police have come to know that they were shot from close range.
Rajendra Mandal has single-handedly brought health care and relief to Odisha’s remote tribal district of Rayagada. Priya Ranjan Sahu reports.
Three months after a laptop snag killed an MNC employee, another man in Kolkata was found dead close to his burnt laptop in his bedroom, police said on Sunday. Asphyxiation is suspected to be the cause of death.
Odisha government on Sunday culled more than 7000 poultry birds in a central government run farm following confirmation of a bird flu case.
Even as the National Commission for Women (NCW) member-secretary Anita Agnihotri is in Odisha to enquire into alleged gang rape of a dalit girl in Pipili in Puri district, the Odisha State Commission for Women (OSCW) chairperson Jyoti Panigrahi has submitted a report coming down heavily on doctors.
A city court today granted interim bail to renowned doctor Mani Chettri, arrested in connection with the fire at AMRI Hospital in Kolkata that claimed 93 lives.