Kendujhar

Kendujhar: A POCSO court in the district has sentenced a coaching centre owner to rigorous imprisonment for sexually assaulting a seven-year-old girl student. The court of Additional District Judge-cum-Special Judge (POCSO), Monali…
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Kendujhar: The body of a driver, who went missing after his car was swept away by strong floodwaters through a major breach on Anandapur Ring Road in Kendujhar district, was recovered on Thursday after an intensive 30-hour search…
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Kendujhar: A routine operation to drain floodwater turned tragic in Kendujhar on Wednesday when a young firefighter died after accidentally touching a live wire while on duty. The deceased has been identified as Chandan Patnaik, who had…
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Bhubaneswar: The depression-induced heavy rainfall has severely affected normal life in Kendujhar and Mayurbhanj districts, inundating roads, damaging agricultural land, and raising concerns over a possible flood situation as river water…
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Kendujhar: Three members of a family were killed, and one person sustained critical injuries after an SUV lost control and rammed into a roadside mango tree near Rajia in Champua area of Kendujhar district late on Wednesday night. …
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Kendujhar: A 45‑year‑old home guard deployed for Rath Yatra duty in Puri died under mysterious circumstances late Saturday night, with initial suspicion pointing to a possible snakebite. The deceased has been identified as Pradeep Kumar…
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Bhubaneswar: A pall of grief descended over several villages in Odisha’s Kendujhar district on Wednesday as the last rites of five victims of the devastating gas leak incident in Tamil Nadu were performed amid heart-wrenching scenes. …
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Kendujhar: A criminal, wanted in dozens of cases, was injured during a fierce encounter with Kendujhar Sadar Police in the early hours of Tuesday. The accused, identified as Prabhat Mallik, was on the wanted list of police. He was…
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Bhubaneswar: As many as five people lost their lives in two separate road accidents on NH-49 in Kendujhar district on Sunday, leaving families shattered and commuters stranded for nearly three hours. The first accident occurred around 1…
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Keonjhar: The district police exhumed the skeletal remains of a 21-year-old woman from Siddhamatha Reserve Forest on Sunday, nearly a month after she was allegedly murdered by her boyfriend in a suspected crime of passion. The victim…
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