Dhenkanal: A woman was trampled to death by a wild elephant on Friday in a forest near Kaunriapal village under Sadar Range in Dhenkanal district. The deceased was identified as Urmila Nayak. She was attacked when she had gone to attend nature’s call. According to sources, the elephant barged into the village and attacked Urmila […]
Berhampur: Two undertrial prisoners have sustained ‘critical’ injuries in an attack by another inmate at Aksa sub-jail in Odisha’s Ganjam district. All three of them shared the same ward at the sub-jail. Jailor Siba Shankar Tripathy said, S Balaram Reddy, an accused in a murder case, hit Rabi Das and Sunil Reddy with a cement brick […]
By Anil Dhir: The rebels had approached the town from two directions. They came by trucks, jeeps and motorbikes. Some of them had even come earlier in the day by the regular buses, disguised as baratis of a marriage party. Before the struck, they had disconnected all communication lines, disrupted power supply and blocked all […]