The Supreme Court has given Odisha one month to decide on Dara Singh's remission plea. Singh is serving a life sentence for the 1999 murder...

The BJD has accused the BJP government of turning Odisha into a disturbed state. Senior leaders highlighted recent murders and violence, cl...

Fifteen years after a shocking murder, the Uttarakhand high court has upheld the life sentence of a US-returned software engineer. Rajesh G...

Mahendra Hembram, convicted in the 1999 Graham Staines murder case, has been released from Keonjhar jail after serving 25 years due to good...

The Supreme Court has directed the Odisha government to decide within six weeks on the remission plea of Dara Singh, serving a life sentenc...

A year after its launch, the National Automated Fingerprint Identification System (NAFIS) holds nearly 9.3 million fingerprint records of a...

A tragic incident involving the rape and murder of a 10-year-old tribal girl in Balasore, Odisha, has led BJD leaders to criticize the BJP ...

While seeking a response from the state government within two weeks, a bench comprising Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justices JB Pardi...

BJP candidate and former union minister Dilip Ray, who declared possessing assets valued at Rs 313.53 crore, has emerged as the richest MLA...

According to the NCRB data available for 2017, the total number of rape cases that went to trial in that year was 1,46,201 but only 5,822 o...

According to the MP government, 29 convicts and under-trials — including the eight killed on Monday — with allegiance to Simi were lodged a...

A committee representing a group of survivors of 2008 Kandhamal communal violence in Odisha today sought President Pranab Mukherjee's inter...

CPI(M) Politburo member Brinda Karat today met the seven persons convicted in the 2008 Laxmanand Saraswati murder case.

Aam Admi Party candidate Narendra Mohanty from Kandhamal Lok Sabha seat has the highest number of 28 criminal cases pending against him.

A Maoist leader was convicted by court in Kandhamal district for murder of senior VHP leader Laxmananda Saraswati & four others 5 yrs ago.

Odisha registered 83,960 criminal cases in 2012 marking 14 per cent more than the total number of crimes which took place the previous year.

Dubbing Odisha as a "sanctuary" of criminals in view of the rise in crimes against women, opposition Congress walked out of the assembly.