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Investigators believe the explosion occurred while explosive materials were being handled on the rooftop. Gunpowder was recovered from the site, strengthening suspicions that crude bombs were being assembled there. A CCTV footage of the powerful explosion that rocked the Sundarpada Read More …
A bomb blast near Bhubaneswar’s KV-3 triggered a major probe as police and the NIA detained five suspects, recovered explosive materials, and heightened security amid rising concerns over local safety and inadequate patrolling. The Commissionerate Police-Bhubaneswar on Sunday detained five Read More …
In a major breakthrough, Kandhamal police on Sunday unearthed a sensational case involving the seizure of a huge cache of explosives from a model cattle shed in Jagannathpur village under Chamakhandi police limits in Ganjam district. Addressing a press conference Read More …
After a hiatus of nearly five years, operatives of the banned CPI (Maoist) outfit appear to have made a return to the Odisha-Jharkhand border, triggering a series of blasts from Saturday night to Sunday evening. Police said the eastern regional Read More …
A railway trackman was killed and another injured after an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) planted by Maoist operatives went off on the railway tracks under the K Balang police limits of Rourkela Police District (RPD) on Sunday forenoon. The deceased Read More …
A Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) officer was killed in an improvised explosive device (IED) blast during an anti-Maoist operation in Odisha’s Sundargarh district on Saturday morning, officials said. Assistant Sub Inspector (ASI) Satyaban Kumar Singh, 34, of the 134th Read More …
At least seven people sustained critical injuries after unidentified miscreants hurled bombs at a group of villagers in Kampada under Tihidi police limits in Bhadrak district, late Wednesday night. According to sources, two unidentified assailants arrived on a motorcycle and Read More …
A day after a tribal youth was found killed by Maoists in Kandhamal’s Badipanga village, SOG and CRPF jawans recovered a pressure bomb reportedly planted by the ultras in nearby Kotagarh forest on Tuesday. While the security personnel were combing Read More …
Security personnel recovered three powerful Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) during anti-naxal operations in Jharkhand’s West Singhbhum district on Wednesday, police said. The security forces, which included CRPF, Cobra, Jharkhand Jaguar, and district armed police, have been conducting combing operations in Read More …
Odisha government has curbed Maoist insurgency to a great extent with incidents of Naxal-related violence in 2023 reporting a significant decline than the previous four years. As per data shared by state police headquarters on Saturday, 14 incidents of Naxal Read More …
Three jawans of the elite Special Operation Group (SOG) on Friday suffered injuries in an IED blast planted by suspected Maoists at Batepanga forest on the border of Odisha’s Boudh and Kandhamal districts, a police officer said. The incident took Read More …
Two jawans of Special Operations Group (SOG) of Odisha Police sustained injuries after an improvised explosive device (IED) reportedly planted by Maoists exploded in Sirla forest under Tumudibandha of Kandhamal district on Sunday. The incident took place at around 10 Read More …
Border Security Force (BSF) personnel on Tuesday recovered bombs dumped in a forest in Odisha’s Malkangiri district during an anti-Maoist operation, thus averting a major explosion. The explosives were randomly placed underground reportedly by Maoists to cause extensive casualty at Read More …
At least six persons were injured, one critically, after a crude bomb was hurled at them in Khajuripokhari village within Bari Ramachandrapur police limits in Jajpur district on Sunday night. Sources said a clash broke out between two groups of Read More …
Miscreants have allegedly hurled crude bombs at a police team during a raid in Berhampur on Wednesday. The incident took place at Srikshetra Vihar locality under Bada Bazaar police limits the city. No policeman has been injured in the incident. Read More …
A journalist of Odisha’s Kalahandi district was on Saturday killed in an IED blast by suspected Maoist ultras targeting security personnel, a police officer said. The Improvised Explosive Device (IED) went off when Rohit Kumar Biswal, a reporter-cum-photographer of a Read More …
Based on specific BSF Intelligence, an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) was recovered and demolished by Bomb Disposal Squad on November 19 near Odisha. According to an official statement, the recovery was made along the roadside near Pujhariput chowk on Ramagiri Read More …
The senior police officials have rushed to the spot to expedite the investigation. Forensic and bomb-disposal squad experts have arrived at the spot to examine the cause of the powerful blast. In a powerful explosion, portions of a building of Read More …
A bomb disposal squad of the local police today defused a crude live bomb through controlled detonation in Basanti Colony here. The squad defused one of the crude live bombs hurled at former councillor Ashesh Mohanty alias Bulu yesterday. As Read More …
Berhampur: The Special Task Force of Odisha Crime Branch busted an illegal explosives godown at Rambha in Ganjam district and arrested one person, recently. A huge cache of explosives, including 196 quintals of Ammonium Nitrate, 3200 gelatine sticks and 10,406 Read More …