About 50 people including children and women from Kharsia area in neighbouring Chhattisgarh state had gone to a temple on an islet in the middle of the river.
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) had earlier predicted the rise of mercury in Odisha. The temperature has started to peak again and by 2:30 pm on Sunday, seven cities including Bhubaneswar recorded temperatures more than 37 degrees.
The family of the deceased had a fight with Satya Kisan and his family members for some reason. Bipin’s family alleged that Kisan's family members beat him with lathis, following which he died.
People from most parts of western Odisha and parts of neighbouring Chhattisgarh are expected to benefit from the flight services to Bengaluru and Kolkata.
PM’s flight is likely to have a brief halt at the Veer Surendra Sai Airport in Jharsuguda as a precautionary measure due to the torrential rain and inclement weather in Chhattisgarh.
Under the leadership of Odisha State BJP Secretary Tankadhar Tripathy, the saffron party workers put up posters and showed black flags while staging a dharna at Jharsuguda old bus stand opposing Pandian’s visit to the district.
The OPD (Outpatient Department) ticket on hospital admission of BJD Minister Naba Das immediately after he sustained fatal gunshot wounds in Jharsuguda has no mention of the emergency treatment provided to the slain leader.
While the vacations have been extended for a day more, the timings have also been revised in these two districts.
“The government, after careful consideration is pleased to extend the area of operation of Capital Region Urban Transport (CRUT) to the urban cluster areas covering Sambalpur-Jharsuguda-Brajarajnagar-Belpahar cluster and Berhampur-Gopalpur-Chhatrapur-Hinjilicut-Digapahandi cluster under the operational jurisdiction of CRUT for running Mo Bus services in the district of Sambalpur, Jharsuguda, and Ganjam,” a notification issued by the Housing and Urban Development department read.
Senior Congress leader Suresh Routray said senior leaders of the party stayed away from the campaigning which, he said, was another reason for his party’s debacle in the by-election.
Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik addressed party workers at Sankha Bhawan, BJD’s office in Bhubaneswar, in the wake of the resounding victory of party candidate Dipali Das in Jharsuguda bypoll.
“It had been a dream of my father to build a new Jharsuguda. And I will fulfill my father’s dreams, by following the guidance of the Chief Minister,” said newly-elected Jharsuguda MLA Dipali Das.
While a total of nine candidates are in the fray, it is a triangular contest between the BJP, the BJD, and the Congress. The three parties are hopeful of winning the bypoll.
The strong rooms are under CCTV surveillance and the district administration officials are supervising the security arrangements.
Mahananda was initially posted at OSAP sixth battalion in Cuttack and was suspended a year ago for his unruly behaviour.
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