Miscellaneous News Updates

Acres of ganja cultivation destroyed by Police in Baliguda of Kandhamal district, Odisha. Baliguda SDPO leads drive by in which ganja cultivation worth crores destroyed

The Fire services officials have resumed the search operations on Friday morning in order to find the three other students.

The chief secretary directed the SPCB to strictly enforce the pollution control measures in the aluminum smelter plants operating near Hirakud Dam.

Hundreds of tribals from 30 odd villages under Dhuliput and Ralegarh panchayats in the Swabhiman area took out a protest rally on Thursday demanding the administration to allow them cultivate and sale ganja.

Petitioner had claimed that she had been wrongly awarded 99 marks out of total marks of 720 whereas as per her assessment, she is entitled to score at least 702 marks.

Pregnant Women Carried On Cots, Stretchers Exposes Failure.

A cancer stricken Himanshu is united with his sister after 25 years while struggling for life on a bed at the Acharya Harihara Regional Cancer Centre in Cuttack. Now, none but his sister is taking care of him since his parents have long been gone. 

These CCTV visuals are from a medicine store located at Markona market under Simulia Police Station in Balasore. The visuals show a youth allegedly stealing two mobile phones from the shop during broad daylight, after discovering the shopkeeper to be in a deep slumber.

OSSET & CBT qualified teacher aspirants have been demanding employment. These visuals are from the protest site in Bhubaneswar. The agitators polished shoes and reportedly resorted to begging on the roads as a mark of protest. The agitation has been continuing for more than a week now as aspirants refused to budge.

The Sewa Paper Mills, initially owned by Ballarpur Industries Ltd. (BIL), was started in 1984 and was closed multiple times due to a financial crisis. The mill has been taken over by Mother Earth Resources Private Limited.

Strongly condemning the egg attack by certain Opposition party members at the carcade of Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik in Puri yesterday, BJD vice-president and Khandapada MLA Soumya Ranjan Patnaik stated that he does not believe in pelting of eggs to express displeasure and revolt.

On Sunday midnight, Jagatinghpur Police reportedly picked up Panda from his house and took him to the police station for interrogation where he was allegedly beaten up and manhandled by the cops. He was forwarded to the court and shifted to jail the next day.

If you are leaving your phones inside your vehicles while refueling then beware. These are images are from a petrol refueling station in Odisha’s Kandhamal district. A miscreant swiftly steals a phone and flees while the owner was completely unaware of it.

Socio-economic stress factors such as financial pressure, unemployment, food insecurity and tense family relations stood out as having a significant impact not only on experiences of safety (or violence), but also on women's well-being overall.

According to a notification issued by the Revenue and Disaster Management department, orher senior bureaucrats have also been included in the panel as members.