News from Odisha

Bhubaneswar: Tata Power on Thursday took over the management and operations of NESCO (North Eastern Electricity Supply Company of Odisha) upon completion of the sale process. The countrys largest integrated power utility said, NESCO now will operate under the company name TP Northern Odisha Distribution Limited (TPNODL). As per the order issued by the Odisha […]

Bhubaneswar: At least two persons were injured after unidentified miscreants hurled bomb in Azad Nagar area of Sunderpada under Air Field Police jurisdiction in the capital city on Thursday. As per reports, apart from hurling bomb in the area, the miscreants also attacked a youth with sharp weapon leaving him critically injured. Though the exact […]

Cuttack/Sambalpur: Mangalabagh police on Thursday busted a prostitution racket operating from a house in Ranihat area of Cuttack and arrested three persons. Acting on a tip-off, Manglabagh police and a special squad raided the house located in Gopalsahi of Ranihat area. The owner of the house, Sukant Nayak alias Mitua, who is said to be […]

Bhubaneswar: An 11-year-old boy narrowly escaped an abduction attempt by some miscreants in the Capital City on March 30 last month. The matter came to the fore after the parents of the minor boy submitted CCTV footage of the kidnapping incident at the Infocity Police Station on Thursday. As per reports, the boy, a resident […]

Paradip: In a rare feat, Paradip port handled a record volume of 114.5 million metric tonnes of cargo during last financial year. It is the highest among all the major ports in the country during the period, a top official said. India’s second-biggest state-owned port achieved the feat overcoming the hurdles caused by outbreak of […]

Nayagarh: The Special Task Force (STF) of Crime Branch on Tuesday seized a leopard skin and held two persons in this connection following a raid in Nayagarh area on Friday. Acting on a tip-off, the STF conducted the raid and arrested the accused along with his associate while they were allegedly making a deal to […]

Cuttack: An Odisha court on Thursday granted bail to suspended IFS officer Abhay Kant Pathak’s son Akash in connection with a fraud case registered at Golanthara police station in Ganjam district. As per reports, the interim judgment was handed over by the ADJ-2 in exchange of a security bond of Rs 50,000 and two guarantors. […]

Bhubaneswar/Rourkela: If COVID-19 lockdowns and shutdowns hit them hard a few months ago, lack of cold storage is now adding salt to their injuries. A case in point is the distress sale of vegetables, especially tomatoes, in Rourkela where farmers were seen distributing their produce at free of cost to people while being in tears. […]

Cuttack: As many as 13 more persons of a private college in Cuttack Municipal Corporation (CMC) area have tested positive for Covid-19 on Thursday. Earlier on Wednesday, 12 students of the same college had tested positive. Following the incident, contact tracing of the infected students was carried out as per the protocols issued by the […]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Assembly Speaker S N Patro on Thursday said that he is hopeful on the return of normalcy in the House after the agitating BJP MLAs met Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, following which the co-operation minister was asked to give a statement on paddy procurement. Patro, who presided over an all-party meeting in the […]

Balasore: Two youths were thrashed by villagers on suspicion of being child lifters at Rasalpur village under Kamardha Police limits of Balasore district late on Thursday night. As per reports, four youths been identified as residents of Deula area under Bhogarai block came in a car to the village and tried to barge into a […]

Ganjam: A lady sarpanch from the district was disqualified from the post on Thursday for not knowing Odia and submitting a fake cast certificate while filing her nomination form. According to the 1994 Odisha Gram Panchayat Act, a person is ineligible of holding any position in a gram panchayat if he or she does not […]

Nayagarh: Three persons were killed and two other sustained critical injuries after two motorcycles collided with each other near the Sub-Divisional Police Officer (SDPO) office in Sarankula area of Nayagarh district late on Thursday night. The three deceased have been identified as Krushna Chandra Nayak and Muna Nayak of Jagannathpur area while Shyam Sundar Sethi […]

Bhubaneswar: In a shocking incident, two labourers died while carrying out sewerage cleaning works at Tankapani Road area in the Capital City on Friday. Preliminary reports said that both the deceased were sanitary workers who died due to suffocation after inhaling poisonous gases. As per reports, the labourers who were engaged in manual scavenging fell […]

Bhubaneswar: The fears of a Covid-19 resurgence started haunting Odisha on Friday when the daily positive tally in the State crossed the 100 mark after a hiatus of over a month. As many as 110 fresh cases have been detected in the State in the last 24 hours. With the inclusion of the new cases, […]