News from Balasore

As per the data presented at the Winter Session of the Odisha Assembly recently, the State seems to have slipped further deep into the clutches of the ‘White Poison': Brown Sugar.

Pushpabati Parida, a resident of Shaymsundarpur village in Balasore district. Pushpabati, who runs a grocery shop in the village to keep the wolf from the door, has a bitter story to narrate.

Meanwhile, a Vigilance team has brought Das to his Bargarh, Britt Colony residence in the Capital City where his one more property is likely to be searched today.

The members of BJP and BJD faced off on Thursday during the foundation laying ceremony of new railway station building at Balasore ahead of CM Naveen’s visit to the town tomorrow.

A three-member team of the Animal Husbandry department visited the village to ascertain the cause behind the death of so many broiler chickens.

Cases of loot from temples is not new in Odisha. Several instances of loot from temples have been reported across the State in the last couple of years.

“The prediction worried me and I requested them to suggest some remedial measures to get rid of the misfortune. I told them that I would do the ‘upchar’ after going back to Kolkata,” stated Dey.

“The loud music killed 63 chickens in my farm; they died of heart attack caused by panic,” alleged the farm owner Ranjit Parida.

As per reports, tomatoes are being sold at Rs 80 per kg, bitter gourd costs Rs 60 per kilo, beans and pointed gourd cost Rs 100 per kilo. Similarly, ridge gourd, brinjal and cowpea beans have touched Rs 80 per kilogram in the retail markets.

"These villagers are still far away from minimum basic facilities. There is no proper road for commutation and I have taken up this issue with the Block Development Officer (BDO)."

For over a thousand beggars queued up for almost a kilometre, there are thrice the number of donors as well. From rice to clothes, from food to cash, there are so many donors that no beggar ever goes empty-handed from this mela.

More than 700 employees of the erstwhile power distribution company, NESCO which has now been acquired by the TATA Power, continue protest for over a month demanding regularisation of their jobs

When the bus came to a halt, the group pretended to help the driver to divert the bus through some other route by saying that the road was blocked and it would be impossible to commute.

The deceased, Laxmi Narayan Jena who, as per reports, had taken loan to grow paddy on two acres of land, ended life by consuming poison after he allegedly failed to repay the debt

Sadhuapada village in Soro block of Balasore district on Sunday witnessed a reunion of a missing man with his family which seemed like a spectacle straight out from a movie script.