It is the largest city of northern Odisha and the administrative headquarters of Balasore district bordering to West Bengal. It is the region which witnessed the first settlement of Britishers as early as 1634, followed by the Dutch and the Danes. Balasore is best known for Chandipur beach, integrated test range (ITR) is an Indian Defence laboratory of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO). Being a famous sea town of Odisha, sea food varieties are high in this district.
To know the plights of these homeless people, OTV visited several parts of Bhubaneswar, Cuttack, and Balasore cities to get first-hand information.
With Rs 10 IPOs having vanished from post offices in Balasore, people suspect that the short supply of Rs 10 IPOs is nothing but an act of mischief by the government to prevent the RTI activists and people from accessing official information about scams and loopholes in schemes.
It is alleged that the cook took leave today after cooking food and preparing watered rice and other items. The students were forced to consume watered rice. One of the teachers admitted that students, who are supposed to get fresh-cooked meal, had to be given watered rice.
Navigating with the help of Google Maps to visit a place? Sometimes, it may lead you to an undesirable destination. This has allegedly happened with a youth from France who is currently on a visit to Odisha.
The rooster has been named ‘Tiger’ by its breeder Ganapati Biswal for which buyers are reportedly offering as much as Rs 30,000. More interestingly, Biswal named it after the famous movie Tiger starred by Salman Khan.
Police got a tip-off that a youth of Jhadeswarpur was smuggling the banned substance from West Bengal to Jaleswar. Police raided and seized 300 gms of brown sugar, two cell phones, a bike, and cash worth Rs 6,000 from the youth.
As per the complaint, Ruma Mariam from Amtoli area in Bangladesh had married Birendra Pratap Bhanja from Buddhakusumi village under Balasore’s Kamarda police limits following a love affair over Facebook.
The family members of Kalyani, a mother of two kids, alleged that her husband used to torture her physically and mentally. They filed a complaint in this regard at the Town police station.
Murmu was reportedly sleeping when the miscreants sprayed bullets on her. Following the incident, Murmu was first rushed to Balasore hospital and later shifted to the Cuttack SCB Medical College and Hospital. The exact reason behind the firing is unclear.
Several government-run schools in the state are grappling with a shortage of teachers, affecting the education of students.
Mariam said she has been looking for her husband for the last six years. According to Mariam, Barendra Bhanja from Buddhakusumi village had married her six years ago as per Muslim rituals.
A quarrel broke out between two brothers as one of the siblings accused the other of killing their mother.
A look at the Manakunda village under Bhograi block and one will see big holes on a vast patch of land. It appears like several ponds have been dug up in the area, thanks to the rampant illegal sand smuggling. The village, which borders West Bengal, is now reportedly in the grip of Bengali brokers.
Every year, thousands of beggars from various parts of Odisha, neighbouring West Bengal, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh throng the river banks, seeking donations and alms from devotees.
The loot of the SBI ATM was captured in a CCTV camera installed at the counter. On the basis of the footage, the police have started an investigation into the matter.
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