News from Berhampur

BJD Legislator Purna Chandra Swain was booked on Tuesday for organising community feast flouting COVID guidelines in his village

Berhampur's huge potential for growth remains untapped. Compared to the thriving economic activities during good part of the 19th and early part of the 20th centuries that had ramifications even offshore through movement of people and merchandise, there has been a steady slowdown.

Berhampur: As many as 17 women including eight minors were rescued from Berhampur station while being trafficked to Andra Pradesh on Friday night. Acting on a tip-off, the Berhampur sub-collector directed the local tehsildar who swung into action.

The excise sleuths intercepted the vehicle mid-way and inspected it in search of illegal contraband items. However, they failed to find any such materials from the vehicle following which the travellers got into an argument with the raiding officials.

An altercation erupted between the patient's daughter Krishna with Dr Asish after the former alleged poor treatment given at the hospital.

The chariots are made by connecting the food grains using the babul paste, he said. There was no iron nail or other chemical items used in the chariot.

Berhampur (Odisha): A man has been arrested for the death of his newly married wife at Gobindapur village in Odisha's Ganjam district, police sources said today.

Durga Puja is being celebrated with traditional gaiety in this silk town for the 79th year by its Bengali settlers. Durga Puja was organized for the first time in 1932 by some Bengali employees of the Bengal-Nagpur Railway at the railway station area here.

The State government of Odisha on Friday announced to introduce Covaxin for inoculation of people aged 18 years and above in the district of Ganjam. Manufactured by the Bharat Biotech will be soon rolled out for vaccinating people in Ganjam district including the Berhampur Municipal Corporation area from the month of July.

Berhampur: Three brothers were arrested by the police for allegedly killing a 23-year-old man at Badagada in Odisha’s Ganjam district, police said today.

The controversy over absence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s photographs at vaccination centres in Odisha continued for the second consecutive day with BJP supporters protesting at different centres across the State on Tuesday.

A youth was stabbed to death while two of his associates sustained critical injuries following a minor tiff at Uttaramukhi under Bada Bazar police limits here in Ganjam district.

Following the seizure of huge quantity of fake anti-covid drugs in Cuttack, people in various towns including in Berhampur city are panicked in apprehension of circulation of fake drugs in their home town.

The Ministry of Housing Affairs said Berhampur became the first urban local body in the country to give loan benefits to women under the Rehabilitation of Manual Scavengers Scheme, which provides financial benefits to sanitation workers for their rehabilitation in alternative occupations.

A day before the ‘Sabitri Brata’-an auspicious occasion for married women in Odisha- market places having fruits, saree and cosmetic shops across the State witnessed heavy rush on Wednesday despite the lockdown restrictions.