The deceased students along with five other students had gone to the pond to immerse Lord Ganesh’s idol they had installed at their tuition. All were Class X students.
Since the opening day, the film, based on noted writer Sankar Tripathy’s Odia novel ‘Nadabindu’, has been receiving rave reviews from critics as well as common cine-goers.
Apart from Odisha, Prime Minister Narendra Modi flagged off eight more Vande Bharat Express trains, to help improve connectivity across 11 states namely Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Bihar, West Bengal, Kerala, Jharkhand and Gujarat.
The jail authorities could realise the mistake only when the worried family members of Ramesh Jena, who was still languishing behind bars, complained about it.
“We fought the Assembly elections in Maharashtra and Haryana without chief ministerial faces and won. We will repeat the same in Odisha as well,” Pradhan said.
The EOW also said that the victimised employees of Sambad/EML have been examined and they have also corroborated the allegations.
As per the notice, 14 inspectors and one ACP-rank official have been transferred from their present places of posting to different places.
The second Arindam Das Memorial Scholarship was awarded to Amlan Nanda, a final year BTech computer science student at the Sambalpur University Institute of Information Technology (SUIIT).
The accused was arrested from Gandhua Pathar under Nagaon district in Assam. He was brought to Bhubaneswar on transit remand and will be produced before a court in Bhubaneswar on Friday.
The entire loan was reportedly being taken by the media house in the name of its employees. But the money was going straight to its owners.
The expulsion of Soumya seems to be an attempt by the BJD to send a strong message against the backdrop of growing views within the party. This came after Soumya was vehemently criticising the 5T Secretary in his editorials and on other platforms.
Soumya’s expulsion from the BJD has left many questions unanswered. Was he expelled for the alleged loan scam or for some other reason?
The six-time MLA today resigned from Naveen Patnaik's cabinet and filed her nomination for the Odisha Legislative Assembly’s Speaker post.
Earlier, speculations were rife that the ruling BJD, which has a majority in the House, would field a woman candidate for the Speaker’s post. If elected, Pramila Mallik will be the first woman Speaker of Odisha Assembly.
Several districts are likely to experience heavy rainfall activities in the next 48 hours and an ‘orange warning’ has been issued from some districts, said IMD.
It is now almost 13 days that the primary teachers are staging a demonstration demanding the abolition of the contractual appointment system, a hike in grade pay, and restoration of the old pension scheme
Pattanayak said that the Odisha government imposed restrictions on media entry at Lok Seva Bhawan and the lobby of the Assembly. Such restrictions were not prevalent during the Congress regime here.
Locals suspect it to be a murder case as they had spotted a jeep near the spot. Soon they noticed the body of the man lying near the same spot where the jeep had halted for some time.
As per IMD, two places in Odisha recorded extremely heavy rainfall while 19 places recorded heavy rainfall activities in the past 24 hours. Several low-lying areas also remained waterlogged following the low pressure induced rainfall.
The UGC has also instructed the Higher Education Institutions that are entitled to offer ODL and online education to upload details like- application, affidavit, regulatory authority approval and additional information on their website.