News from Bhubaneswar

Jateswar School was inaugurated less than two months ago. It has classes from Standard I to VIII with around 150 students. But, after a brief downpour, rainwater flooded the classrooms of the school, leaving the students as well as the staff a worried lot. 

Unidentified miscreants have allegedly looted gold ornaments, motorcycle, TV and other articles worth Rs 12 lakh from Panda’s government quarters yesterday

Addressing a presser in Bhubaneswar, Odisha BJP General Secretary, Prithviraj Harichandan said that the ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) is now doing new political drama instead of implementing the PMAY, to hide its own inefficiency ahead of 2024 polls.

As per the IMD, several parts of Odisha will experience heavy rainfall activities in the next few days.  A yellow warning has also been issued for some districts.

Alleging massive corruption, the BJP activists gheraoed the Tata Power office in Bhubaneswar.  A scuffle broke out after the saffron party activists tried to lock the main gate of the power distribution company.

Six naga sadhus came to the Gundicha temple at Raghunathpur on Saturday and spent the night there.  During their stay, they made acquaintance with their victim, a resident of Raghunathpur village.

“Who has given such rights to the 5T secretary? Why the Chief Minister is not stopping him if such things are happening without his consent? Action should be taken against the 5T secretary for violating the rules,” OPCC chief Bijay Patnaik observed. 

The cyber-financial fraud came to light after Ratna Tripathy of Nayapalli area Bhubaneswar lodged a complaint in this regard. The victim alleged that she received a phone call on June 19 where the caller introduced himself as an employee of FedEx, Hyderabad.

Earlier, the IMD had issued an alert for thunderstorms and heavy spells of rain in several parts of Odisha in the next three hours today.

Meanwhile, a low-pressure system is also likely to form over the Bay of Bengal along the coast of Odisha and West Bengal today.

The Bhubaneswar Special Court pronounced its judgment after hearing 11 witnesses and going through 15 documents and several circumstantial evidence. 

As per reports, Rout has amassed assets of more than Rs 5.21 crore which is 506 per cent of his known source of income.

The STF is now trying to join the dots as one of the accused Pritam Kar (31), who was arrested from Jajpur district, had provided SIM card and debit card which was used by the accused involved in the last year’s Mangalore auto blast (terror act).

The team has been constituted following the NGT's order on June 12 to look into the reports of violation of the Forest Act, 1980 by the Sikharchandi Hills project undertaken in Bhubaneswar.

As per the IMD, heavy to very heavy rainfall is very likely to occur at one or two places over the districts of Cuttack, Jajpur, Dhenkanal, Keonjhar and Mayurbhanj.