News from Bhubaneswar

Adding fuel to the ongoing slugfest, Leader of Opposition (LoP) and senior BJP leader Jayanarayan Mishra, on Wednesday, brought serious allegations against police and alleged involvement of many bigwigs in the murder of Das.

Patnaik, a 1976 cadre IAS officer, was the principal secretary of CM Naveen Patnaik from 2004 to 2010. He served as the Odisha Chief Secretary from September 2010 to 2013. 

Sources said the girl had gone to the colony to meet her alleged boyfriend. However, a few women in the colony caught hold of her and brutally assaulted her in full public view.

Shallow to moderate fog very likely to occur at one or two places over the districts of Jajpur, Bhadrak, Kendrapara, Jagatsinghpur Cuttack, Angul, Dhenkanal.

While addressing a presser, Archarya stated that as the state government doesn’t have faith on the Crime Branch, it wrote to the Orissa High Court to monitor the ongoing investigation

Citing the Mahanga double murder case, Sahu said it was only after the High Court’s intervention, police took steps on the allegations against a senior and influential BJD leader.

Bhakta Prasad Nanda, the teacher of Naba Das, in an exclusive interview to OTV, raised doubts over the ongoing investigation, as the motive why the Assistant Sub-Inspector Gopal Das shot the minister is still unclear.

Actors, actresses, Nanda’s well-wishers & fans turned up at the Bhubaneswar airport to wish him a speedy recovery. As the actor was being wheeled into the airport in a wheelchair, his fans bid him farewell and wished him to come back soon after recovery.  

The opposition parties have slammed the ruling BJD for putting more emphasis on the bypoll and vote margin instead of trying to unravel the mystery surrounding the brutal murder of Naba Das.

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has predicted that several parts of Odisha will witness above-normal maximum (day) temperature.

As per the official advertisement, these are tenure vacancies under funded project and are not employment from AIIMS Bhubaneswar pay roll.

“Our preparation for the President’s visit has already been started. We will take all the steps as per the security guidelines to make sure that the President’s visit ends well,” informed Commissioner of Police Soumendra Priyadarshi.  

The duration of the certificate course will be three months and it aims at enabling the primary knowledge about the language studies.

All the three injured are staff of the hotel who are now undergoing treatment at the Capital hospital. In this connection, the police have detained one person for questioning. 

While talking to reporters, the OPCC chief said that there have been incidents of murder in the past. But the Chief Minister has failed to protect his own cabinet minister. It is for the first time in the history of Odisha that a police officer has shot dead a minister.