Khordha district has carved out of the former Puri District on 1st April, 1993. Despite repeated onslaughts from Maratha and Muslim cavalry, it managed to maintain the glory of its independence of royal fort till 1803. Therefore, the Royal Fort is spelt with reverence as “Khordhagada” and is referred as the “last independent fort” which remained free from the clutches of East India Company for a long period (from 1757, the Battle of Plassey after which the East India Company established company rule in Bengal till 1803).This resistance movement of Odias was recorded by the British historians as “Paik Rebellion”, which was in fact, the first Independence war of India. It originated in Khordha soil and spread to other parts of Odisha in 1817 much prior to the outbreak of the historical Sepoy Mutiny of 1857.Khordha is famous for Kora khai which is traditional Odia food offered to Lord Lingraj (Shiva) as Prasad.
Sources said, she along with another youth who named himself Smruti Ranjan Jena checked into the hotel on Sunday evening as a married couple. However, Smruti never returned to the hotel after leaving the room at 11pm to bring dinner.
It is suspected that the couple took the extreme step after failing to repay the loan they had availed from a private finance company recently. On getting information, police rushed to the spot and rushed the couple to the hospital in Khordha. But they were declared dead by the doctors, sources said.
Manmath, the youngest son of Suresh Routray has been helping his father in politics and constituency management for the last few years.
Senior police officials said that the accused Manoj Parida of Ganjam district is a noted criminal and around 13 cases are pending against him at various police stations. All the four accused involved in the contractor's murder have been produced before the court.
The miscreants opened three rounds of fire at Ramesh, leading to his death on the spot.
The train was reportedly parked on platform number 2 at the station when some people spotted smoke emanating from a wagon.
A 27-year-old girl recently lodged a written complaint with Khordha Model Police station alleging that a youth brainwashed her into converting to Islam with false promise of marriage after a relationship of eight years.
G Mathi Vathanan, Urban Development Department secretary said, “CM has approved the metro rail project for Bhubaneswar capital region which will also include Cuttack and connect with Jatni-Khordha and later Puri.”
The deceased has been identified as Abhinandan Panda. He was married and residing in a mess in Jatni.
Babuli Khanda is a native of Bishnupur village in Balasore’s Baliapal area. Kakatpur in Puri district, far kilometers away from Bishnupur, is the village of Kiranbala Nayak. They have one thing in common. They are deaf and dumb.
For a construction work, Kishore had signed an agreement and pledged Rs 15 lakh towards security money. He was to get back the deposit money after the completion of the work.
If you see a girl standing in place of a man on the gurd van of a goods train, then don’t get surprised. Because she would be Sasmita Sarkar from Nabarangpur in Odisha, who is posted at Khordha Road Railway Division as a Goods Train Manager.
Surprisingly, the beneficiaries were members of one family identified as -Bichitrananda Jena, his wife Ananya Routray, and their son Biswajit Routray.
Though it sounds unbelievable, in the absence of doctors for over months, pharmacists are attending to patients while sweepers are testing blood pressure and attendants are administering injections. Such a situation reportedly prevails in several healthcare centres in Khordha district.
“Under the influence of a prevailing low-level moist easterly from Bay of Bengal and middle and upper-tropospheric westerly trough, an increase in thunderstorm activity is very likely over districts of Odisha during next 4-5 days,” said IMD.
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