News from Sundargarh

Family members said they couldn’t take him to the hospital as it was raining and the road from where they can get vehicles for the hospital is also not within walking distance from their house. This apart, elephants were on the prowl in the locality on that fateful night. 

Senior police officials said that both the deceased lady postmaster Snigdha Pradhan and Nayan were in a relationship. However, Nayan stabbed Snigdha to death multiple times using a knife.

In a glaring example of such apathy, one Bari Dehuri of Toda village under Kalta Panchayat in Sundargarh district, who is in her 80s, has to walk at least four kilometers through ghat roads every month to collect her pension.

As per reports, the school was transformed just eight months back under the 5T initiative of the Odisha government. However, it is alleged that the contractor and officials resorted to corruption as indicated by the falling concrete from the roof.

As per reports, the Vigilance team has unearthed more assets disproportionate to Rout’s known sources of income. The Vigilance has reportedly found six benami bank accounts, deposits of Rs 1.2 crore, and two benami plots in Bhadrak and Bhubaneswar.

The bizarre incident was reported from the bride's house located in Dhama area of Sambalpur district. The groom is a native of Sambalpur.

As per the Vigilance, Behera has been forwarded to the court of the Special Judge, Vigilance in Sundargarh for possession of disproportionate assets, which he could not account for satisfactorily.

The raids on the assistant engineer’s properties were conducted on the strength of the search warrants issued by the Special Judge of Sundargarh Vigilance Department.

Taking the rise in temperature into consideration, the MeT office has issued yellow warning for heatwave for Sundargarh, Jharsuguda, Sambalpur and Sonepur districts today.

Three persons including a suspected thief and two employees of a road construction company died after getting hit by a dumper truck on Monday night near Bileimundia under Sundargarh’s Hemagiri police limits.

The girls first complained of stomach pain. Later, they had bouts of vomiting and diarrhoea. The school authorities immediately shifted the students in an ambulance to K Balang government hospital.

A few days back, the OAS officer had filed a police complaint against her father Ramesh Chandra and brother Sangram Kumar alleging assault.

The miscreants riding on a numberless bike fled the spot after snatching Rs 9 lakh from the trio. 

While a female jumbo died at Ulusura reserve forest under Jarada range in Sundargarh district, another tusker succumbed after coming in contact with a live wire fence laid for poaching wild boar in Binika, earlier on Tuesday.

The deceased have been identified as Jagdish Oram and Umakant Patel. While Oram used to work as a shift-in-charge, Patel was a machine operator in the mines.