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Nayagarh: Fresh allegations have been levelled against Inspector General of Police Arun Bothra, the head of the Special Investigation Team (SIT) currently investigating the abduction and murder of five-year-old girl of Jadupur village in Nayagarh district. A complaint has been lodged against Bothra at the Nayagarh Sadar Police Station, wherein he has been accused of […]

Bhubaneswar: The key elements of the probe in the sensational murder case of the five-year-old minor girl in Nayagarh revealed by SIT chief Arun Bothra is sure to shake the conscience of the state and the nation. He said the accused youth killed the minor girl when she resisted his sexual advances, and then eventually […]

Bhubaneswar: Notwithstanding the high sounding claims by the Odisha government, the latest new payroll data released by the Employment Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) on Monday bares the chinks in employment creation potential of Odisha. Sample The Acuteness in Odisha As on the end of August this year, Odisha has over 6.2 lakh unemployed youths, who […]

Bhubaneswar: Passengers with travel history of UK and transiting through the airports in UK and returning to Odisha will be advised to remain in mandatory 14 days home quarantine with self-monitoring and periodic monitoring by the Rapid Response Team. This is part of the SOP released by Odisha government as per the protocols issued by […]

Rourkela: Two persons including the loco pilot of a goods train were injured after the train derailed near Bimlagarh junction in Sundargarh district on Tuesday. The goods guard of the train was also reportedly injured during the incident. As per reports, the train was coming from Barasuan under K Balanga police limits in the district […]

Paradip: About 100 MLAs including Odisha Assembly Speaker S N Patro on Tuesday visited Indian navy warship ‘INS Jalaswa’. The MLAs along with Jagatsinghpur MP Rajashree Mallick, were taken to the deep see in the warship where they spent about 6 hours. They were told about the operations of the Indian Navy like military tactics, […]

Malkangiri: In a major seizure, the Malkangiri Police and the District Voluntary Force (DVF) in a joint combing operation busted a Maoist hideout in a stronghold area of Left-wing extremists (LWE) in Malkangiri district bordering Andhra Pradesh along the extension of Swabhiman Anchal, and recovered IEDs and other Maoist articles from the camp on Tuesday. […]

By Sandeep Sahu On the face of it, there is little reason to doubt the veracity of the SIT narrative on what exactly happened to Nayagarh minor girl and how on that fateful day of July 14, 2020. The fact that there are not too many buyers for SIT chief Arun Bothra’s version of events […]

Phulbani: Intense cold wave continued to sweep several parts of Odisha while Phulbani and Daringbadi in Kandhamal district witnessed mild frost as temperature in these two places dipped below 5 degree Celsius on Wednesday morning. A thin layer of ice was seen on ground, above the roofs of cars and houses in interior areas of […]

Cuttack: The Bharatiya Bikash Parishad, a social organisation,  on Wednesday filed a miscellaneous petition in the Orissa High Court seeking direction for polygraph test of Arun Bothra, the head of the Special Investigation Team (SIT) investigating the murder of five-year old girl at Jadupur in Nayagarh district. The petitioner, Surendra Panigrahi, who has reiterated his […]

Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik seems to have emerged as the Teflon leader in Odisha.  Apparently having a firm belief in the popular saying, “Design” is the silent ambassador of your brand”, Naveen ‘designed’ a niche brand for himself. After assuming the mantle of Odisha in 2000, the era when corruption was at its zenith […]

Bhubaneswar: With the Central government expecting to roll out Covid-19 vaccine anytime soon, Odisha has come up with a slew of measures to ensure smooth implementation of the mass vaccination programme against Coronavirus. The Health and Family Welfare Minister Naba Kishore Das on Wednesday said that Odisha will follow the Central government’s guidelines to roll […]

Cuttack: The Orissa High Court on Thursday allowed Gopalpur MLA Pradeep Panigrahi to meet his lawyer in jail. Panigrahi has been lodged in a special cell at the Jharpada Jail following his arrest by the State Crime Branch on charges of forgery, fraud and criminal conspiracy, on December 3. The High Court’s interim order came […]

Bhubaneswar: In what could redefine the sports landscape in Odisha, the country’s biggest hockey stadiums will come up in the city of Rourkela. Announcing this, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Thursday said the new world class hockey stadium in Rourkela will have a sitting capacity for 20,000 spectators. “The stadium along with the allied […]

Nayagarh: Amidst questions pouring in from all sides on the veracity of the SIT version in the ‘rape and murder’ of the five-year-old girl at Jadupur in Nayagarh district, senior IPS officer Arun Bothra, the head of the Special Investigation Team (SIT) investigating the case, today clarified on the missing-bones claims and the doubts raised […]