Tag: Angul

Angul: A person died in a road accident at Phuljhari under the Chhendipada police station in Angul district today. The deceased was identified as Gurubari Nayak Phuljhari village. He died after being hit by a Tata Ace. Angry over the situation, locals staged a road blockade demanding compensation for the family members of the diseased. […]

Bhubaneswar/Angul: A day after the tragic bus accident that claimed six lives in Angul, the district administration held rash driving and over loading responsible for the mishap. Based on the report of three-member probe committee formed by the administration, Angul Collector Anil Samal also made the carelessness of the biker, who was also killed after […]

Angul: With the death of six passengers in a tragic road accident near Tukuda in Angul district this afternoon, the district administration, acting on the directive of the state government, formed a three-member committee to probe into the incident. Making an announcement to this effect in the media in the evening, Angul Collector Anil Kumar […]

Angul: Five passengers and a motorcyclist died while 34 passengers were injured, 18 of them seriously, after a private bus in which they were travelling fell off a bridge near Tukuda under Jarpada block, about 20 km from Angul, on National Highway-55 after colliding with a bike this afternoon. Reports said the ill-fated bus Janhamamu […]

Angul: In a broad daylight heist, two miscreants looted cash worth Rs 4 lakh from a private company employee near the State Bank of India (SBI) building in Gandhi Marg area after attacking him with a sharp weapon. The seriously injured employee was rushed to the district headquarters hospital. Talking to OTV, the victim, Mohan […]

Bhubaneswar: Around 18,000 buses and passenger carrying vehicles will stay off road during the 24-hour bus strike on September 29 across the State, said the bus owners’ association today. Talking to media persons, Debendra Sahu, general secretary of the bus owners’ association said, “As per the earlier decision, from 6 am on September 29 to […]

Bhubaneswar: Following the deadly bus accident in Angul in which 19 persons were killed and 30 others were critically injured after a bus fell off a bridge, the State government has woken up to decide that speed governors will be installed in all passenger buses. In a meeting between the bus owners association and the […]

The Angul District Police today nabbed the driver of the ‘Maharaja’ bus, Birendra Behera, after a chase on the Athamallick-Sambalpur route

Angul: In a tragic incident, bodies of three minor brothers were recovered from a well while their mother was rescued by the locals at Gurujanga village under Kishore Nagar police limits in the district on Saturday. After being rescued, the mother, identified as Sobhagini Behera, is absconding. Shobhagini jumped into the well near the house […]

Bolangir: The vigilance sleuths on Friday arrested the executive engineer of Rural development department on his way to Angul with hefty sums allegedly acquired illegally. RD engineer Debendra Patnaik was going to his house in Angul in a scorpio vehicle with Rs 4.58 lakh cash. The anti graft sleuths seized the money after the accused […]

Angul: In a tragic incident, a couple in Kathapala village under Chhendipada village committed suicide by consuming poison over a family dispute on Friday night. The deceased have been identified as Bibhuti Behera and his wife Hemalata. While Bibhuti died at the Chendipada hospital, his wife Hemalata died at Angul District Headquarters Hospital, sources said.

Angul: At least six out of the 16 Congress activists arrested in Angul during the 12-hour bandh called by the party on August 16 over the Mahanadi issue were taken ill due to their hunger strike and were admitted to hospital today. Of the six Congress activists, four, including district unit president Pratap Pradhan, were […]

Angul: Eggs were hurled at police personnel by Congress activists during a gherao of the office of the superintendent of police (SP) here today in protest against the arrest of 16 party activists, including Angul district unit president Pratap Chandra Pradhan, during the 12-hour bandh on Tuesday. The eggs hurled by the irate Congress workers […]

Condemning the visit of a five-member team of the Angul Municipality to the temporary dumping yard at Talmulsasan village under Banarpal, the district administration said the officials of the civic body went for site inspection without informing the administration

Angul: In daring robbery, three unidentified goons looted Rs 12.60 lakh in cash from two employees of a petrol pump at Chendipada area here on Monday. According to sources, the incident took place when Basant Kumar Majhi and Rajendra Kumar Agarwal, two employees of a petrol pump located at Gopinathpur, were going to State Bank […]