Tag: Beggars

Cuttack district tops the list with 1,060 beggars.

Puri: A gang of girls sporting jeans and t-shirts along with some women found begging near Gundicha temple in Puri were detained by police today. The incident came to light when the girls fled the spot after seeing an approaching police control room (PCR) van near Gundicha Temple. Later on it was found out that […]

The inevitable has happened. BJD supremo and Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has finally wielded his dreaded axe, which many suspected was rusting in his fourth term, on his Agriculture Minister Dr. Damodar Rout. The decision was not entirely unexpected because he had been embarrassing the party, its leader and his ministerial colleagues for far too […]

Bhubaneswar: A total of 6,390 beggars have been identified in Odisha with Cuttack topping the list among all the districts, the State government informed today. Replying to the question of MLA Prashant Behera in the Assembly today, Social Security and Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities (SSEPD) Minister, Ashok Chandra Panda informed that as many as […]