Tag: Bhadrak

Bhadrak: An 11-year-old boy died allegedly after being administered wrong medicines at a clinic operating inside a chemist shop in Ghanteswar Bazaar of Bhadrak district on Thursday. The matter came to the fore yesterday after the family members of the minor boy lodged a police complaint against the clinic owner identified as Madanmohan. Reports said […]

Bhadrak: A man and his daughter sustained critical injuries after being reportedly attacked by a youth near Dalimbagadia square in Bhadrak district yesterday over a suspected one-sided love affair. As per reports, Rabindra Sahu and his daughter Smita (name changed) had gone to Cuttack for a medical check-up on Saturday. Later in the day, they […]

Bhadrak: Railway Protection Force (RPF) officials on Tuesday arrested three persons including a station master on the charges of stealing goods from a parcel van of a train in Odisha. The accused have been identified as KB Ojha, the station master of Majuri Road Railway Station in Bhadrak district, porter Samsun Biswal and Santosh Senapati, […]

Kalahandi/Jajpur/Bhadrak: At least four persons were killed and three others sustained multiple injuries in separate road mishaps in different places in Odisha on Thursday. In the first mishap, a couple out for morning walk died after being run over by an unidentified vehicle at around 5 AM near Mahichala village chhak on NH-26 under Junagarh […]

Bhadrak: Adding to unabated rise in sexual harassment cases against women and girls in Odisha, a minor girl was allegedly raped by a youth in Keshpur village under Rambila panchayat of Bhadrak. The accused was arrested by the police today after the matter came to the fore. According to reports, the survivor who belongs to […]

Bhadrak: For Dinabandhu Sutar of Narasinghpur in Bhadrak district, age is truly just a number. Even in the dusk of his life, Dinabandhu is still running strong to destroy everyone’s age stereotypes. With sheer willpower and enviable endurance unnatural to his age, Dinabandhu has always ignited his undying love for his profession. Dinabandhu, who was […]

Bhadrak: Tihidi Block Development Officer (BDO) Dibyajyoti Smrutiranjan Deo has landed in trouble for repeatedly defying ruling of Orissa High Court. According to sources, the BDO had allegedly transferred funds from one project to use them on some other projects. This apart, he had also reportedly transferred various projects under ‘Ama Gaon Ama Vikash’ initiative […]

Bhadrak: In yet another instance of crime against girls in Odisha, a Class 3 student was allegedly raped inside a school under Dhusuri police limits in Bhadrak district on Tuesday. A youth, identified as Sashikant Mallick, allegedly entered the campus of the school and raped the minor girl in a toilet of the school after […]

Bhadrak: At least two persons were killed and more than 30 injured after a head-on collision between a truck and a bus, carrying Urs pilgrims, near Banta Chhak on National Highway-16 in Bhadrak district in the wee hours of Friday. The injured were admitted to Bhadrak District Headquarters Hospital (DHH) for treatment. Six pilgrims who […]

Bhubaneswar: Several places across Odisha including capital city Bhubaneswar, Balasore and Bhadrak received light rainfall today which affected normal life of people. According to the Regional Meteorological Department in Bhubaneswar, rainfall is likely to affect several places today and tomorrow under the impact of a trough line. Cloudy weather is likely to be witnessed in […]

Bhadrak: Hundreds of residents of Ghanteswar area including youths and elderly persons walked at least 40 kilometres on Thursday seeking appointment of permanent doctor at the local Primary Health Centre (CHC). The marchers alleged that despite repeated requests to the concerned authorities seeking recruitment of medical staff at the health centre, their demands have remained […]

Bhadrak: With the mushrooming of illegal brick kilns in Sohada Revenue Circle under Dhamnagar block of Bhadrak district, there is an apprehension among the locals about rise in pollution levels in the area. Reports suggest that as many as six panchayats of Sohada are getting badly affected due to the brick kilns operating in the […]

Bhadrak: It was really an emotionally charged spectacle when an elderly woman in Charampa of Bhadrak district broke down while stumbling upon her doctor, who had treated her four years back. A video, which purportedly captured the doctor-patient emotional bonding, has now gone viral on different social media platforms. In the video, the elderly woman […]

Bhadrak: Girl students of BNMA College in Paliabindha under Tihidi block of Bhadrak district have brought charges of harassment and threat against an official of the college. As per allegations, one employee named Akshay had demanded a bribe of Rs 4,000 from them at the time of their admission into undergraduate courses. They denied to […]

Bhadrak: A Plus-III first-year girl student of AB College here was found dead on railway tracks near Basudevpur area in Bhadrak district on January 20. While police had registered an unnatural death case following a preliminary investigation, the case took a new turn after a few intimate photos of the girl with two youths went […]