Tag: Bhubaneswar

A day after a couple from Aska in Ganjam was arrested for cheating people after promising them to give new cars at discounted rates, startling revelations are now surfacing, indicating their links with some police personnel.

The Odisha Vigilance sleuths on Friday arrested Chief Civil Supplies Officer (CCSO) Prashanta Kumar Gantayat on the charges of accumulating Disproportionate Assets (DA) in Bhubaneswar. 

Angry students staged a sit-in outside the college gate and shouted slogans against Minister Ashok Panda who was invited to attend the programme as chief guest.

Meteorologist Umashankar Das said that the winter chill that Odisha has been experiencing for the last several days will subside from Saturday, but most parts of the state will experience foggy conditions.

Among the literary figures feted on the occasion were Odia litterateur Baishnab Charan Mohanty, Bengali litterateur Dr Bidisha Sinha and Urdu litterateur from Uttar Pradesh, Nushrat Mehndi. Besides, litterateurs from Kolkata, Madhya Pradesh, Goa, Gujarat and Maharashtra were honoured.  

The accused have been identified as Subrat Sethi (Father), Vishnu Prusty (First husband of the child’s mother), Sharat Mohanty and Brajakishore Nath.

Over a dozen of them started a marathon towards Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik's residence Naveen Niwas in Bhubaneswar after the two-month-long protest by locals demanding renovation of the stadium cut no ice with the district administration. 

Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has admitted the problem but came out with an explanation that the sterlisation drive for street dogs has not been carried out due to legal hassles.

The BJP has been carrying out Satyagrah in front of the Sainik School demanding quick removal of the massive mound of garbage at Gadakana as people in the area and its periphery continue to suffer due to foul smell.

If you are a vendor and receiving digital payments through a QR code, then beware. A new kind of scam came to the fore in Bhubaneswar.

Honey trap accused Archana Nag allegedly received death threats from two unknown miscreants on Friday while she was on her way to appear for an examination in Bhubaneswar. 

As per the Director of Capital Hospital Dr Laxmidhar Sahu, the number of dog bite cases has increased in the last one month and special care will be taken in this regard soon.

BJD leader Debi Mishra announced that 5T chairperson VK Pandian will not fight elections even as the ruling party has also decided to postpone elections to its oranisational structure by a year. 

Are you buying land and leaving it unused for years in the twin cities of Cuttack and Bhubaneswar? Beware! You may not know and your land might be sold off by fraudsters using fake documents.

Such practice was recently reported from the Shyampur area which is located on the outskirts of the State capital.