Tag: Bolangir

The artist has depicted Lord Ram as a warrior. The cloth of the image was painted saffron while the body was coloured blue. The image of Lord Ram holds a bow in his left arm and an arrow in his right hand while a quiver has been slung across the shoulder.

A luxury car and other important documents were also seized from the possession of the accused.

The famous tribal festival, ‘Sulia Jatra’ began on Tuesday with pomp and gaiety in Khairguda village of Bolangir district.

As per initial reports, Krushna allegedly hacked his wife Anjana to death with an axe when the latter had gone to take a bath in a river near the village.

As per the reports, the victim had gone out to attend nature’s call on Wednesday night. Buts she never returned home.

They have been sitting on dharna since last evening after a miscreant identified as Samir Badamali from Rajendrapara in Bolangir allegedly assaulted a house surgeon of the hospital, Biswaranjan Sahu.

When the president of the Khaprakhol Block Sarpanch Association, Sushil Guru opposed the irregularities, the SDO of the Public works department, Siddharth Das allegedly attacked the former on Tuesday.

Police got information that the three labour contractors were taking the local people on a train to Hyderabad where they would have been engaged in a brick kiln. Police conducted a raid at Ghuchapali Chhak and rescued them.

Special teams of Bolangir police conducted raids at several places in the country to arrest six looters of the gang.

Process for shifting of Dhal Samant has already been started in presence of Bolangir police. He will be carried in a live support ambulance with ICU facility from VIMSAR to SCB.

Supply of subsidized rice to the poor under the public distribution system (PDS) has gone for a toss in some areas of Bolangir district allegedly due to a massive scam that came to the fore through RTI queries.  

The ATM was replenished with cash last evening. In the morning, locals found the ATM kiosk broken and immediately informed the police. Electric wires connected to the kiosk, CCTV, and the ATM were found snapped and burnt.

People have started to raise questions if the Income Tax department will only confine its raids to western Odisha and not to other parts where the illegal liquor trade has assumed the proportions of a cottage industry. 

Reliable sources said a three-member team of the ED led by its joint director visited the IT department office on Tuesday and a formal announcement about the ED probe into the huge cash seizure from liquor distilleries is expected soon.

Country liquor manufacturing has been going on in Bolangir for decades while Badev Sahu & Sons has over 100 country liquor units. Many wonder as to why the liquor-making license was being renewed in the name of one person over the years.