Tag: Bolangir

Bhubaneswar: Speed trial of a train on the newly constructed track between Bolagarh Road and Nayagarh of the Khurda Road-Bolangir railway line project will be conducted by the Railways today to check if the section is fit for running passengers trains. Earlier on May 11, a trial run of an engine had been conducted on […]

Bolangir: A three member team has begun probe into the issue of tissue papers being found in a medicine strip in Bolangir district on Sunday. The team started the investigation from a private hospital at Tikirapada in the district. The team was formed following an incident on Saturday where a woman of Bileisarada village under […]

Bolangir: One Iswar Chandra Das, has been found absconding after allegedly duping several women of nearly Rs 1 crore in Bolangir district. According to sources, Das cheated a large number of women on the pretext of providing them loan at a lower rate of interest. Reports said Das opened a company named Bandhan Finance Private […]

Bolangir: Tension prevailed at the Lower Suktel project site in the district today after the displaced people, mostly women, staged a dharna halting the on-going construction work of the dam demanding immediate rehabilitation and a revision of the compensation package. They went in a rally to the site and demanded shut down of construction activities […]

Bolangir: In a tragic incident, four Odias including three members of a family died in a road accident at Gangtok in Sikkim. The deceased include a couple and their daughter of Talapalipada villlage of Bolangir district. According to sources four Odia families had gone to Gangtok for the summer vacation in two vehicles. One of […]

Bolangir: Around a hundred beneficiaries of the Integrated Housing and Slum Development Programme (IHSDP) gheraoed the Bolangir Municipality office protesting financial irregularity in the scheme. The activists, including women, under the banner of the Aam Admi Party (AAP), gheraoed the Municipality office and demanded immediate provision of pending financial assistance. They alleged that the beneficiaries […]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha government on Wednesday constituted a three-member team to verify the truth behind alleged distress sale of onions in different parts of the state. A three member team comprising officials from the food supplies and consumer welfare department, horticulture department and Markfed will visit Bolangir and Kalahanmdi district to verify allegation of distress sale of onions, […]

Bolangir: After a few days of lull, Maoist posters were again found in Patnagarh area of Bolangir district today creating panic among the nearby villagers. According to sources, Mao posters with various demands issued by the BBM Maoist Division were found on the Kantabanji-Padmapur road at Gangasagar village, two kilometres from Patnagarh. Mao banners were […]

Patnagarh: BJP activists led by MLA KV Singhdeo today staged a sit-in in-front of the local electricity office here in Bolangir district in protest against frequent power cuts in the area. The protesters alleged that normal life has been miserably affected due to undeclared power cuts even as the mercury hovers around 45 degrees C […]

Bolangir: There has been a rise in incidents of wild animals straying into human settlements as four such cases have been reported from Bolangir district in the last two months. Today, two persons at Raksimunda village under Puintala police limits were injured in a bear attack. On May 12 a bear had entered Bichuali village […]

Bolangir: Vehicular movement in Patnagarh NAC of Bolangir district came to a standstill today as locals burnt tyres and staged agitation on the streets protesting power failure and water scarcity in the area for the past 72 hours. Talking to OTV a local alleged, “We have taken to the streets as we have not received […]

Bhubaneswar: For some, life pans out in a manner where opulence in what they give back never makes them deficient of anything. Not one, not two, but Purnima Behera has been a mother to 23 children, without ever bearing one. Purnima has built temple of motherhood at Kansaripara in Bolangir district where she has adopted […]

Bolangir: A bear which climbed atop a tree after attacking a woman from Bichuali village under Belpara block of Bolangir district gave a nightmare to the villagers who tried to capture the carnivore. According to sources, the bear attacked and injured a woman of the village following which the villagers tried to round up the […]

Patnagarh: In a shocking incident, a mentally challenged person allegedly hacked his wife to death with an axe before hanging himself in his house last night at Changharia village here under Larambha police limits in Bolangir district. The body of Sukanath Bariha was found hanging while his wife Gitanjali’s body was lying in a pool […]

Bolangir: Vehicular movement came to a standstill between Bolangir and Kantabanji as locals staged a road blockade on the national highway (NH) near Belpada protesting water scarcity in Belpada area under Patnagarh subdivision of the district. Large number of people, including women, blocked the NH and demanded immediate supply of drinking water to all households in the area. “We […]