Tag: Cuttack

Jajpur:  A duplicate sauce manufacturing unit has been busted at Kundal under Badchana police limits in the district on Saturday. Acting on a tip-off, a joint team of police and administrative officials from Darpan Tehsil carried out a raid at the illegal factory and seized some bottles, machines used to prepare the sauce, raw materials, […]

Cuttack: Commissionerate Police on Sunday conducted raids at sand ghat along Mahanadi River near Paika Sahi in Gopalpur area of Cuttack district and detained 11 persons for their alleged involvement in illegal sand lifting from the region. As many as seven tractors engaged in the sand smuggling were also reportedly seized by the cops from […]

Cuttack: The Commissionerate Police has launched a special drive against bikers indulging in rash and negligent driving on the busy streets in Cuttack. As per sources, the cops have detected 43 cases of violations in a special drive launched in the past 24 hours. The special initiative was launched across the Cuttack city and driving […]

Athagarh: The Dhabaleswar Temple, one of the major Shiva shrines of Odisha, situated in Athagarh area of Cuttack district reopened its doors for all devotees on Monday after a long Covid-19-induced gap of nine months. The shrine was opened for the family members of the servitors on January 8, while the people of adjacent Mancheswar […]

Cuttack: The Odisha government on Monday told the Orissa High Court that the death of K Ramesh in Puri on November 19 last year had not occurred in the police custody. Through an affidavit, the State government told the HC that K Ramesh, a native of Baseli Sahi area in the pilgrim town, had died […]

Cuttack: A special team of Cuttack rural Police on Monday arrested one more accused in connection with the brutal murder of BJP leader Kulamani Baral and his aide Dibyasingh Baral in Mahanga, taking the total number arrestees to eight. The accused has been identified as Bhikari Swain, a local BJD leader and former block chairman […]

Cuttack: The proposed Baliyatra Riverfront Improvement (BARFI) project and expansion of SCB Medical College and Hospital on the land reclaimed from Mahanadi riverbed at Cuttack have reached the National Green Tribunal (NGT) over alleged violation of environmental norms. Environmentalists have knocked the doors of the green court raising serious concerns over the ‘illegal’ land reclaiming […]

Cuttack: Fly kites but make sure you don’t use dangerous glass-coated strings or Chinese Manja this Makar Sankranti. You will be in for trouble for the violation. Taking strong note of a string of incidents involving death and injury caused to humans and birds by sharp kite strings, the Cuttack Municipal Corporation (CMC) has banned […]

Cuttack: Eminent social worker Padma Shri D Prakash Rao passed away at the SCB Medical College and Hospital here on Wednesday after 20 day long battle with Covid-19 and related ailments. He was 63. Rao breathed his last at 4.15 pm today at the special Covid ward of the state-run premier health centre, SCB Emergency […]

Cuttack: National Vice-President of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Baijayant ‘Jay’ Panda Wednesday visited Nrutanga village under Mahanga police station in Cuttack district to meet family members of slain BJP leader Kulamani Baral and his associate Dibyasingh Baral. Panda has demanded a proper investigation into the case and arrest of all the culprits involved in […]

Cuttack: A state-of-the-art inter-state bus terminal will come up in Khannagar area of Cuttack with an expenditure of Rs 65 crore, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik announced on Wednesday. The proposed bus terminal to be named after freedom fighter Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose aimed at facilitating hassle-free movement of passengers. The bus terminal will be constructed […]

Cuttack: Eminent social worker Padma Shri D Prakash Rao, who passed away on Wednesday at the age of 63, will be cremated with full state honours at Kaliaboda crematorium here in the city today. Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, while expressing deep anguish over the sad demise of the great social worker, had announced that Rao’s […]

Cuttack: After a series of raids on illegal food adulteration units in Cuttack, the Commissionerate Police on Friday busted fake tobacco and pan masala manufacturing unit in the Silver City and arrested one person in this connection. The illegal unit was unearthed at Sasol village, around 10 kilometres away from the city, under Cuttack Sadar […]

Bhubaneswar: Various awareness events including bike rally, female two-wheeler rider rally, meetings on road safety were held across Odisha to mark the beginning of National Road Safety Month today. The National Road Safety Week is usually observed from January 11 to 17 every year but this year, the Ministry of Transport and Highways have decided […]

Cuttack: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Saturday paid rich tributes to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose on his 125th anniversary, which is observed across the country as ‘Parakram Diwas.’ Patnaik unfurled the National Flag at the Netaji Birth Place Museum at Odia Bazar. Elaborate security measures were undertaken by Commissionerate Police for the Chief Minister’s […]