The 27-year-old Vinesh entered Birmingham 2022 as a two-time champion and ensured her third straight CWG gold after going undefeated. She had won the 48kg gold at Glasgow 2014 and the 50kg division at Gold Coast 2018.
Bolangir: A divyang girl student was allegedly misbehaved with by her teacher during school hours at Chhatamakhana village under Puintala block of Bolangir district today. As per reports, the girl student studying in Class VIII alleged that her Science teacher behaved inappropriately with her during the class. After a complaint in this regard was made […]
Rourkela: Taking immediate action into the alleged thrashing of five students of Uditnagar Government High School by a cook engaged at the school hostel, the Sundergarh District Child Welfare Committee (CWC) today began probe into the incident. A two-member team of the CWC who visited the school hostel and recorded statements of the five students […]
Cuttack: Cuttack ChildLine officials today rescued a 10-year-old boy from his house in Niladri Vihar area under Chauliaganj police limits here. He was allegedly kept in captivity, tied with a chain by his grandmother for the last two months, reports said. As per sources, the boy’s father had died some years ago while his mother […]
Bhubaneswar/Tauranga (New Zealand) : Australia and India will lock horns in the final game of the ongoing ICC Under 19 Cricket World Cup in New Zealand tomorrow. The Prithvi Shaw-led Indian team has been unbeaten so far in the tourney and has also defeated Australia earlier in this World Cup by an impressive margin of […]
Kendrapara: Various awareness campaigns on protection of girl child seem to be futile as reports of newborn baby girls being abandoned are hugging headlines every other day. In yet another such incident, a newborn, believed by locals to be one or two-day old, was found abandoned at a temple near Chandapur in Kendrapara district today. […]
Kendrapara: In an inhuman act, the Marsaghai police today arrested an elderly couple while leaving behind their two granddaughters at home alone. Later after receiving information, the district child welfare committee (CWC) rescued the two girl children and took them into their custody. After the death of the mother, Sumitra Parida on August 19, the […]
Bhubaneswar: In a twist to the fire tragedy in Pal Heights hotel owner Satpal Singh’s house, the Child Welfare Committee (CWC) today registered a case and asked Childline to probe the death of domestic help Tanu Das as she was a minor. The CWC sought to know whether the minor girl was working on wage […]
Bhubaneswar: Odisha has once again raised its concern over delay in constitution of a tribunal over the Mahanadi river dispute with Chhattisgarh. Citing that such delay would give undue advantage to the Chhattisgarh government and adversely affect Odisha’s interests, the State government has written a letter to the Union secretary of Water Resources. “After the […]
Bhubaneswar: Taking strong exception to the unilateral release of Mahanadi water without prior information by Chhattisgarh government through Kalma barrage, the Odisha government has moved the Central Water Commission (CWC). Odisha has also written a letter to the Chhattisgarh government citing that such release of water would create bottlenecks in flood management. In a letter […]
Bhubaneswar: The ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) and BJP in Odisha are once again at logger heads over one-sided operation and release of water by Chhattisgarh government through Kalma barrage. Accusing the Chhattisgarh of releasing ‘excess water’ from Mahanadi River without prior information, Odisha today hinted of raising such issue with the Central Water Commission […]
Bhubaneswar: Senior BJP leader Bijoy Mohapatra on Saturday dubbed the recent remarks of Chhattisgarh commercial tax and industry minister Amar Agarwal on Mahanadi as ‘one-sided’. Addressing a press conference, Mohapatra criticised Agarwal claiming rights over Mahanadi water. Also Read:Chhattisgarh refutes charges of blocking Mahanadi water at Kalma Earlier, attending the BJP’s Sabka Saath Sabka Vikas […]
Jeypore: In an attempt to stay away from public humiliation, an unwed mother has abandoned her newborn boy at Rabanguda Community Health Centre (CWC) here in the district today. The mother is a resident of Miniguda village under Jayantgiri gram panchayat in Koraput district. The college goer mother had developed a love affair with her […]
By Dillip Kumar Pradhan Bhubaneswar: A boy strikes a stick to a vessel, another suddenly turns hyper–rushing in to performs a vault in the air preceded by a handstand and tries to contort his agile, slender body into impossible acrobatics. Another kid tries to catch attention of the passers by to the act on the […]
New Delhi/ Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Congress legislature party met the President, Pranab Mukherjee today and urged him to ask the central government to stop all ongoing contentious projects on the upper catchment areas of Mahanadi River till the dispute between Chhattisgarh and Odisha is resolved. Apprising the President that the Chhattisgarh government is illegally building […]
Bhubaneswar: Stoking the Mahanadi water controversy further, Water Resources minister of Chhattisgarh Brijmohan Agarwal has said that once the data on Mahanadi is available, Odisha will be exposed. According to Brijmohan, Odisha is using more water than stipulated in the Hirakud agreement and once the information is out, Odisha will be unmasked. “The Hirakud dam […]
Bhubaneswar: Though summer has bid us goodbye, come October, the political environment in Odisha is all set to smolder as all the three major political parties are out to launch an assault on each other on a host of issues. While the ruling-BJD will target the BJP-led central government with its ‘Padyatra;’ the Odisha BJP […]
Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Congress today asserted that the dawn-to-dusk bandh observed by the party to protest against the inaction of State and Centre over the construction of dams and barrages by Chhattisgarh on the upstream of the Mahanadi river, was a complete success even as the BJD and BJP claimed that the shutdown was ‘impact-less.’. […]
Bhubaneswar: Activists of the BJD, which has decided to stay away from the all-party meet convened by Leader of Opposition Narasingh Mishra today to discuss the projects being constructed by Chhattisgarh in the upstream of Mahanadi,stopped all goods trains to Chhattisgarh at various stations of the State and staged a hunger strike in front of […]
Bhubaneswar: A day after the Odisha chief secretary clarified that the government of Chhattisgarh had not informed Odisha about the Kelo project being undertaken by it in the upstream of river Mahanadi, a document on the Kelo project survey division, Chhatisgarh, a copy of which is in the possession of OTV, has proved that the […]