“She was recovering fast when she was in the cabin. Upon admission of the MLA, we were shifted to general ward. As of now, her condition is deteriorating," said the patient’s grandmother, Jema Nayak.
In protest against the MLA’s arrest, BJP chief whip and Keonjhar MLA Mohan Charan Majhi, Sundargarh MLA Kusum Tete and Talasara MLA Bhabani Bhoi, BJP Deogarh district president Minaketan Pradhan along with party workers had staged a dharna in front of the Deogarh police station on Sunday.
In a bizarre incident, a youth was reportedly murdered by his friends for a Hanuman coin in Deogarh. On Tuesday, the Deogarh police arrested four accused - Bishnu Kishan, Surendra Majhi, Ratani Kishan and Pradeep Majhi - in connection with the murder.
Deogarh: An Assistant Tax Collector of Deogarh Municipality, Rajendra Nayak was caught red-handed by the Vigilance officials while accepting a bribe of Rs 1700 on Thursday. As per reports, Rajendra had demanded Rs 6,400 from one Shibsankar Nayak of Ward No. 5 under the municipality area for approving his House Building Plan. However, when Shibasankar […]
Deogarh: An attempt to loot the Utkal Gramya Bank’s Balam branch in Deogarh district was foiled late last night. The robbers entered the bank by breaking open the locks of main door between 2 AM to 3 AM. Later, when they tried to enter the strong room of the bank, the siren installed inside went […]
Deogarh: The family members of 10 accused who were arrested in connection with alleged murder of a man at Kankarkhol village under Reamal Police Station limits in Deogarh district have brought serious allegations against the inspector-in-charge (IIC) of the police station. Holding a presser today, the family members of the accused persons alleged that Reamal […]
Deogarh: The carcass of a three-year-old elephant was recovered by the Forest department officials from Baradanali village under Riamal range of Deogarh forest division today. As per reports, one Fakir Nayak of Baradanali village spotted the elephant calf lying dead in his backyard near the cowshed and informed the Forest department. Subsequently, the forester and […]
Deogarh: Police arrested four persons including three members of a family on charges of killing a woman and her two children in Balinali Forest reserve under Barkote Police limits in Deogarh district. As per reports, the prime accused Bikram Kumar Pradhan used a sharp weapon to slit the throat of his wife, his 4-year-old son […]
Bhubaneswar: Six persons have been apprehended for allegedly trying to smuggle leopard hide in Odisha’s Deogarh district, forest officials said on Tuesday. The skin of a full grown leopard was seized during an operation by a team of forest personnel near Chatabarghat when it was being smuggled from Sundargarh to Sambalpur on Monday night, the […]
Deogarh: A Right To Information (RTI) enquiry has revealed startling facts about trifling expenditures made on the renovation of Deogarh Collector’s residential office. As per reports, lakhs of rupees were allegedly spent on repairing and renovating the district collector’s government quarters in Deogarh. Various IAS officers occupying the quarters had spent a lot of tax […]
Deogarh: Vehicular movement on National Highway-49 have been affected due to a dawn-to-dusk road blockade observed by members of the Deogarh district unit of BJP today. The agitators led by Deogarh BJP MLA Subash Chandra Panigrahi have been demanding immediate repair of the NH passing through Deogarh town. They alleged because of poor condition of the […]
Bhubaneswar: The Regional Meteorological Centre, Bhubaneswar today issued heavy rainfall warning for seven Odisha districts- Sundergarh, Jharsuguda, Bargarh, Kalahandi, Sonepur, Boudh and Puri. Duty officer, Ajay Nayak informed that the yesterday’s low pressure area over coastal Odisha moved towards Northwest Odisha and its neighbourhood and under its impact several parts will experience light to moderate […]
Bhubaneswar: Several parts of interior Odisha will experience heavy rainfall in the next 24 hours as under the influence of yesterday’s cyclonic circulation over West Bengal and adjoining Bangladesh, a low pressure area has formed over Central parts of Gangetic West Bengal and Jharkhand. The low pressure system will trigger rainfall in the next 24 […]
Bhubaneswar: Even as water-level in almost all the rivers in Odisha are on the rise and are nearing the danger level, no threat of flood looms large over the State as the rainfall is set to abate from today. But the water level in Mahanadi, Budhabalanga, Brahmani and Baitarani is likely to post a rise […]
Bhubaneswar: Are the mild tremors felt in western Odisha on Wednesday an indication of any big quake in the making in that part of the State? As per reports, in the dusk hours of Wednesday, western Odisha was jolted mildly by a quake epicentered at Deogarh. “A mild earthquake, with its epicentre in Deogarh district, […]
Sambalpur: Earthquake tremors were felt in several parts of western Odisha including Sambalpur, Kuchinda, Deogarh, Rourkela, Bonai and Jharsuguda around 05:48 PM today. As per reports, strong tremors were felt for few seconds following which people started to come out of their residences in the affected areas. “I was studying at home when our house started […]
Deogarh: Anti-liquor protests turned ugly when a number of women belonging to a Self Help Group (SHG) in Palasama panchayat of Deogarh district were injured after a clash erupted while they were protesting the establishment of a liquor unit in the area. As per sources, the administration had granted permission for establishment of a liquor […]
Deogarh: A security guard was found dead with gunshot wounds in his house barely a few metres from the Superintendent of Police (SP)’s residence in Deogarh district. The deceased has been identified as Rajendra Balua. Locals spotted the body of Rajendra in his house and informed the police. It is suspected that Rajendra has been […]
Deogarh/Sonepur: The plight of labourers migrating outside Odisha continues with incidents of their exploitation surfacing frequently. Some are rescued from hazardous working conditions and others end up losing their lives while the administration continues to be lethargic in tackling the issue. In one such tragic incident, a youth named Mayadhar Bariha of Halkapalipada under Binika […]
Deogarh: Worried over the long delay in procurement of paddy at Naulipada mandi near Chhatabar under Reamal Police limits of Deogarh distirct, several farmers today hit the streets and staged road blockade on NH-53 by spilling paddy on the road. Road communication between Deogarh and Angul was affected on account of the protest. According to […]
Deogarh: An Executive Engineer of Minor Irrigation Division in Deogarh was arrested by the Vigilance sleuths on Saturday while accepting a bribe of Rs 21,000 from a contractor. The executive engineer, identified as Rabindra Kumar Mehto, had reportedly sought Rs 21,000 bribe from a contractor Dilip Kumar Padhi for passing the latter’s pending bills. “A […]
Deogarh: At a time when the Odisha government is making tall claims of providing quality education and facilities to students, the girls’ hostel of the Government Educational Research and Training centre in the district tells a different story. More than 60 girl students are residing in the hostel which has only three rooms. The girls […]
Deogarh: Forest officials recovered a headless carcass of an elephant from Prabhasuni Reserve Forest near Niranjanhuli village in the district today morning. The elephant has been identified as a male tusker aged about 25 years. As per reports, some locals spotted the elephant body lying inside the forest and informed the officials. Deogarh Forest Range […]
Angul/Deogarh: In a set of two separate bizarre incidents, three persons including a couple were killed by their sons in separate incidents in the State last night. In Angul, a man and wife were beaten to death by his son Dukhishyam Baghar in Barapadar village under Kishorenagar police limits in Angul district. Police have detained […]
Deogarh: Security forces on Wednesday recovered a huge cache of explosives and items belonging to Maoists during a combing operation in a forest near Kerada village under Barkote area of Deogarh district, informed Deputy Commandant of OSAP (SS) Battalion, Laxman Singh today. Acting on a tipoff on presence of Maoist leader Sushant in the jungle, SP of […]
Bhubaneswar: There has been a disconcerting rise in crime against teenage girls in Odisha over the last few days. While lives of these girls are at stake, no noticeable steps seem to have been taken to curb such atrocities. Today, body of a minor girl was recovered by police from a cashew orchard near Gadaharishpur […]
Deogarh: In a fresh incident of violation of child rights, a minor girl has alleged sexual harassment by the owner of a Dhaba she was working in at Khadinali village under Barkote police station of Deogarh district. What is more shocking is that the girl happens to be the niece of the accused. As per the […]
Deogarh: The family of an Odia labourer, working as a bonded labourer at a factory in Gujarat, on Sunday sought the help of the district administration after he died following an accident in the factory. As per sources, Chintamani Sahu of Tinkbir village under Reamal Tehsil of Deogarh district was working as bonded labourer since […]
Deogarh: Though the State government has declared Deogarh the first ‘open defecation-free’ district, the ground reality tells a different story. Owing to the lack of piped water supply for villages in the district, people have not been able to use latrines built under the Swachh Bharat Mission. Like the villagers of Sanadangaghat in the district […]
Deogarh: Vehicular traffic on NH-49 was disrupted today due to a road blockade agitation by oustees of Rengali dam at Barkote and Thianala over three-point charter of demands. The agitators under the aegis of Rengali Basachyuta Surakhya Samiti have been sitting on a 12-hr dharna on NH-49 since 7 am. They want a compensation of […]
Deogarh: Tension prevailed after two persons were killed, including a minor girl, and two others injured in a wall collapse at Rengalbeda Seva Ashram in Riamal block of Deogarh district today. While one deceased has been identified as Kajal Mahar (10), daughter of a female worker employed in the Seva Ashram, the identity of other […]
Deogarh: Locals of Kuroda village have staged a road blockade on NH-49 presenting a four point charter of demands here in the district today. According to reports, demands of the locals include widening of the National Highway passing through the area, probe into land acquisition irregularity, involvement of locals in land acquisition and development of […]
Be it Deojharan or Similihata, the remote villages in Deogarh district are certainly the talk of the town. These tiny villages set in the picturesque mountainous backdrop, have invited many sanitation champions in recent past. Students and practitioners alike are thronging the villages to understand what it takes to construct a toilet and regularly use […]
Puri: In a major breakthrough in rape and murder of a woman in Delang here on August 1, Puri Police today arrested the accused and found his involvement in similar rape and murder of four other girls. The accused serial killer, Buddhadeba Behera of Bhinnahaja village under Kundeigola police limits, was nabbed from Deogarh after […]
Bhubaneswar: Odisha is likely to experience heavy rainfall besides thunderstorm with lightning in the next 48 hours, Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) said. Heavy rainfall is likely to occur in one or two places in north Odisha during the next 48 hours,” the IMD said in its bulletin. It also said that thunderstorm with lightning is […]
Dhenkanal: Four persons of a family from Deogarh were killed while two others critically injured when the Bolero vehicle they were travelling in was hit by a truck on NH-55 at Nadhara in Dhenkanal district. The family belonging to Landijhara of Deogarh district were on their way to Burla from SCB Medical, Cuttack when the […]
Cuttack/Deogarh: Villagers at Lalitgiri in Mahanga Tehsil of Cuttack district staged a road blockade and burnt effigy of Health and Family Welfare Minister Pratap Jena protesting water scarcity in the area today. The villagers alleged that despite sanction of money from MP Baijayant Jay Panda’s MPLAD fund for construction of bore wells, the work has […]
Deogarh: Two brothers were killed and two others injured after the bike they were travelling on skid off Kalajira old bridge near Balam village in Deogarh district today. According to sources, the two deceased and one injured were cousins, identified as Bhaskar Lohora, Punu Lohora and Bishnu Lohora. The identity of the other injured is […]
Deogarh: Two persons were killed when a Bolero car in which they were travelling was crushed between two speeding trucks at Golbandha square in the district on Saturday night. The deceased have been identified as Puspanjali Nanda, wife of Bonai forester Debadutta Nanda and their driver of the vehicle. The mishap occurred when driver of […]
Bhubaneswar: On the basis of the results of the three-tier Panchayat polls, BJP is all set to form eight Zilla Parishads (ZPs) in Odisha while Congress has to remain content with only one Zilla Parishad in Jharsuguda district. It is likely that the BJP may get Gajapati Zilla Parishad seat as a bonus, which will […]
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