Tag: Ganjam

The farmers are forced to sell paddy to the traders of the neighbouring state at less than Rs 1,500 per quintal.

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. 

The victims of Sahara chit fund scam organised a massive rally today and gheraoed the RDC in Berhampur of Ganjam district demanding the return of their invested money.

Circumstantial evidence and certain words written in the banner point to the involvement of the Maoists, who are believed to have put up the banners to threaten some contractors engaged in the border areas and intend to extort money from them. 

The owner of the ghee-making unit, identified as Ipari Rajeswar Patra, was earlier arrested in 2020 for illegal guthka trading.

After the post-mortem, the relatives of the deceased brought the body back to their village. But the hearse had to stop four kilometres away from their village due to a lack of a pucca road. 

The people in Jagatsahi and the peripheral villagers were shocked after hearing a massive explosion in the evening.

While political observers are keeping a close watch on what kind of role the ex-bureaucrat is going to play in the BJD politics, rumour mills have gone into overdrive that he could be contesting elections in 2024 from any of 13 Assembly segments in Ganjam.

They resolved to find their own way out of the crisis and constructed around three kilometers of pipelines using bamboo to fetch water from the springs originating from surrounding hills to their doorstep.

According to sources, the family members went to bed after having their dinner late Sunday night. However, they complained of vomiting and diarrhoea soon after.

In view of the deficit rainfall, the Odisha government has prepared a contingency plan to save the crops from the wrath of nature.

Police had to resort to mild lathi-charge to control the situation. As many as 15 BJP workers have been detained.

As per reports, the duo attempted to overtake a truck on their bike on Thursday morning. However, they somehow lost balance and fell under the wheels of the truck which ran them over killing them on the spot.

World Nature Conservation Day is observed every year on the 28 of July to sensitise people to conserve nature and animals. As is being said - “The era of global warming has ended, and the era of global boiling has arrived.”

Thanks to the awareness about the conservation of nature and massive protection drive by local people and Forest Department officials, the blackbuck population has increased threefold in Odisha’s Ganjam district over the last 12 years.