Keonjhar: Demanding immediate arrest of the miscreants involved in pelting stones at the vehicle of School & Mass Education Minister Badri Narayan Patra on Sunday, supporters of the minister staged a road blockade near Jarda Chhak in Anandapur on NH-20 today. As per reports, commuters faced difficulty while heavy vehicles remained stranded on both sides […]
Anandpur: Vice chairperson of the Anandpur municipality Suresh Sahu was arrested today in Bhubaneswar for his alleged involvement in a group clash during the Raja procession in Ghasipura, Keonjhar district. Earlier, locals had gheraoed the local police station demanding immediate arrest of the persons involved in the scuffle during the procession on last day of […]
Keonjhar: Demanding immediate arrest of persons involved in a group clash, locals today gheraoed the Ghasipura police station. Two villagers were injured in a group clash on Friday evening while a Raja procession was going on. Though three complaints were filed in connection with the scuffle, no one has been arrested yet. Meanwhile, the local […]
Brahmagiri/Ghasipura/Bhuban: Amid tight security arrangements repolling is on at different places across Odisha where voting process was cancelled due to loot of ballot box, booth capturing and other poll-related disturbances in the recently concluded four phases panchayat polls. CCTV cameras were installed at booth no 6 in Mathapatna village under Ambapada panchayat and booth no […]
Anandpur: Hundreds of supporters today met the Keonjhar collector and submitted him a memorandum demanding early construction work of the Kusei bridge near Belabahali village. Reports said the supporters met the collector N Thirumala Nayak at a grievance meeting in Ghasipura block and expressed their concern over the tardy pace of work in the construction […]
Two police complaints were registered at the Ghasipura police station of Keonjhar district today after four Home Guards were injured in an attack of residents of Belbahali village yesterday
Bhubaneswar: A day after the Odisha government enforced the Essential Services Maintenance Act (ESMA) against the striking workers of the 108 ambulance, FIRs were lodged against 12 employees of the emergency service at Mahakalapada police station in Kendrapara while two workers were detained at Ghasipura in Keonjhar district. “Some of the workers were detained in […]
Bhubaneswar: Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC) chief Niranjan Patnaik on Monday accepted the challenge thrown by School and Mass Education Minister and BJD candidate from Ghasipura Assembly constituency Badri Narayan Patra, to contest from the Ghasipura seat. Accepting the challenge from his arch-rival yesterday, Patnaik announced that he would contest from Bhandaripokhari Assembly constituency and […]
Bhubaneswar: Even before Congress had finalised its candidate for the Ghasipura Assembly constituency in Keonjhar, the poll season’s first war of words between the two political heavyweights in the race- BJD’s Badri Patra and Odisha Congress president Niranjan Patnaik, had already begun. Today, as polling is underway in the constituency, the OPCC chief stated that […]