Tag: Gopalpur

Cuttack: A notorious criminal was arrested by Commissionerate Police following an encounter at Gopalpur area under Sadar police station in Cuttack on Thursday. The accused, identified as Trilochan Nayak alias Budhia of Sarankul area in Nayagarh district sustained bullet injuries on right leg in the shootout. He has been admitted to SCB Medical College and […]

Bhubaneswar: The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) today ruled out possibility of a cyclone in Odisha due to the well marked low pressure area over southeast Bay of Bengal that concentrated into a depression and lay centered about 1250 km to south-southeast of Gopalpur. However, the IMD predicted heavy rainfall for southern and coastal parts of […]

Balasore:  Protesting unscheduled power cuts, locals along with some traders staged a demonstration in front of NESCO office at Gopalpur under Bahanaga block in Balasore district today. Nearly a hundred activists gheraoed the office and later sat on a dharna demanding a solution to the issue at the earliest. It is alleged that locals have […]

Bhubaneswar/Mumbai: In a major development of the SIM box seizure case in Berhampur, in which four persons were arrested for alleged link-ups with underworld don Chotta Rajan, the Thane Police Crime Branch in Mumbai arrested nine persons on Tuesday. The Thane Crime Branch team had conducted simultaneous raids on 30 locations and had seized 25 […]

Cuttack/Berhampur: The SIM box seized by the Gopalpur police from four persons last week was brought from Hyderabad whereas the SIM cards were collected from different places in the State, informed Crime Branch Special DG BK Sharma today. He further stated a team of Special Task Force (STF) led by an additional SP is interrogating […]

Berhampur: A team of Odisha Crime Branch along with two officials of Mumbai Crime Branch police today started investigation into the seizure of SIM box through which an aide of underworld criminal Chhota Rajan resorted to extortion from Hong Kong. The officials from Mumbai visited Gopalpur Police Station and discussed with the officials who had […]

Berhampur: After nearly a gap of one year, hundreds of dead fish were again seen floating near Gopalpur port in Ganjam district. As per reports of an expert team, poisonous chemical content in the water has led to the deaths, though the source of the chemicals is unknown. Talking to OTV, Marine Technology expert Bijay […]

Jajpur: In a shocking incident, the car of ace sprinter Dutee Chand was set on fire by some unidentified miscreants at Gopalpur village in Jajpur district Sunday night. Informed by the neighbours, Dutee’s family members, reportedly, found the Nano car, which was parked outside their house, damaged on Monday morning. Later, Dutee’s father lodged an […]

Bhubaneswar: Even as World Meteorological Day is being observed today, the Meteorology authorities in Odisha are in a spot of bother with the state’s lone Doppler Weather Radar (DWR) undergoing periodic breakdown. On November 21, 2015, Odisha’s first DWR was commissioned at Paradip, resulting in manifold upgrading of advance weather forecast mechanism. Though the Radar […]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha’s cyclone-prone district Balasore is unlikely to get a Doppler radar station, as the government of India has not decided about the project, according to a government official. M N Rajeevan, secretary, Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) and chairman, Earth System Science Organization (ESSO) informed this to OTV on the sidelines of Tropmet-2016 here […]

Bhubaneswar: Rainfall is likely in some parts of south and north coastal districts of Odisha in the next 24 hours under the influence of Cyclone Vardha which intensified into a very severe cyclonic storm this morning, said the local Met officer in a release here today. According to the release, the cyclonic storm, formed over […]

Bhubaneswar: The local Met office is yet to confirm about the movement of the depression which is formed over south-south-east Bay of Bengal and centred at  310 km  to the southwest of Port Blair. As informed by Mrutyunjay Mohapatra, head of the Cyclonic Warning Centre, to the media today, the depression will move in northwest […]

Berhampur: Tension ran high on premises of special economic zone of Tata Steel in Gopalpur after two groups created a ruckus during a public hearing over construction of SEZ and industrial park near Kanishi block here. According to sources, some locals created ruckus alleging lack of transparency in the public hearing. Besides, they also alleged […]

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government has decided to invest about Rs 2000 crore in IT sector every year from next year. Informing this to the media after attending the interactive session on the first day of the three-day conclave of the National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) in the city here on Saturday, State […]

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government today said the Cyclone Kyant will have no threat to the state. “The Cyclone Kyant will pose no threat to the life and property in Odisha as it will cause sporadic rainfall in some parts of the coastal districts. The situation today is much better for Odisha as compared to yesterday. […]