Tag: Jajpur

Jajpur: Hundreds of farmers under the aegis of ‘Naba Nirman Krushak Sanghathan’, an outfit fighting for the cause of farmers, today assembled here at the office of Collector demanding their long- standing demand- price, pension and prestige, for which they have been struggling for last six years. Named the rally as ‘Jay Kishan”, they demanded […]

Jajpur: Barely within a month of Dana Majhi carrying his wife’s body on shoulders from Kalahandi hospital due to denial of a hearse van to him, family members of a tribal woman, who died at the Jajpur District Headquarters hospital while undergoing treatment, took the body in a trolley-rickshaw to her village due to unavailability […]

Jajpur: The Biju Janata Dal (BJD) received a sigh of relief as it retained the post of Vyasanagar Municipality chairperson after the no-confidence motion against the civic body chief was rejected today in absence of required number of councillors. “A 2/3 majority of the 26-member civic body was required for voting as per the guidelines. […]

Jajpur: Voting on the no-confidence motion brought against the Vyasanagar Municipality chairperson will be held today. The BJD councillors have been asked to refrain from voting. The party yesterday issued a whip in this regard. BJD general secretary Debi Prasad Mishra yesterday convened a press meet in presence of Korei MLA Akash Das Nayak and […]

Jajpur: A junior engineer of Panikoili Rural development department in the district was arrested for allegedly abetting a woman RI’s suicide, police said today. Police said accused Madhusudan Das had developed love affairs with former Revenue Inspector Subhasmita Sahu of Tulati circle. The engineer trapped the RI in love claiming him as a bachelor. When […]

Jajpur: Police arrested a person for impersonating the Additional District Magistrate (ADM) of Cuttack district and his aide for impersonating as the personal assistant (PA) to the fake ADM in Jajpur district today. One Debashis Das, claiming to be the ADM of Cuttack district, reached the Jakhapura police station in a car flashing a red […]

Bhubaneswar: The National Commission for Scheduled Tribes (NCST) has expressed satisfaction with the follow-up action taken by the Odisha government on the death of five innocent residents of Gumudumaha village in Kandhamal district, who were killed during a purported anti-Maoist operation in Malapanga forest on July 8 night. “In its report, the NCST had observed […]

Police is on the lookout for a man and his son, who had allegedly chopped off both hands of a youth at Rahamba village under Kuakhia police limits in Jajpur district late on Wednesday night

Jajpur/Bhubaneswar: A two-member team from National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR), which was scheduled to visit Nagada village where 19 children died of malnutrition in the last three months, had to return midway due to inclement weather and inaccessible road today. The team returned to Bhubaneswar after visiting some slums at Ashokjhar and […]

Kalinganagar: Tata Steel observed the International Day of the World’s Indigenous People at Kalinganagar in Jajpur district today. Addressing a function organized at Sukinda Government College to mark the day, chief guest Parmanand Patel, an expert on tribal languages, said “We must understand that whatever development we have achieved, there has been contribution of tribal […]

Jajpur: A five-member team of the Union Health Ministry visited Nagada village in Jajpur district today to take stock of the situation there following the death of 18 children due to malnutrition in the last three months. According to sources, the team is being accompanied by the collector of Jajpur district. Upon their arrival in […]

Bhubaneswar: A five-member team of the Union Health Ministry will visit Nagada village in Jajpur district tomorrow to take stock of the situation there following death of 18 children due to malnutrition in the last three months. According to sources, the team is scheduled to hold discussions with the concerned authorities of the State government […]

Bhubaneswar: Even as a five-member team of Union Health Ministry is visiting Nagada village in Jajpur district, made infamous in the recent past for the death of 18 children due to malnutrition in the last three months, tomorrow, the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has asked the State government to submit a […]

Embarrassed by the revelation about the sorry state of affairs in Nagada village in Jajpur district, the Odisha government has decided to provide road connectivity to remote and inaccessible villages in the state

Bhubaneswar/Cuttack: In the wake of the death of 18 children due to malnourishment in Nagada village of Jajpur district in the last three months, the Odisha government has decided to set up two mini Anganwadi centres in the village. A decision to this effect was taken at a review meeting presided over by Woman and […]