Tag: Keonjhar

Keonjhar: The National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) has decided not to shift the location of the proposed bridge over Kusei river on National Highway No 215 at Belabahali village in Anandpur block of Keonjhar district.

Police is on the lookout for two miscreants, who looted cash worth Rs 6 lakh from a beer parlour staff at Dhangarapada on the outskirts of Keonjhar town this afternoon

Anandpur: Tension ran high at the Anandpur sub-divisional hospital in Keonjhar district this morning following the death of a new born baby.

Keonjhar: Vigilance officials of Keonjhar district unit today arrested Dipak Kumar Sahu, executive engineer of Nesco, while he was accepting a bribe from a local contractor at his office in Joda.

The Council of Higher Secondary Education (CHSE) on Sunday asked the authorities of the Dharanidhara (DD) Autonomous College here to send back the Plus Two papers unchecked after a short circuit disrupted the evaluation of the papers

On a day when the district administration was razing the construction and boundary walls on government land allegedly encroached by him, Champua MLA Santana Mahakud was the talk of the town on Friday for an altogether different reason. The elaborate arrangements, complete with air coolers and fans, he had put in place inside his den to keep his large flock of cattle and foreign breed dogs cool in the scorching summer, caused considerable amusement among onlookers

Barbil: Acting on the directive of Orissa High Court, the Keonjhar district administration today demolished construction done by Champua MLA Sanatan Mahakud on five acres of encroached land at Uchabali mouza under Barbil tehsil in Keonjhar district in the presence of additional district magistrate (ADM) and sub-collector. Twenty five platoons of forces were deployed at […]

Champua (Keonjhar): Acting on the directive of the Odisha High Court, the Keonjhar district administration and the police is all set to launch an eviction drive to free the government land encroached by Champua MLA Sanatan Mahakud on April 22. Informing this to the media in Wednesday, Keonjhar SP Kavita Jalan said the Odisha High […]

Anadapur: In a daring robbery, 10 dacoits looted Rs 5 lakh in cash and 100 grams of gold jewellery at gun point in Belabahali village under Ghasipura police limits in Keonjhar district late on Wednesday night. According to sources, the group of dacoits entered Uchhaba Sahu’s house breaking the gate at around 1:30 am. They […]

Keonjhar: In a shocking incident, a woman died after giving birth to an infant boy at the district headquarters hospital here due to shortage of blood in the blood bank. The deceased has been identified as Bharati Dehuri, wife of Sarat Dehuri of Urumunda village under Bansapala block in the district. According to sources, Bharati […]

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/Keonjhar: With the ‘108’ ambulance employees’ strike entering the third day today, a woman gave birth to a baby on the way to hospital in the absence of the emergency service vehicle in the district yesterday. The pregnant woman, a resident of Kotpada village under Anandpur police limits in Keonjhar, complained of labour pain following […]

Police on Saturday detained a suspect in connection with the spine chilling murder of a six-year-old boy whose body was found from a pond in Khuntapasi village under Harichandanpur police station limits in Odisha’s Keonjhar district on Friday night. The man was detained on the basis of a complaint lodged by family members of the deceased

In response to the written submission of 10 councillors seeking a no-confidence motion against the vice chairperson of Anandpur Notified Area Council (NAC), the Keonjhar district collector has asked the Anandpur sub-collector to conduct the no-confidence motion after a thorough probe into the matter

Keonjhar: Forest officials on Wednesday recovered the carcass of a tusker from Atei reserve forest near Kulimati village under Ghatagaon forest range in the district. Villagers found the pachyderm lying dead in the forest and informed forest officials about it who, in turn, rushed to the spot and started an investigation into the death of […]