Bhubaneswar: In yet another bank robbery incident, unidentified miscreants looted Rs 12 lakh from an ATM of the Bank of India at Jatni in Khurda district. Shockingly, the miscreants looted the cash from the ATM located at Taraboi under Jatni police limits late on Monday night by hacking its password. After a written complaint, the […]
Bhubaneswar: Around 200 people have allegedly fallen victim to a major job racket in Khurda district. According to reports, Mega Consultancy Tour and Travels has cheated Rs 30 lakh from various job aspirants by promising them lucrative jobs in the Gulf. The company had set up its office at Mukundaprasad and hatched a plan to […]
Khurda: Even as the NHAI toll plaza at Khurda’s Gangapada has been rendered defunct for the last three years, it poses a threat for commuters traveling on the National Highway 16. But the district administration is yet to take any action to demolish it. Heavy vehicles are the most affected as they have to slow […]
Khurda: Youth killed by a group of miscreants in an attack over past enmity near Badapokharia in Khurda district this morning has erupted tension in the area. The deceased, identified as Chitrasena Jena of Badapokharia village, was attacked near a pond by the miscreants with sharp weapons leading to his death. Besides, the attackers fired […]
Bhubaneswar/Jatni: After the torture story of a Bangladeshi minor boy at Asha Kiran, a new shocking case has come to fore where a minor girl has brought rape allegations against the shelter home. An minor girl inmate of the shelter home girl alleged that she was raped and her foetus was aborted. Khurda police has […]
Bhubaneswar: Still standing tall with a walking stick in one hand and a genuine smile on his face, Antarjyami Pradhan from Angul district is the oldest inmate in a leprosy rehabilitation centre run by Missionaries of Charity sisters at Janla in Khurda district. At even the age of 90, Pradhan remembers the day when he […]
Khurda: Bird flu scare has once again triggered panic in Khurda’s Keranga village with locals spotting several dead crows at many places in the area on Saturday, sources said. As per reports, unusual mortality of crows and some other birds were reported from the village even as the administration had carried out extensive poultry culling […]
Khurda/Puri: A Bangladeshi minor has brought harassment allegations against authorities of ‘Asha Kiran’, a NGO situated at Jatni in Khurda district. The minor boy gave such a statement, after being rescued in Puri, before the Puri Child Welfare Committee (CWC). However, authorities of ‘Asha Kiran’ have denied the allegation. The minor boy, a resident of […]
Khurda: A doctor of Khurda district headquarters hospital who was allegedly abducted by the relatives of an infant who died on Thursday, returned safe after his abductors dropped him off at the bypass road near Batamangala Temple. Sources said, the doctor identified as Pradeep Das is a Paediatrician at the hospital. As per allegations, an […]
Khurda/Sambalpur/Bhadrak: Six persons were killed in at least three separate road accidents at different places in the state on Wednesday. In Khurda, a father-son duo was killed after a bus hit their bike from behind at Siko Bazaar. Aggrieved over the incident, locals staged a protest and later ransacked the Siko police outpost. In a […]
Berhampur: A notorious criminal identified as Jogi Goud was injured in a police encounter at Marda square under Polsara police station in Ganjam district last night. Jogi has sustained bullet injuries on his left leg. He is admitted to the department of Orthopaedic Surgery in MKCG Medical College and Hospital here. A bike, a Mauser […]
Bhubaneswar: The first phase panchayat polls which began in Odisha this morning, witnessed poll boycott in nine Gram Panchayats in eight districts. In Khurda district, villagers of Daruthenga panchayat on the outskirts of Bhubaneswar boycotted the elections demanding shifting of the dump yard. The villagers did not turn up for voting at 13 booths in […]
Angul/Tangi: Panic gripped in Satkosia area of Angul and Tangi in Khurda after two persons including a Forest department staff faced elephant fury at two different places of the State this morning. While a resident of Tuluka village in the Satkosia sanctuary was trampled to death by an elephant, an employee of the Forest Department, […]
Khurda: Locals of Chotipalanga village under Town police station here detained seven dacoits while they were attempting to loot a fish godown late on Thursday night. According to sources, the villagers held the dacoits while they were stealing from a fish godown in the village and locked them inside a room. Later, they informed police […]
Khurda/Rourkela: The Khurda district administration today completed the culling of poultry in Kerang village and has asked the people not to rear poultry in the next three months as a preventive measure against bird flu. “Culling has been concluded in Kerang village. The officials of my department have gone to the village and told the […]