Tag: Kolkata

Bhubaneswar: Riding on a second half goal by Nigerian striker Omegbemi Dudu, Kolkata-based I-League club East Bengal defeated ISL club FC Goa by 1-0 goals to sail into the finals of Super Cup Football Tournament played at Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar, Odisha. East Bengal attacked continuously at the Goan goalpost and got numerous chances to […]

The Employees’ State Insurance Corporation (ESIC), New Delhi has invited applications for faculty positions at its two medical colleges. Online applications have been invited for posts of Professor, Associate Professor and Assistant Professor for ESIC PGIMSR and Medical College, Joka, Kolkata and ESIC Medical Colleges, Sanathnagar, Hyderabad. ESIC PGIMSR & Medical College, Joka, Kolkata: Name […]

Bhubaneswar: Hope of justice has finally come alive for Pramodini Roul as Odisha Police have managed to arrest two persons including the prime accused Santosh Bedanta in connection with the 2009 acid attack case. Santosh, an Indian Army Jawan posted at Kupwara in Jammu and Kashmir, was arrested by a special team of Jagatsinghpur police […]

Bhubaneswar: Inclement weather condition due to heavy rains accompanied by gusty winds in West Bengal forced six Kolkata bound Indigo flights to make emergency landing at Bhubaneswar. Some other flights have also been diverted to Guwahati and other airports in the region, sources said. Several other Bhubaneswar bound flights were also delayed as these were […]

Kolkata: Their tails up after overcoming initial jolts to pull off an emphatic victory in the series opener against Australia, India would look to retain the momentum in the second One-Day International on Thursday despite the leaden eyed skies threatening to play spoilsport here at the Eden Gardens. India were down in the dumps at […]

Puri: Five persons accused of attempted murder in Kolkata were nabbed from a hotel at Marine Drive Road in Baliapanda of Puri on Saturday. The accused were absconding since August 22 after an attempted murder of Ahmed Pervez, an established businessman in Kolkata. Beniapukar station police from Kolkata in West Bengal traced them to Puri […]

Bhubaneswar: Bhubaneswar bound Indigo flight 6E-6512 was diverted to Kolkata as it failed to land at the Biju Pattnaik International Airport due to rough weather here on Wednesday. The Indigo flight from Delhi carrying 180 passengers  took off from the national capital at 6: 25 pm. It was scheduled to land at Bhubaneswar airport at […]

Bhubaneswar: Air India announced new flight services connecting Kolkata, Bhubaneswar and Hyderabad today. The to and fro flights will commence services from June 10. The Air India flight AI-779 will fly between Kolkata and Hyderabad via Bhubaneswar. The flight will begin at 9.05 am from Kolkata and reach Bhubaneswar at 10.20 am. It will again […]

Hinjili (Ganjam): Youth abducted from Hinjili on March 29 was rescued by the local police team from Kolkata and two persons were held for their involvement in the kidnapping case. After tracking mobile phones and examining the call records, the police team managed to trace the abducted youth, Pratap Kumar Patnaik, from a locality in […]

Bhubaneswar: The Mumbai Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) has begun its probe to trace 27 tourists who obtained passports from Bhubaneswar and went missing in Saudi Arabia. According to sources, the Odisha CID, Crime Branch and Intelligence Wing have sought information from the regional passport office in Bhubaneswar after receiving information from the Mumbai ATS. The regional […]

Bhubaneswar: A Special Court for CBI cases granted the investigation agency an additional three days’ custody of Odisha-based tainted chit fund company Green Ray International Ltd (GRIL)’s Managing Director (MD) Mir Shahruddin here on Friday. The CBI had produced him in the court and demanded an extension of another six days remand for further interrogations […]

Bhubaneswar: The CBI on Monday interrogated the family members of Mir Shahiruddin, director of Green Ray International Ltd in connection with chit fun scam in Odisha and outside the state. The officials of the central investigating agency interrogated Shahiruddin’s father, mother, sister, three wives and the father-in-law and to know as to how the Green […]

Bhubaneswar: The Special CBI court today granted the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to take Green Ray International director Mir Shahiruddin on a six-day remand for interrogation in connection with a ponzi scam in Odisha as well as outside the State. After Shahiruddin was produced before the special court in Bhubaneswar by the CBI, he […]

Bolangir: More than two-and-half-month after a sensational loot of cash to the tune of Rs 80 lakh from different bank ATM counters, the Bolangir Town Police  has finally managed to nab the prime accused from Kolkata. Police have also seized cash worth Rs 26,46,700 and 10 SIM cards from the possession of the accused who […]

Cuttack: The Commissionerate Police today busted an online fraud racket and five members including two staff of BSNL. Talking to the media, DCP Sanjeev Arora said police had received a report on cyber crime in Markat Nagar area in which someone had managed to hack the username and password of an account and withdrew Rs […]