Tag: Madhya Pradesh

Angul: Amid tension over the alleged killing of a woman by newly relocated tigress ‘Sundari’ in Satkosia Tiger Reserve, a team of officials from Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) and Wildlife Institute of India (WII) conducted a review of movement of the tigress and its habitation in Athagarh forest division today. The officials visited Hatibari […]

Angul: Residents of Satkosia are living in fear after the Royal Bengal tigress brought from Madhya Pradesh’s Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve was released into the Tiger Reserve. While some residents of Katrang and Satyajaipur villages have stopped going to their farm lands, many are guarding their houses with sticks and axes. Some of the villagers are […]

Angul: Sundari, the Royal Bengal tigress brought from Madhya Pradesh’s Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve was released into Satkosia Tiger Reserve (STR). Sundari was kept inside a closed and protected enclosure and was released into the wild in presence of Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (PCCF), Additional PCCF and other officials of Forest department yesterday. On July […]

Bhopal: The Congress party won 114 seats in Madhya Pradesh but fell short of the majority mark of 116 after counting for legislative assembly elections concluded today. While the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won 109 seats, Bahujan Samaj Party won 2 seats, Samajwadi Party won one seat and Independents got four seats. In a […]

Angul/Boudh: Allaying apprehensions, the Royal Bengal Tiger, which was relocated from Kanha Reserve Forest in Madhya Pradesh to Satkosia sanctuary two days back, showed normal behaviour by making its first kill today. Authorities of the Satkosia sanctuary were relieved after watching normal behaviour of the tiger which fed on a wild boar. Authorities, who are […]

Bhubaneswar: The Satkosia Tiger Reserve in Angul will receive six tigers from Madhya Pradesh once there is an improvement in the weather conditions, Chief Wildlife Warden, Sandeep Tripathy informed today. Speaking to media, Tripathy said six tigers aged below 3 years have already been identified at the Kanha National Tiger Reserve in the neighbouring State. […]

Bhubaneswar: Four Odia pilgrims died after a bus they were travelling in overturned near Katni in Madhya Pradesh today. The four Odias had come from Brajrajnagar area of Jharsuguda district to perform last rites in Gaya. According to sources, a bus carrying 25 pilgrims, including the four Odias, was returning to Bilaspur. It turned turtle […]

Bhubaneswar: Taking a leaf out of the Madhya Pradesh government’s plantation measures along the Narmada river, the Odisha government has decided to spend Rs 200 crore in the first phase for plantation on both sides of Mahanadi river and tributaries Ib and Tel. This would help in conservation and ground water recharge. A high-level meeting […]

Bhubaneswar: ATM hacker Syed Qureshi, who is involved in various ATM thefts across Odisha and Madhya Pradesh, will be brought on transit remand by Commissionerate Police. Qureshi is a resident of Mumbai and from there he carried out the ATM thefts. The cyber cell of Madhya Pradesh police had nabbed him recently. Gangs involved in […]

Bhubaneswar: Rail passengers had a tough time at the railway station here as activists of the Congress youth wing staged a rail roko today  protesting killing of five farmers in Madhya Pradesh. The youth activists halted the Falaknuma Express and Bhubaneswar-Bhadrak-Berhampur passenger train at the railway station. Holding party flags and shouting slogans, the activists […]

Bhubaneswar: Senior BJP leader Bijay Mohapatra today claimed that the Negotiation Committee formed by the Water Resources Ministry cannot resolve the ongoing Mahanadi row between Odisha and Chhattisgarh. “There was no need for the Water Resources ministry to form the Negotiation Committee. A far as I know, the decision to be taken by the Committee […]

Nilagiri: Prince of erstwhile Nilgiri princely state Janmejay Harichandan will tie the knot with the granddaughter of Kothi princely state king Raja Bahadur Govind Pratap Singh on January 22. The ‘Tilak Utsav’ or engagement ceremony was held in a traditional way on December 9 at the Nilgiri royal palace in presence of the Kothi prince, […]

Bhubaneswar: Red alert sounded in Odisha and Madhya Pradesh after eight terrorists of banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) fled from the Bhopal Central Jail after killing a guard in the midnight on Sunday. Sources said four out of the eight terrorists had been arrested from Rourkela in sedition case in February this year. […]

Bhubaneswar: Heavy rains will lash most parts of interior Odisha in the next 24 hours as the low pressure has moved to Madhya Pradesh, the local Met office said today. In a release this afternoon, the Met office has said the low pressure, which had centred over north Odisha and adjoining Jharkhand, has now moved […]

The anti-terrorist squad (ATS) of Madhya Pradesh police on Thursday took Mohammad Salek, one of the five terrorists of Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) recently arrested from here, on a 15-day remand