Tag: Malkangiri

Bhubaneswar: The State Health department is on tenterhooks after the death toll due to Japanese Encephalitis (JE) reached 16 in Malkangiri on Tuesday. Reports said, a five year old boy breathed his last at the district headquarters hospital (DHH) after battling for life for eight days. DHH sources said, around 31 children are currently undergoing […]

Bhubaneswar: The State government on Monday sent an expert team to Malkangiri district after 15 children died due to suspected Japanese Encephalitis (JE) in the past 20 days in the district. While around 30 infants are currently undergoing treatment at the district headquarters hospital (DHH), condition of half of them is stated to be critical. […]

Bhubaneswar: Intensifying its protest against the ongoing construction of Polavaram multi-purpose dam in Andhra Pradesh, the ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) today staged demonstrations in seven districts in Odisha. The demonstrations were staged in front of the collectorate in Malkangiri, Koraput, Rayagada, Nabarangpur, Ganjam, Gajapati and Kandhamal districts. While former MLA and minister Rabi Narayan […]

Malkangiri: A two-month-old baby boy of Chitrangapalli village in Malkangiri district was rushed to the district headquarters hospital today after being branded with hot iron by a village quack. According to reports, the parents, suspecting stomach pain of their child, consulted a village quack today. The quack applied iron branding on the tummy of the […]

Bhubaneswar: Construction of the Gurupriya bridge in the cut-off areas of Chitrakonda in Malkangiri district will be completed by June next year, chief secretary Aditya Prasad Padhi said today. “The construction work of the bridge is in full swing to ensure its timely completion”, he told media persons after presiding over the Unified Command meeting […]

Malkangiri: An under trial prisoner of Malkangiri sub jail died following cardiac arrest on Sunday morning while undergoing treatment at hospital. The deceased has been identified as Krishna Goldar, a resident of MV-72. According to sources, Goldar was rushed to Malkangiri district headquarters hospital in the morning today after he felt pain in his chest. […]

With the bending of four pillars of the Gurupriya bridge in the cut-off area of Chitrakonda in Malkangiri district, the construction pattern of the bridge has been redesigned

In yet another act of callousness, a 108 ambulance allegedly left a seven-year-old girl midway to the Malkangiri district hospital after the child died near Nayakguda today

Malkangiri: Taking note that the developmental works in the remote and cut-off areas in Odisha have come to a standstill due to active presence of the Maoists, the state government has decided to intensify anti-Maoist operations. As parts of the strategy of the state government, DIG, south-western range S Saini today took stock of the […]

Malkangiri: Vigilance sleuths arrested the executive engineer of the Rural Development (RD) department in Malkangiri today. The officials conducted a raid at Mathili and seized Rs 7.5 lakh in cash from the car. The officials detained executive engineer Ranesh Chandra Jaal and a contractor from the car. Vigilance is investigating the source of the huge […]

Malkangiri: Six school students and a woman were injured in a road accident near MV-126 village under Kalimela police limits in Malkangiri district this morning. Reports said an auto-rickshaw was on its way to a school carrying six students and a woman when the driver lost control of the vehicle on a ghat road near […]

Malkangiri: Two home guards in Malkangiri district died allegedly after consuming poisonous liquor on Wednesday night. The deceased duo, identified as Bisnu Majhi and Raghu Pujari, was working at the Gobindapali police outpost. While on duty at the outpost on Wednesday night, they complained of stomach ache and were admitted to the Malkangiri District Headquarters […]

Malkangiri: Former top police officers of Odisha today said the release of video footage of an encounter between security personnel and Maoists on July 12, 2009 in Rajnandangaon forest in Chhattisagarh bordering Malkangiri district that left 29 police personnel dead on social media exposes the weakening of the ultras. Terming the release of the video […]

Balasore: Surendra Nath Nayak, the inspector-in-charge (IIC) of Remuna police station in the district, who has been accused of ransacking the house of a tribal in faraway Malakangiri in his search for an elusive Hanuman coin, fled from the district headquarters hospital here on Tuesday. The matter came to light after the hospital authorities filed […]

Bhubaneswar: With the 70th Independence Day just a few hours away, arrangements for celebration of the day have reached final stages in the state. Security arrangements have been stepped up in the Maoist-prone districts of Koraput, Rayagada and Malkangiri. According to sources, security arrangements have been beefed up at the three entrances to Koraput district. […]