Tag: Malkangiri

Malkangiri/ Ganjam: Four persons went missing while one fisherman was rescued in a critical condition in two separate incidents of boat capsize in Malkangiri and Ganjam districts today. Four persons including three women and a minor went missing after a boat they were onboard capsized in Barlabandh canal under Nakamamudi panchayat of Malkangiri district on […]

A pregnant woman from Bidarpakhana village under Paparmetla block in the district had to be carried on cot to hospital after her family members failed to contact an ambulance in Malkangiri district on Saturday. The woman, identified as the wife of Arjun Khara of Bidarpakhana village, developed labour pain yesterday evening.

Malkangiri: A pregnant woman was carried in a sling for nearly three kilometres after ambulance failed to reach her due to lack of proper road connectivity to Dutelguda village under Korukonda block here today. According to reports, one Parbati Khila of the village developed labour pain in the morning. Though the family members had called […]

Though there was peaceful repolling in 15 booths in Maoist-hit Chitrakonda Assembly seat in Malkangiri district on Thursday, no votes were cast in eight polling stations mostly due to fear, official sources said

Polling personnel will be sent by two helicopters for 15 polling stations in the Chitrakonda assembly seat in Malkangiri district where fresh elections will be held tomorrow after Maoists disrupted voting on April 10, officials said

Malkangiri: A group of BSF personnel had a narrow escape when two explosive devices planted by Maoists went off in Kalimela area of Malkangiri district on Sunday. The explosions took place within a short interval when the BSF personnel had gone to the area near MPV-31 village to remove posters and banners put up by […]

Alleging unlawful detention of staff of two buses by the police, private bus operators in Maoist-prone Malkangiri, Koraput and Nabarangpur districts of Odisha resorted to an indefinite strike and kept their vehicles off the roads on Sunday

Normal life was disrupted during a dawn-to-dusk bandh called by Congress in Maoist-hit Malkangiri district on Monday in protest against alleged atrocity by security forces on tribal people

Maoists gunned down two persons suspecting them as police informers in Malkangiri district, police said on Monday

Four migrant labourers, including three minor girls, were rescued from Andhra Pradesh's Malkonda area by an NGO and brought back here on Friday

The body of tribal villager who was kidnapped by Maoists from a remote village in Malkangiri district was found on Wednesday

Gastroenteritis has claimed three siblings and affected more than fifty children in Malkangiri district in the past two days, a government official said here on Monday

The 65th Republic Day was celebrated across Odisha with gaiety and enthusiasm on Sunday amidst tightened security in view of a boycott call by Maoists

Let us not get distracted by the ugly and shameful tug of war among the three major political parties to corner – and deny – credit for the inordinately delayed Gurupriya bridge. Instead, we should all rejoice that a historical wrong has been righted and the people who sacrificed everything to light up our houses […]

By Sandeep Sahu It is no secret that politicians are held in extremely low esteem by most people in the country. And Monday provided yet another instance – if one was needed at all – why they are such a despised lot. The occasion was Union Petroleum minister Dharmendra Pradhan’s visit to Malkangiri, which has […]