Tag: Mayurbhanj

Bhubaneswar: As many as 280 people including 27 children were killed due to lightning since April this year, official sources said today. Special Relief Commissioner (SRC) B P Sethi said Ganjam and Mayurbhanj districts reported the highest number of 30 deaths each while Sonepur has recorded zero casualty. The deaths due to lightning occurred in […]

Baripada: The family of Bartana village under Rasagobindpur block in Mayurbhanj district has finally broken its silence revealing that it was not witchcraft that forced them to a self-inflicted silence. Revealing the reason behind the family’s vow of silence, the elder son of the family Pradeep Ram said the family lost its entire savings in […]

Mayurbhanj: They say silence is golden. But for this family of Bartana village under Rasagobindpur block of the district, silence is the way of life. Confined to a house, none nearby remembers when anyone in the family last spoke. A special report from OTV revealed that a four-member family comprising Subarna Ram, the mother, daughter […]

Mayurbhanj: A Class-X student of Sarata government high school under Udala block of Mayurbhanj district was allegedly beaten up by a teacher. A written complaint was lodged at the Sarata police station in this connection on Sunday. As per the complaint, when Rengta Marandi, a student of the High School, was sitting under a tree […]

Bhubaneswar: A strong bond, they say, can never be broken with any impediments, whatsoever. It is clearly envisaged from the custom of Raksha Bandhan, where a simple thread promises to keep intact the sacred and strong relationship between a brother and a sister. The festival of Rakhi is celebrated across the country with fervour and […]

Mayurbhanj: A day after a senior police official at Nabarangpur was accused of ‘misutilising his power’, a video of a home guard in civil dress thrashing a man accused of theft here has reportedly gone viral on the social media on Saturday. The home guard in dock has been identified as Upendra Behera. Soon after […]

Baripada: After a wait for around 13 months, a girl child united with her mother in Baripada town of Mayurbhanj district on Thursday. The girl child, a resident of Ward number 17 of Baripada town, had gone missing and a police complaint on it was registered in June 8, 2016. Only after OTV telecast recently […]

Mayurbhanj: Three people were reportedly killed and another was injured after a speeding dumper truck hit two motorcyclists and bicyclist at Hatibandha Chhak in Udala-Baripada road of Mayurbhanj district on Friday. The incident occurred when the driver of dumper lost control after a collision with a tractor and hit three persons. The deceased have been […]

Bhubaneswar: With an aim to uplift the economic condition of tribals as well as provide quality education to them in Odisha while keeping their unique identity intact, the State Cabinet today approved a proposal to set up the Tribal Special Development Council in nine districts. The development council will function in Mayurbhanj, Keonjhar, Sundargarh, Kandhamal, […]

Rairangpur: A day after bodies of two children were found in a forest near Jhipabandha village here in Mayurbhanj district, decomposed body of their mother was traced in the same forest today. Two youths who were detained over suspicion of killing the trio have confessed to the crime before police. The youths admitted that they […]

Bhubaneswar: Bodies of two children, who were missing for the last three days, were recovered from Jhipabandha village under Badampahada in Mayurbhanj district here on Saturday. It is suspected that both the children, identified as Jagannath and Sashank, have been allegedly murdered over suspected witchcraft as their necks have been slit. According to reports, the […]

Udala: On suspicion of being a child abductor, locals tied and thrashed a man in Nabara village under Udala police limits of Mayurbhanj district on Friday night. According to locals, Sailesh Patra was seen offering sweets to a minor girl at around 4 pm yesterday. He was trying to lure her but escaped after seeing […]

Bargarh/Anandpur/Kalinganagar: As many as eight people were killed in separate road mishaps occurred in Bargarh, Keonjhar, Mayurbhanj and Jajpur districts on Tuesday. The first accident took place near Paikamal in Bargarh district after a car fell off a bridge leaving three persons including a woman dead and two others injured. The car lost control after […]

Bhadrak: In a bizarre incident, a doctor of Chandbali Community Health Centre allegedly thrashed a woman admitted for delivery on Wednesday. The woman, identified as Subhalaxmi Behera of Nalgohira village, was admitted to the hospital for delivery on Wednesday noon. On Thursday, she was transferred to the delivery room after she complained of labour pain. […]

Cuttack/Baripada: After Niali, Bhanjanagar and Jagatsinghpur, Athagarh of Cuttack and Betanati of Mayurbhanj district are now in the grip of panic due to the alleged mysterious animal that has killed at least eight sheep and left six others injured on Tuesday night. The unidentified animal strayed into Panchaggan village under Tigiria block near Athagarh and […]