Mayurbhanj: Being a mother to children with special needs means being a caregiver for entire lifetime and expecting nothing in return. Meet this mother from Siripur village in Mayurbhanj district who is tirelessly working round the clock providing unconditional love to her two ailing disabled sons. 60-year-old Bhagabati Sahoo is the only support for her […]
Mayurbhanj: In absence of a roof over her head, a tribal woman in Sukruli block of Mayurbhanj disrict reportedly delivered a baby inside a culvert. As per sources, the house of the woman was destroyed six months back by a herd of elephants. However, without any support from the district administration, she had taken shelter […]
Mayurbhanj: Normal life has been disrupted at various places in Mayurbhanj district today with Kudumi Sena activists observing a six-hour bandh from 6 am to 12 noon demanding Scheduled Tribe(ST) status for Kudumi community. The protestors staged a road blockade on National Highway 18 and 49 in the district affecting vehicular movement in the area. […]
Bhubaneswar: Snake bites have led to more than 1,700 deaths in Odisha in the last three years, data furnished by the State government revealed. Interestingly, the state government has categorized snake bites as a ‘state specific disaster,’ but such alarming rate of fatalities has raised concerns. According to a state government report, while 4,689 people […]
Bhubaneswar: The Deputy Special Relief Commissioner (SRC) today informed that 3 people have been killed in unseasonal rain in Balasore, Bargarh and Mayurbhanj districts. While two persons were killed after tree branches fell on them in Balasore and Bargarh districts during rain, another person was killed in wall collapse in Mayurbhanj district. “Major damages to […]
Rajgangpur/Baripada: One person was killed and seven members of a family injured in separate incidents of lightning strike during a Nor’wester in the State on Monday. As per reports, the deceased has been identified as Sido Hansdah, a resident of Ghumala village in Mayurbhanj district. The mishap occurred when he was returning home after finishing […]
Mayurbhanj/Bhubaneswar: Union Minister Dharemendra Pradhan will launch the Rashtriya Gram Swaraj Abhiyan scheme in the State from Haripur in Badasahi of Mayurbhanj district today. Under the scheme, the Centre has targeted to identify 400 neglected villages of the State and extend benefits of seven central schemes to every household of the villages. On the other […]
Mayurbhanj: The Amarda airstrip in Mayurbhant district, which was built during the World War II, is now crying for urgent measures for its revival. Built by the Royal Air Force (RAF) of the British government with an investment of Rs 3 crore on an area of 900 acres, the airstrip and its runway is lying […]
Mayurbhanj: An elderly woman was trampled to death by a wild elephant near Pithabata range at Baripada in Mayurbhanj district on Wednesday. The incident took place this morning when the deceased, identified as Nirmala Mohanta of Ahari village, had gone to the forest to pick firewood. When Nirmala did not return home, her family launched […]
Baripada: Pregnant women admitted to Pandit Raghunath Murmu Medical College here in Mayurbhanj district for delivery had a harrowing time as they were asked to move to other nearby hospitals after being taken to the operation theatre(OT) for C Section delivery. The reason the hospital authorities cited was some technical glitch in the autoclave machine […]
Mayurbhanj: Unidentified miscreants today shot dead a ‘Gaon Sathi’ at Suleipat village near Badampahar of the district. The deceased has been identified as Jyotindranath Giri. According to reports, some youths reached Giri’s house and asked him to accompany them to the nearby Suleipat dam. Later, his bullet-ridden body was recovered from the spot. Although the […]
Baripada: Protesting non-arrival of ambulance and fire brigade, locals of Kainphulia village carried body of a youth, who reportedly died after drowning, to Collector’s office on a cot here on Sunday. The deceased youth, Arjun Singh had drowned while taking bath in a dam. As Arjun’s condition was critical, locals had called up the 108 […]
Baripada: Protesting repeated harassment by authorities, nearly 100 students of SSD School, Shyamakhunta walked for 15 kms to meet Mayurbhanj Collector seeking his intervention for resolving several grievances. According to reports, students of Class V to Class X decided to lodge complaint against several irregularities and harassment by school authorities to the Collector as their […]
Mayurbhanj: A major fire has erupted in the Similipal Tiger Reserve under the Pithabata forest range of Mayurbhanj district engulfing vast areas affecting the endangered flora and fauna. The intensity of fire is so high that it has spread to peripheries making life difficult for the villagers living on the foothills of the mountain range […]
Bhubaneswar: An upper primary school at Rasagovindpur block in Mayurbhanj district has earned global recognition for adopting interactive methods of teaching. Rajesh Pradhan, block education officer of Rasgovindpur block had recently received the Commonwealth Education Good Practice Award 2018 on behalf of the school at Nadi in Fiji . The students at the school are being […]
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