Tag: Nabarangpur

Bhubaneswar: BJD MP Balabhadra Majhi today shot a letter to Niti Aayog Vice-Chairman Rajiv Kumar urging him to include Nabarangpur district in the list of Aspirational Districts. In the letter, Majhi mentioned of Nabarangpur being the most backward Parliamentary Constituency in India where 55% of total population is Scheduled Tribe, 15% is Scheduled Caste and […]

Nabarangpur: Police have detained two persons in connection with the attack on a junior engineer and his colleagues of the Southco in Bikrampur village of Nabarangpur district on Thursday. Police sources said the arrested persons are being interrogated over the incident. “The junior engineer and other staff had gone to the village to collect dues when […]

Nabarangpur: Dogs can be more than just best friends of human beings. Ramraman Panda of Nabarangpur district proved it by performing the last rites of Chandu, his pet dog, who was indeed a part of his family. Ramraman had brought Chandu – a Doberman – into his house when it was 17 days old and […]

Nabarangpur:  Mystery shrouds the death of a woman and her eight-month-old daughter whose charred bodies were recovered from their house at Chirima village in Nabarangpur district on Thursday. Though it is still unclear whether it is a case of suicide or murder, police have detained the deceased woman’s husband Tankadhar Bhatra in connection with the […]

Nabarangpur: In a shocking incident, a class 7 school girl was forced to marry a minor boy who allegedly raped and impregnated her in Raigarh block of Nabarangpur district. As per sources, the minor girl was a student of a Khuduku Sevashram school. During summer holidays, she went to her house at Kukurtofa Village in […]

Nabarangpur: Emergency health care services were badly affected as 108 ambulance drivers resorted to cease-work protesting termination of some employees in Nabarangpur on Thursday. As per sources, nearly 18 drivers of the district were terminated from their jobs while the employees termed such move as ‘arbitrary’. The employees also alleged that their salaries were held […]

Bhubaneswar: BJD’s plan to attract young voters with the ‘Yuva-Chhatra Jana Sampark Abhiyan’ programme has hit a roadblock due to internal squabble. The programme, which was initially launched in Nabarangpur and Koraput districts in September, was suspended abruptly after some activists raised objections about the way the programme was conducted, said sources. The party’s district […]

Nabarangpur: The driver of a fire tender was killed while three other firefighters have been injured in a road mishap on state highway no 39 near Jamrunda. The deceased has been identified as Purna Chandra Jani. According to reports, nearly four personnel of the Odisha Fire Services were returning after attending an emergency call at […]

Nabarangpur/Malkangiri: After struggling hard to protect their crops from natural calamities, pests and unseasonal rain, the farmers in Nabarangpur and Malkangiri are allegedly being exploited by the millers who purchased their hard earned paddy by slashing five to seven kgs per quintal. Due to inordinate delay in procurement at Mandis, they have no alternative rather […]

Nabarangpur: Corn farmers in the district have been a worried lot due to distress sale of their agricultural produce as government-operated market yards have not yet started procurement. They have been forced to sell corn at throwaway prices to traders after corn stocks started germinating. Dharmendra Mohapatra, a corn farmer, said, “Though in the Regulated […]

Nabarangpur: In a ghastly incident, unidentified criminals today hacked a contractor to death at his residence at RK Colony here in Nabarangpur. According to sources, the deceased contractor, identified as Pradeep Agrawal, was in his house when three unknown persons entered and started talking to him. Pradeep then reportedly ordered tea and was chatting with […]

Bhubaneswar: Questions are being raised over the effectiveness of newly formed Tribal Development Councils in nine districts of the State as modalities are yet to be prepared by the State government. Though provision has been made for allocation of Rs 1.5 crore annually for the councils for 112 blocks under the nine tribal dominated districts- […]

Nabarangpur: After months of complaints fell on deaf ears, the Congress activists of Nabarangpur district on Saturday staged an agitation and blocked roads demanding sanitation and resolving the garbage dumping issue in the area. They also went on to dump garbage of the town right outside the collector’s office. Alleging negligence by officials concerned, the […]

Nabarangpur: In a glaring example of blind faith, a teenage girl who is living as a recluse inside a forest in Nabarangpur for reasons unknown is drawing large number of people who believe her to be possessed by some divine spirit. Dali Mahali, 15-year old daughter of Jagat Mahali of Dhanasuli village in Tumbarla Panchayat […]

Umerkote: Another infant fell prey to the superstitious practice of hot iron branding at Phupugan village under Nandahandi Block in Nabarangpur district on Friday. The seven-month-old girl was branded with hot iron by her mother to cure her from stomach ailments. She was later admitted to Indravati Project Hospital as her condition deteriorated. She is […]