Tag: Odisha News

Arpita’s family suspected foul play and held the school authorities responsible for her death. They filed a complaint at Kasia Marine Police Station alleging that she might have been killed.

Putting an end to all speculation, Odisha BJP Chief Manmohan Samal told media persons that the party will not enter into any alliance in the State. He mentioned this after returning from the election management committee meeting in Delhi.

As per reports, the missing engineer has been identified as Bishnu Singh. His brother Satendra Pratap Singh said that the last time Bishnu spoke to the family member over the phone was after reaching the Bhubaneswar Railway station on Friday. He was supposed to return home on a Delhi flight on Friday. 

A local court in Odisha's Keonjhar district on Friday sentenced a 22-year-old youth and his father to undergo 25 and 20 years rigorous imprisonment, respectively, for sexually assaulting a minor girl.

The tourist has been identified as Anthony Van Arkel. Rendered penniless by the theft, he has been staying at the Niladri Nilay shelter since then.

The aide has been identified as Amir Ali. He was arrested from the Sector-3 area of Rourkela, informed Rourkela SP Mitrabhanu Mohapatra. The SP said that a Central team arrested Amir Ali on Wednesday night from Rourkela. 

As per reports, police seized nearly 1kg of gold and silver ornaments and cash of Rs 3.20 lakh from them. Police said the accused are involved in several loot cases at different places in Bhubaneswar. After loot, the accused used to flee to Chhattisgarh or Mumbai where they enjoyed a lavish life by spending the booties.   

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be coming to Odisha in the first week of March, informed BJP's co-in-charge for Odisha, Lata Usendi on Thursday.

As per sources, the PM is likely to address a public meeting in Jajpur's Chandikhol and lay the foundation stone of several developmental projects.

As per reports, the bus was en route to Bhadrak from Sambalpur when it collided head-on with a truck coming from the opposite direction on National Highway 53.

Emerging from the ED office after eight hours of interrogation, the BJD MLA told the media that he had been fully cooperating with the ED officials in the investigation. 

In a heartwarming gesture of going beyond the call of duty, a driver and another staffer of an ambulance on Tuesday, carried a pregnant woman for 3 kilometers after the vehicle failed to reach her village due to absence of a motorable road.

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates on Wednesday reviewed many programmes undertaken in the capital city in collaboration with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

It has been alleged that the pots found during excavation of the site did not concern the officials who shifted the soil to another place. Reportedly, construction of Sri Jagannath Reception Centre (SJRC) and Raghunandan Library is underway near the age-old and now razed, Emar Mutt.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his radio programme 'Mann Ki Baat' on Sunday lauded the efforts of a couple from Odisha for working with farmers.