Tag: Odisha News

Look at these people queuing outside the hospital. They are waiting here to avail medicine of tuberculosis. However, they have to leave the hospital premises dejected due to unavailability and shortage of TB medicine.

In an attempt to facilitate poor patients avail advanced medical technology, liver transplantation process has commenced at the SCB Medical College and Hospital (SCB MCH) in Cuttack. After almost a decade long wait, complex treatment process has been facilitated for the first time in the State at the SCB.

At the age of 98, when mostly people are either bedridden or are confined to one place, Mohan Behera from Sunabeda has justified that ‘age is just a number’. Still hale and hearty, he is running his 60-year-old cycle repairing shop with the same vigour.

The people of the village want to stay with Odisha. According to them, they were deprived of the benefits of the Central schemes after the Odisha government stopped collecting land revenue in 1990.

Mohan’s punctuality, sincerity and passion for his work have inspired many people in the locality. 

Though the mango farmers had used a lot of pesticides as per the instructions of officials of the concerned department, it has failed to resolve their issues.

Sheldon was found in an inebriated condition on Puri beach earlier during the day. Some locals said Marine Police rescued Sheldon and took him to the police station. Later, his family members, who are staying at an ashram in Puri, took him after submitting an undertaking at the police station.

Soon after quitting the BJD, Mishra joined BJP at the party headquarter in Bhubaneswar in presence of BJP’s Odisha Election In-Charge Vijaypal Singh Tomar, State party president Manmohan Samal and Bhubaneswar MP Aparajita Sarangi.

Children and locals stand in a queue here to have a closer look into the space. However, this is neither a planetarium nor any government office. These visuals are from the terrace of Nilagiri resident Sujit Mohanty.

The decreased reportedly has two wives. The first wife, whose divorce case is reportedly still sub-judice, was hell-bent on taking the body. However, the deceased’s mother and the second wife opposed the first wife’s claim on the body. 

Is Odisha gradually turning into a narcotics hub? The question has started haunting the minds of everyone after Forest, Excise and police officials destroyed opium poppy plantations in acres of woodland in the Similipal sanctuary.

Public buzz is back about why the ruling party has pitted a political newbie against an experienced BJP leader like Aparajita Sarangi, even though it was earlier speculated that the BJD was planning to field its general secretary Shreemayee Mishra against Sarangi.

Ratikant Panda, a former student said, "Nizam Sir has retired from his job, but he has not taken retirement from our hearts.”  

Pradeep Panigrahi observed, “The Chief Minister himself has proved that good medical facilities are not available at government hospitals. The burning example is that when the CM is indisposed, why he prefers treatment at Medanta Hospital in New Delhi rather than the SCB hospital in Cuttack or the Capital Hospital in Bhubaneswar.”

Online fraudsters are on the prowl to exploit the sentiments of devotees of Lord Jagannath. Reports have come to the fore that devotees are being cheated on e-commerce platforms in the name of the 'Patitapaban Bana' (Puri temple flag).