Tag: Odisha

Angul: Vigilance sleuths on Wednesday conducted simultaneous raids at four places associated with Basant Kumar Bastia, junior engineer in Boinda Rural Development department, on charges of amassing properties disproportionate to his know sources of income. According to sources, several teams of the anti-corruption agency raided Bastia’s double storied and four storied buildings, his relative’s house […]

Sonepur/Angul: Two persons were killed while two others reportedly sustained critical injuries in separate road mishaps in Odisha on Wednesday morning. As per reports, a youth died while his driver was critically injured after the car they were travelling in hit a cable laying machine, parked on the roadside on NH-57 near Arjunpur forest in […]

Bhubaneswar: Amid heightened fears that coronavirus cases will surge after the onset of the winter especially with the lifting of major curbs, experts have predicted that people’s haphazard response to the crisis may possibly worsen the pandemic situation in the State. After registering a record-low daily positives (in last 2 months) on Tuesday, Odisha again […]

Bhubaneswar: The media fraternity of Odisha strongly condemned the treatment meted out to Republic TV editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami by Mumbai Police, and has extended its solidarity towards Republic Media Network after the former was arrested today in an abetment to suicide case of 2018. As per reports, over a dozen officers of the Mumbai Police […]

Bhubaneswar: Classes for students from IX to XII will resume in November for which the guidelines and standard operating procedure (SOP) are being prepared by the School and Mass Education Department. “A meeting of senior officials was held yesterday to discuss the modalities for the re-opening of Classes from IX to XII. Schools will open […]

Rourkela: Mystery shrouds the death of a Class X girl student whose body was recovered from Brahmani River near Panposh area here today. The minor girl, whose identity is yet to be established, had gone missing from the market yesterday. After her body was found floating in the river today, the family members were informed. […]

Angul: The Angul district administration has seized huge quantities of firecrackers during a raid in Ward No-13 under Talcher Municipality area here on Tuesday night. The move came hours after the Odisha Government prohibited the sale and bursting of firecrackers between November 10 and 30 in view of the Covid 19 pandemic. Acting on a […]

Cuttack: The Orissa High Court on Wednesday expressed its displeasure over the failure of the Odisha Crime Branch to submit the status report on investigation into the death of social activist Aditya Dash. While hearing a petition, the court directed the probe agency to submit the updated status report by November 11 and scheduled the […]

Malkangiri: Security forces busted a major hideout of Maoists insurgents and seized huge quantity of arms, ammunition and other articles in Swabhiman Anchal (cut-off area) of Malkangiri district. The camp was busted during a joint operation launched by the Odisha Police, BSF and Andhra Pradesh Police on specific intelligence inputs. Two SLRs, one .303 rifle, […]

Bhubaneswar: Several districts of Odisha may experience light to moderate rainfall or thundershower till tomorrow morning, the India Meteorological Centre in Bhubaneswar informed on Wednesday. Light to moderate rain or thundershower likely to occur at one or two places over the districts of Malkangiri, Koraput, Rayagada, Gajapati, Ganjam and Kandhamal, but dry weather will prevail […]

Bhubaneswar: In the latest instance on how the capital city of Odisha is turning into a safe heaven for criminals, a 75-year-old medicine shop owner was brutally assaulted and looted of gold ornaments on the outskirts of the city on Wednesday. The robbers stormed a medicine shop located in Balianta area and executed the crime […]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday said that there will be no relaxations in restrictions on celebration of Diwali this year as there is every likelihood that the State may witness the second wave of Covid-19 infection after mid-December. While taking stock of the Coronavirus situation in the State, the CM said that […]

Cuttack: Odisha Melody Association on Wednesday urged the State government to extend financial assistance to artistes engaged in the profession to ride out the crisis that has arisen in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. The association members alleged that the artistes have remained jobless for the last eight months since the outbreak of the […]

Bhubaneswar: Pensioners will no longer have to visit the treasuries and banks for submission of different certificates as the Odisha government has made special arrangements for disbursement of pension/family pension by making changes in the existing pension disbursement process. The decision was taken in view of Covid-19 pandemic situation and in order to bring service […]

New Delhi: The enhanced Pinaka rocket developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) was successfully flight tested from the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur off the coast of Odisha on Wednesday. The enhanced version of the Pinaka rocket would replace the existing Pinaka Mk-I rockets which are currently under production. “Development of the […]