Tag: Odisha

Cuttack: Intensifying its drive against the ongoing organized extortions in the State, police on Friday arrested notorious criminal Sayed Abdul Mutaquid alias Muna Laden reportedly for extorting ‘dadabati’ from land brokers and land sale deals. Laden is stated to be a principal aide and right hand of dreaded gangster Sayed Usman Ali alias Tito of […]

Bolangir: The police on Saturday detained two more persons, reportedly residents from outside the district, in connection with the gruesome massacre of six members of a family which came to light on Wednesday. With this, the number of the detainees in the case so far has gone up to four. According to sources, the police […]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha’s Covid-19 death toll surged past 1500 on Saturday as 15 more patients undergoing treatment at various hospitals succumbed to the virus in the last 24 hours. The total fatalities in Odisha now stand at 1,510, as per the data released by State Health And Family Welfare (H&HW) Department. With 902 fresh cases during […]

Gajapati: Despite the Odisha government’s claims about a plethora of welfare schemes aimed at providing better healthcare to the people, instances of lack of basic medical facilities for expecting mothers have become a regular affair in the State. In another such instance earlier on Saturday, a woman delivered a baby in the middle of a […]

Malkangiri:  A girl from the tribal dominated Kadamguda village, under the Mathili police limits of the district, who had gone missing since childhood, returned home from Delhi after 12 long years, in a heart-warming case of lost and found. According to sources, Tulsi Bhumia went missing from Rourkela where her family members worked as migrant […]

Bhubaneswar: The officials and staff of the School and Mass Education Department will not do any roster arrangement for the month of November as the department has withdrawn its earlier order in this regard. A notification has been issued by the department in this regard. All the staff will attend the office on all working […]

Bhubaneswar: The number of daily Covid-19 cases in Odisha continued to remain below 1,000 for the third day in a row on Sunday. As many as 753 tested positive for the virus in the last 24 hours pushing the total cases to 308659. At least seventeen patients undergoing treatment at various hospitals succumbed to the […]

Bhubaneswar: Several parts of Odisha saw a dip in mercury with at least three places in the State recording 14 degrees Celsius. Daringbadi in Kandhamal district was the coldest in the State recording the lowest temperature of 13 degree Celsius on Saturday, informed the regional centre of the India Meteorological Department (IMD). According to the […]

Nabarangpur: Delight knows no bounds for people of the tribal-dominated district after Odisha government announced to construct a high-level bridge on Indravati river in order to provide a much awaited connectivity between Nabarangpur and Rayagada. As per government declaration, plans are afoot to construct a 720 metre-long bridge on Indravati. The project is likely to […]

Kandhamal: Intensifying its crackdown on the cultivation and supply of illegal cannabis, a joint team of the Kandhamal police and Excise department officials destroyed ganja cultivation on acres of lands in different forest areas here in the district. Acting on a tipoff, the police and excise sleuths conducted crackdown in Kudutuli, Jampadar, Janagual areas under […]

Gunupur: A pall of gloom descended on Sai Nagar area under Padmapur police limits here in Rayagada district after the bodies of a woman and her daughter were found inside a house on Sunday morning. Though the exact reason behind their death is unknown, it is suspected that the duo died due to electrocution. The […]

Bhadrak: Devotees in large number throng Baladiapada under Goramati panchyat here in the district after a ‘Shiva Linga’ emerged out of the ground during soil excavation for construction of a park on Saturday. According to sources, the Shiva Linga was found when ground levelling work being done at the site by a tractor. A part […]

Balasore: The mega drinking water project in Bhogarai block of Balasore district has allegedly failed to serve its sole purpose, thanks to the alleged snail pace work. Due to the presence of Fluoride in the ground water, as the region is situated along the sea, the water is unfit for drinking. With an aim to […]

Bhubaneswar: Members of Odisha Natya Sangha (ONS), an outfit of theatre personalities, staged a silent protest in front of Rabindra Mandap here on Sunday, demanding reopening of theatres across the state. Theatres, cultural centres and drama halls across the state are lying closed for the last eight months in the wake the outbreak of Covid-19 […]

Bolangir: At least three persons were killed and eight others sustained injuries in two separate road accidents in Odisha on Sunday. Three persons were killed following a head-on collision between a truck and an auto-rickshaw near Sarsara Chhak on Bargarh-Barpalli road. The identity of the three deceased could not be ascertained till the latest reports […]