Tag: Otv

Bhubaneswar: In yet another instance of police excess against OTV, another official of Odisha’s leading news channel was picked up forcibly by a posse of police personnel, who woke him up from sleep at 3.30 am on Tuesday, after barging into the channel’s studio campus at Sarua in Khurdha. A team of around 15 to […]

Bhubaneswar: Randhir Singh, father of OTV MD Jagi Mangat Panda on Tuesday sought help from Union Home Minister Amit Shah against the protracted police excess against his family and employees at the channel’s studio in Sarua, Khordha, in the guise of investigation into a land issue. Stating that his family and employees have been forced […]

Bhubaneswar: Men, women, children and even elderly people have been living under house arrest like conditions for the last 11 days at the OTV and Tarang studio complex at Sarua in Khordha district. Some contractual labourers have been staging dharna in front of the studio’s gate and locked the front and the back gates of […]

Khurdha: The court of the Sub-divisional Judicial Magistrate (SDJM), Khurdha has directed the officials at the Baghamari police station to register all complaints filed by Odisha Television Ltd (OTV) in three cases related to the Sarua land issue. The court also ordered the police to submit a detailed report by December 15 after conducting proper […]

Bhubaneswar: Senior BJP leader, Ram Madhav on Sunday slammed the vindictive action by Odisha police against OTV and its staff at the behest of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik-led BJD government in the State. In a tweet, the senior BJP leader said, “Odisha government is doing OTV what Maharashtra did to Republic. Promoter of the channel […]

Bhubaneswar: The Indian Digital Media Association (IDMA), a conglomeration of nationalist digital media portals, on Monday condemned the concerted witch-hunt which has been launched by the Odisha government against OTV for reporting alleged corruption by the Naveen Patnaik-led BJD government in the State. In a statement, the IDMA clearly stated that any government certainly has […]

Bhubaneswar: The head of the Human Resources Department of Odisha Television Ltd (OTV), Partha Nandy on Monday said that the sudden resignation of channel’s Chief Operating Officer (COO) Nihar Ranjan Bhuyan was on account of the pressure exerted on the latter at the behest of the Odisha government. Terming the senior employee’s exit as another […]

Bhubaneswar: There seems to be no let up to the cold wave condition as mercury continues to dip at several places in the State. According to the regional MeT office in Bhubaneswar, 10 cities in Odisha recorded temperature below 10 degree Celsius on Sunday. While Phulbani emerged the coldest with the minimum temperature going down […]

Bhubaneswar: A fake news regarding shutdown of Berhampur city is doing rounds on social media with OTV graphics and logo even as the channel has not aired any such news this year. Neither the TV channel nor its digital platform has published/telecast any sort of news. Some mischief mongers have used the logo and graphics […]