Tag: Paradip

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12-year-old girl drowns in Paradip Port club swimming pool

Paradip: Tragedy struck at the posh officers’ club of Paradip Port Trust after a 12 -year-old girl met watery grave at the swimming poll of the club. The victim has been identified as Aparna Priyadarsahi, a class six student of a local school. Ironically the mishap took place when she was learning swimming in the […]

  • Wednesday, 21 July 2021
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Posco gone, villages exposed to vagaries of nature

Jagatsinghpur: Once it was lush-green with luxuriant tree cover depicting an idyllic ambience. The thick forest with standing mangrove and casuarina cover was virtually a paradise for those evincing interest in eco-tourism. But that has become a thing of the past. The breathtaking greenery has disappeared from wetland spots in the periphery of Noliasahi, Gadakujang […]

  • Wednesday, 21 July 2021
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Abandoned Posco building a grim reminder of derailed FDI

Paradip: A sprawling three-storey building with elegant designing backed up by plenty of open space dots the outskirts of Paradip Seaport Township. There is every reason for a casual visitor to mistake it to be an engineering college imparting B. Tech courses. The closure of this college for summer vacation may strike one’s minds at […]

  • Wednesday, 21 July 2021
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Trouble still persists for Anti-Posco activists as arrest fear haunts them

Bhubaneswar: Odisha’s most protracted resistance movement against any industrial venture may have come to an end for all practical purpose with South Korean steelmakers calling it quits. But for those who had plunged into the anti-posco movement, trouble is far from over. Fear of ‘arrest’ and ‘languishing in jail’ hovers around them like Damocles sword. […]

  • Wednesday, 21 July 2021
Posco Loss
Life has turned a full circle for Posco project villagers

Bhubaneswar: With the scrapping of big-ticket Posco steel project, life has come full circle for people in the proposed project areas as they stoically recall the brief spell of opulence that had once come on their way from the land compensation sum. Shored up by land compensation doles, villagers who had given away their land […]

  • Wednesday, 21 July 2021
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Posco confirms scrapping Odisha proj in letter to Industries deptt

Bhubaneswar: Posco authorities have asked the Odisha government to take back the 2,700 acre land acquired for setting up of a 12-million tonne (mt) steel mill in Paradip citing its failure to start work for the project, said Industries Minister Debi Prasad Mishra today. Informing newsmen on the letter sent by Posco, Mishra stated, “As […]

  • Wednesday, 21 July 2021
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Two-day joint naval exercise ‘Sagar Kavach’ concludes at Paradip port

Bhubaneswar: A two-day joint naval exercise – Sagar Kavach – held in view of the coastal security, by the Indian Navy, Coast Guards and Odisha Police, concluded at the Paradip port today. Tripartite training regarding entry of intruders through coastal areas and security measures were included in the exercise. Importance was given on providing awareness […]

  • Wednesday, 21 July 2021
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BJD terms Union Oil Minister’s charges as 'false statements'

Bhubaneswar: In reply to the statements of Union Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan alleging the Odisha Government has violated the agreement signed in between Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL) and the State, BJD spokesperson Pratap Keshari Deb on Sunday said the charges made by Pradhan as well as the facts presented by him are false while […]

  • Wednesday, 21 July 2021
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2 critical after under construction bridge slab collapses in Paradip

Paradip: At least two persons sustained critical injuries after a slab of an under-construction bridge over Paradip-Haridaspur railway line near Tikarapanga area at Bhutamundei collapsed here on Thursday morning. According to sources, the injured persons have been shifted to Cuttack. Some more people are believed to be trapped under the concrete rubble, sources added. Meanwhile, […]

  • Wednesday, 21 July 2021
MAHIMA'S Nephew
Seaways Shipping GM murder: OSL chief’s nephew deposes before police

Paradip: After getting a summon to depose before the Paradip police by January 15, Orissa Stevedores Limited (OSL) chief Mahima Mishra’s nephew Chinmaya Mishra today reached the Paradip police station for quizzing regarding the murder of Seaways Shipping General Manager Mahendra Swain. Sources said Chinmaya is likely to be questioned on financial dealings of Mahima […]

  • Wednesday, 21 July 2021
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Petcoke transportation issue at Paradip port settled partially

Paradip: The petcoke transportation row at Pardip port today ended partially after the truck owners’ association agreed to allow 15 Hiwa trucks laden with petcokes for shipment. The truck owners’ association, which has been opposing transportation of petcoke in Hiwa truck from IOCL refinery to Paradip Port, relented after Additional Collector Biswajit Biswal intervened and […]

  • Wednesday, 21 July 2021
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Seaways GM Murder: OSL DGM appears before Paradip Police

Paradip: Odisha Stevedores Limited DGM (Finance) Rabindra Dalei appeared before the Paradip police today in connection with the murder of Seaways Shipping general manager Mahendra Swain. The police are probing into the financial transaction of the OSL during the murder of Swain. On January 8, the Paradip police had served a notice to Dalei asking […]

  • Wednesday, 21 July 2021
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Police serves notice to Mahima Mishra’s 2 sons, OSL accountant

Paradip: The Paradip police today issued notice to Odisha Stevedores Limited (OSL) Managing Director Mahimananda Mishra’s two sons and accountant of the company to appear before them in connection with the murder of Seaways Shipping general manager Mahendra Swain. The police asked Mishra’s sons Chandan and Charchit and OSL accountant Rabindra Dalei to appear at […]

  • Wednesday, 21 July 2021
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Mahima Mishra questioned in Jalaram Transport firing case

Paradip: A joint team of Angul police, Paradip ASP and Paradip IIC carried out a marathon interrogation to industrialist Mahima Mishra in connection with the firing at Jalaram Transport in Angul on the last day of his remand period. Paradip police has already interrogated Mishra in Seaways Shipping GM Mahendra Swain’s murder case. He has […]

  • Wednesday, 21 July 2021
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Seaways GM murder: Raid on Mahima Mishra’s house, wife grilled

Bhubaneswar: Close on the heels of the brutal murder of Mahendra Swain, General Manager of General Manager of Seaways Shipping and Logistics Private Limited (SSPL), a team of Paradip Police today raided the house of Mahima Mishra, Managing Director of Odisha Stevedores Ltd (OSL) for the second time and interrogated his wife Mala Mishra. Reports […]

  • Tuesday, 20 July 2021
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