Tag: Paradip

Paradip: In a gruesome act, a man killed his wife and then burnt her body at Biswali village near the port town on Tuesday night. The deceased has been identified as Amita Parida. According to sources, Prakash, husband of Amita, strangulated her to death and then burnt the body by pouring kerosene on it in […]

Police on Wednesday arrested Trade Union leader Abhay Sahoo and three others in connection with the agitation staged by hundreds of protesters in front of the Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL) refinery at Paradip

Paradip: In a tragic incident, a man and his four-year old son were charred to death at Matha Sahi in Gindikipur area under Kujang block in the district on Friday evening. The deceased have been identified as Sarala Das and his son Badal Das. According to sources, the incident took place when a major fire […]

Paradip: What was meant to be a Sunday outing of fun and frolic turned into a nightmare for a group of six students of All India Institute of Medical Science (AIIMS), Bhubaneswar when one of them went missing while taking bath at Mahanadi river mouth here today. The missing student has been identified as Asil […]

Paradip: The birth centenary of former chief minister Biju Patnaik will be celebrated in a grand manner here on March 5. The Biju Memorial Trust, which has been celebrating the birthday of the late leader, informed newsmen today at a press meet here that the event will not be a party programme but solely a […]

The politics over the inauguration of IOCL’s Paradip refinery has refused to die down with the BJP today launching a scathing attack on the ruling BJD, demanding arrest of its legislators who allegedly created ruckus during the ceremony

Bhubaneswar/Bargarh: Claimed to have made the IOCL function a great success, the BJP has focussed western Odisha, where a mega farmers rally is going to be attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on February 21. “The PM’s farmers’ rally, which is going to be organised in Bargarh, will be the biggest one”, BJP’s Odisha’s in-charge […]

Bhubaneswar: A day after the BJP accused the BJD of conspiring to foil the meeting in Paradip on February 7 where Prime Minister Narendra Modi dedicated the IOCL refinery to the nation, an exclusive video footage obtained by OTV today shows Niali BJD MLA Pramod Mallick being forced to walk wearing a saffron cap and uttariya (scarf), part of the BJP attire, by an irate mob of saffron workers wielding lathis.

The BJP today claimed that the ruling BJD leaders had planned to foil the meeting at Paradip during the visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to dedicate the IOCL refinery to the nation yesterday

BJD MLA from Paradip and minister Damodar Rout on Sunday alleged that the BJP had transformed the IOCL function into a party progarmme at Paradip today

Hours before the dedication ceremony of IOCL refinery at Paradip, activists of BJD and BJP had face-offs near the venue for the function and Jagatsinghpur

Paradip: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today gave credit to former chief minister Biju Patnaik for the setting up of IOCL refinery at Paradip.

Bhubaneswar: Cornered in the tug of war between ruling BJD and BJP to take credit for IOCL’s refinery at Paradip ahead of its inauguration, the Congress party woke up on Saturday to claim that the contribution of the two parties towards the development of the port town is zero. “Whatever development is seen in Paradip […]

Bhubaneswar: Three major political parties of Odisha – BJD, BJP and Congress – are jostling with each other to take credit for the IOCL refinery at Paradip. While ruling BJD presented data regarding the State government’s contribution towards setting up of the IOCL refinery in a press meet, BJP, which is in power at the […]

Bhubaneswar: The police on Friday conducted security mock drills in Bhubaneswar and Puri ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Sunday visit to the State. The Commissionerate police conducted drills in the city in which more than thirty vehicles took part. The drill began from the campus of National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER) […]