Tag: Paradip

Paradip: Tension prevailed after a mob claiming to represent a local politician created ruckus and disrupted rehearsals for Tarang Parivar Awards ceremony at Paradip on Tuesday. As per eye witnesses, the incident occurred at around evening when the artistes of Tarang were busy preparing for the award ceremony scheduled to be held at Paradip tomorrow. […]

Bhubaneswar: Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan today inaugurated the Petrochemical Investors Conclave 2017 in Bhubaneswar with an aim to attract investors towards Petroleum and Plastic Industries. The conclave themed, ‘Purvodaya – The Dawn of New Investment Opportunities’, aimed at providing them a platform to interact with the business leaders. Speaking at the event, Pradhan stressed on […]

Cuttack: The Orissa High Court today dismissed a habeas corpus petition filed by business tycoon Mahima Mishra alleging illegal detention by police in connection with Paradip Tarinigoda firing and Cuttack Press Chhak bombing cases. Mishra who is the founder and managing director of Odisha Stevedores Limited (OSL), a stevedore giant of the country, was arrested […]

An undertrial prisoner allegedly attempted suicide by slitting his throat in Samagola Sub-Jail near Kujang on Tuesday. The prisoner, identified as Gopinath Swain, was lodged in the Sub-Jail four days ago for allegedly burning a girl alive.

Paradip: Authorities of the Dhamra Port Company Ltd (DPCL) today announced an ex-gratia of Rs 20 lakh to the next of kin of the three labourers who got killed after a coal heap caved in the stockyards here on Tuesday. The decision was taken at a review meeting held by the authorities in presence of […]

Paradip: A new oil spill response vessel, ‘Sagar Utkal’, for monitoring the oceonographic activities in Odisha was launched at the Paradip port here on Saturday. The vessel has been dedicated to the Odisha State Pollution Control Board (OSPCB) under the Integrated Coastal Zone Management Project, in order to patrol the coastal areas of Paradip, Dhamra […]

Tirtol: More than hundred farmers of four panchayats under Raghunathpur block today blocked Cuttack-Paradip road near Jaipur demanding immediate release of water into Taladanda and its branch canals. They alleged that due to lack of water in the canals paddy farming has been affected and repeated pleas to the local administration and Water Resources department […]

Paradip: In a bizarre incident, three Coast Guard personnel allegedly attacked the owner of a tyre repairing shop here last night. Sources said two officials came to a tyre repairing shop near the Paradip bus stand last night and  started argument with the shop owner Tapas Ranjan Parija for delay in the repair work. After […]

Paradip: As many as 500 tanker drivers transporting petrol, diesel and aviation fuel from Indian Oil Terminal here have staged dharna after a driver was expelled from his job. Irate over the act of the Oil Corporation, the tanker’s association has called a strike in protest and have demanded immediate reinstatement of the fired truck […]

Paradip: More than hundred dumper truck owners staging dharna in front of the Seaways Shipping and Logistics office here called off their agitation on Tuesday after getting assurance from the company. Demanding clearance of pending dues for the past six months, the truck owners had gheraoed the Seaways Shipping office following which a discussion was […]

Paradip: The standoff between IOCL and consortium of three regional truck owners’ association over controversy surrounding transportation of petroleum coke (petcoke) from the refinery plant has intensified with the administration deploying four platoons of police on the plant site to prevent any untoward incidents. Hundreds of members of three Paradip Truck Owners’ Association, Jagannath Truck […]

Bhubaneswar: Senior Congress leader Srikant Jena today alleged there was a big scam behind shifting the LNG terminal project from Paradip to Dhamra and giving major stake to a private company, and demanded a CBI probe into the matter. “The LNG Terminal project site was shifted to Dhamra, which was originally slated to be set […]

Paradip: After 4 days of floating in deep sea, seven fishermen along with a trawler were rescued by Coast Guard from deep sea off Paradip coast. The Indian Coast Guard Ship (ICGS) Sucheta Kriplani rescued all the stranded fishermen and their fishing boat Nirman-5 after spotting them at around 53 nautical miles deep in the […]

Bhubaneswar: The Centre is mulling to establish three coastal economic zones (CEZs) across the country including one in Odisha which will come up in the combined area of the Paradip and Dhamra ports. In this regard Niti Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant along with his team met the State government officials at the State Secretariat here […]

Bhubaneswar: Coastal districts of Odisha are likely to experience heavy to very heavy rainfall in next 24 hours under the influence of cyclonic storm ‘Mora’ currently 590 km away from the Paradip coast, as per the Regional Meteorological Centre here today. Rains will lash Bhadrak, Jajpur, Mayurbhanj, Jagatsinghpur and Kendrapara districts as the cyclonic storm […]