Tag: Paralakhemundi

Paralakhemundi: The desire to click a selfie at a picnic point here proved fatal for a youth of Paralakhemundi in Gajapati district. The youth identified as Rakesh Pattnayak of Kamakhyanagar here, drowned in Mahendratanaya river while taking selfie at the Brundaban Palace picnic point here on Wednesday. His dead body was recovered this morning. Rakesh […]

Cuttack: A day after Congress MLA from Paralakhemundi K Surya Rao and two others were quizzed, three more political leaders of Gajapati district appeared before the Crime Branch probe team here at the State police headquarters today for interrogation in connection with the mysterious death of Parala King’s former manager Anang Manjari and her three […]

Berhampur: A four-member team of Special Investigating team (SIT) of Crime Branch headed by an additional SP ranked officer today visited Paralakhemundi to start the second phase probe into the controversial suicide pact by the four family members of the Parala king’s manager. The CB sleuths are expected to interrogate family members and some close […]

Bhubaneswar: The Crime Branch of Odisha police will begin its second phase investigation from Monday on the death Paralakhemundi King Gopinath Gajapati Narayan Deo’s former manager Ananga Manjari Patra and her three siblings, who allegedly committed suicide for ‘grabbing’ properties of the king. The CB sleuths are expected to meet family members and some close […]

The viscera report of Santosh Patra alias Tulu, brother of Parala palace manager Ananga Manjari Patra, said he died because of anti-depressant drug overdose, said MKCG Hospital Forensic Lab chief Prof Sachidananda Mohanty

Paralakhemundi: With the shroud of mystery over the deaths of Parala king Gopinath Gajapati Narayan Deb’s former manager Anang Manjari Patra and three of her siblings still to be lifted, local MLA K Suriya Rao moved the Orissa High Court seeking anticipatory bail yesterday. Notably, complaints were lodged against many people, including the local MLA, […]

After completing the first phase of its probe into the mysterious deaths of Anang Manjari Patra, the palace manager of Gopinath Gajapati Narayan Deb, the successor of Gajapati dynasty of Paralakhemundi, and three of her siblings, the Special Investigation Team (SIT) of Crime Branch today returned to its headquarters

Bhubaneswar: Even as the special investigation team (SIT) of Odisha Crime Branch is yet to complete investigation into the mysterious death of Parala king Gopinath Gajapati Narayan Deo’s manager Ananga Manjari Patra and her three siblings, besides the property deals of the king, if any, it has come to fore that the king had disposed […]

Paralakhemundi: Nearly a week after the successor of Gajapati dynasty of Pralakhemundi and former MP Gopinath Gajapati Narayan Deb was shifted to Chennai for treatment, his palace manager Anang Manjari Patra, who was at the centre of controversy over the deteriorating health condition of the king, allegedly committed suicide along with her two siblings at […]

Paralakhemundi: Two days after the Maharaja of Parlakhemundi Gopinath Gajapati Narayan Deb was shifted to Chennai for treatment, local MLA K Surya Rao (Congress) and district BJP president G Ravana today staged a hunger strike in front of the palace here demanding arrest of the king’s manager Kanakmanjari Patra, who they alleged had kept the […]

Terming the talks of house arrest of Parala Maharaja Gopinath Gajapati Narayan Deb in his palace here as false propaganda, manager of the king’s Pratisthana as well as a civil society organisation, the Gajapati Citizen Committee, today said Deb is fit and fine

Paralakhemundi: As many as 22 persons have been arrested for ransacking the Gumma block office on Thursday over ineligible beneficiaries being asked to return their ration cards. According to Serang police sources, all the 22 arrested persons have been forwarded to court. Cases have been registered against them for thrashing policemen during the mob attack. […]

Tension ran high in the premises of Gumma block office today when a mob protesting against the directive asking ineligible beneficiaries of the National Food Security Act (NFSA) to return their ration cards ransacked the Gumma block office and fought a pitched battle with police personnel present at the spot injuring 10 of them

It's been almost a week but mystery still shrouds the death of the Paralakhemundi Assistant Conservator of Forest (ACF) Soumya Ranjan Mohapatra as new shocking revelations continue coming to the fore every day. Speaking to OTV on Monday, Tulasi Mohapatra, the mother of the deceased ACF revealed that before marriage her son and daughter-in-law had made a pact that they would not keep any marital relationship till one year after their wedding.

Despite growing public outrage against hot iron branding in Odisha in the name of curing diseases, the age-old tradition goes unabated in some parts of the State. The cruel tradition reared its ugly head on Saturdaywhen the residents of Subhas Nagar area in Paralakhemundi of Gajapati district were seen branding their children with hot iron nails