In a shocking incident, noted journalist Jimut Mangaraj has passed away after suffering a major road mishap near Janla chhak in the outskirts of Bhubaneswar today. As per sources, Mangaraj was returning from Khordha to Bhubaneswar at around 9 pm today on his scooty numbered OD 02 BO 9402 when he met with the accident.
In a tragic accident in Gujarat's Anand district, a car collided head on with a truck on Wednesday morning, killing nine members of a family, including 2 kids. Gujarat chief minister Vijay Rupani and union home minister Amit Shah have offered their condolences.
At around 3 to 4 am today, Surendra along with his wife and three relatives was on his way from Berhampur in Ganjam district to Rourkela in Sundargarh district when the driver lost control over the vehicle which rammed into a roadside tree.
Krishnan, who hails from Kerala, was sentenced to death by UAE Supreme Court after he was found guilty of killing a young Sudanese boy when he recklessly drove and rammed his car into a group of children in September 2012.
Vehicular movement on the route was disrupted for several hours after a tree uprooted and fell in the middle of the road following the accident forcing hundreds of vehicles stranded on both sides of the road.
My good friend Chitta Ranjan recently landed in hospital and had a steel rod inserted into his left leg. Doctors treating him say he may never be able to drive…
Jajpur: A couple was killed while their eight-year-old daughter was critically injured after a motorcycle they were riding was hit by a speeding truck near Neulpur on NH-16 under Dharmasala…
Etawah: At least 12 people were killed and 43 others were injured after a DCM truck in which they were travelling fell into a 25-feet deep gorge at Chakkarnagar road…
Nayagarh: Three persons were killed and two other sustained critical injuries after two motorcycles collided with each other near the Sub-Divisional Police Officer (SDPO) office in Sarankula area of Nayagarh district late on Thursday night. The three deceased have been identified as Krushna Chandra Nayak and Muna Nayak of Jagannathpur area while Shyam Sundar Sethi […]
Ganjam: In a tragic incident, two minor siblings were run over by a cement-laden truck on National Highway-19 near Gandapalli under Khallikote block in Ganjam district today morning. Their parents who were also critically injured in the mishap have been rushed to the MKCG Medical College and Hospital in Berhampur. The couple has been identified […]
Boudh: A fast moving Swift car crashed into a trawler near Karathakoda on the National Highway No 57 (Kordha-Bolangir road) early on Saturday morning resulting in the death of the driver. Four other occupants suffered serious injuries in the accident. The injured were initially taken to the Old-Cuttack community health centre and later shifted to […]
Sambalpur: Three persons were killed while one sustained critical injuries after their motorbikes, they were riding were hit by an unknown truck in Bareipali area of Sambalpur district late on Tuesday night. The deceased persons have been identified as the residents of Hirakud area in the district. The injured has been admitted to Veer Surendra […]
Karanjia: At least five passengers including a minor boy sustained burn injuries after they got trapped inside a forest fire in Mayurbhanj district following a road mishap on Sunday. All the injured were travelling in an auto-rickshaw when their vehicle collided with another auto near Thakurmunda-Karanjia road. Sources said the occupants of the auto-rickshaw sustained […]
Keonjhar: A bear was critically injured after it was hit by an unidentified vehicle on National Highway No-10 near Katarabeda Chhak, under Ghatagaon forest range in Keonjhar district in the early hours on Thursday. A forest department team from Ghatagaon rescued the injured bear and took it to the office of the Divisional Forest Officer […]
Bhubaneswar: A man driving an SUV in an inebriated condition caused a series of accident on Vani Vihar-Baramunda stretch on NH -16 damaging several vehicles including some two and four wheelers in the city on Wednesday. The driver and a co-passenger have been detained and being questioned. Both have consumed excessive alcohol, police sources said. […]
Berhampur/Keonjhar: One person killed while 31 others got injured in two separate road incidents in Odisha on Tuesday. At least 17 labourers were injured after the tractor, carrying them, overturned near Rajpur area in Patrapur of Ganjam district. Of the injured, five persons were shifted to MKCG Medical College and Hospital in Berhampur after their […]
Gajapati: A mini truck overturned near Kankadaguda chhak in R.Udaygiri area of the district killing 2 people and injuring as many as 20 others. Accorrding to information, the victims, residents of Tumun village, were going to attend a marriage feast at Jamadiha. Teams of police and fire fighting personnel are on the spot for rescue […]
Balasore: A woman constable sustained severe injuries in alleged brick-batting by a group of villagers in Angula who staged a road block in their locality following the death of a youth in an accident, on Friday. The incident took place under Soro police limits in the district. The injured woman constable has been shifted to […]
Mayurbhanj: A truck overturned on an ambulance killing the patient and critically injuring as many as five other people in Bangiriposhi ghat. As per sources, the occupants in the ambulance were shifting a critically ill patient from Tiring hospital to Baripada Medical. The driver of the ambulance and four other family members of the patient […]
Berhampur/Gangtok: Five persons, including an Odia Army personnel were killed in a road mishap near Nathula in Sikkim on Sunday. As per reports, Yajnya Narayan Kar from Athagadapatna village under Kabisuryanagar Police limits in Ganjam was travelling in an army vehicle with four others last night. On the way, the vehicle skidded off a snow- […]
Balasore: In a tragic incident, two persons including a minor boy were killed when a speeding dumper knocked down their motorcycle on State Highway 57 near Satasulia area under Kamarda police limits in the district on Sunday morning. Upon receiving the information by some passersby, police reached the spot,and rushed the victims to the nearby […]
Baripada: At least 25 passengers were injured after a private bus overturned near Hatibari under Rairangpur rural police limits on Thursday. Sources said as many as ten passengers have suffered critical injuries during the mishap. After getting information about the mishap, local fire department dispatched its teams who along with the locals rescued the passengers […]
Sambalpur: The city became a battleground today when hundreds of angry locals created uproarious scene outside the Town Police Station alleging inaction by the cops in the reported death of a minor boy in a road accident on Saturday morning. At around 10 AM, a seven-year-old boy identified as Sahil was crossing the road in […]
Lucknow: At least fourteen people, including six children, were killed when the SUV they were travelling in collided with a parked truck near Manikpur in Uttar Pradesh. The incident took place on the Prayagraj-Lucknow highway around midnight Thursday. Fourteen persons including six children died after the vehicle they were travelling in collided with a truck […]
Gandhinagar: At least 11 people died and over a dozen others injured were injured when a mini-truck in which they were travelling rammed into another truck on the outskirts of Gujarat’s Vadodara city early Wednesday morning, police said. The accident took place at Waghodia circle near the city around 2.45 am when the victims were […]
Bolangir: At least three persons were killed and eight others sustained injuries in two separate road accidents in Odisha on Sunday. Three persons were killed following a head-on collision between a truck and an auto-rickshaw near Sarsara Chhak on Bargarh-Barpalli road. The identity of the three deceased could not be ascertained till the latest reports […]
Sonepur/Angul: Two persons were killed while two others reportedly sustained critical injuries in separate road mishaps in Odisha on Wednesday morning. As per reports, a youth died while his driver was critically injured after the car they were travelling in hit a cable laying machine, parked on the roadside on NH-57 near Arjunpur forest in […]
Keonjhar: At least two persons were killed in a head-on collision involving two trucks on the National Highway-20 in Biragobindapru chhak in Anandapur here today. Sources said the truck drivers have died in the mishap, however, their identification is yet to be ascertained. Both of them reportedly died on the spot. Ghasipura Police has recovered […]
Boudh: At least two persons were killed while 25 others sustained injuries after a bus they were travelling in rammed into an SUV at Kiakata Chhak on the border of Boudh-Angul late Sunday night. The two deceased have been identified as the drivers of the bus and the SUV. Eight of the 25 persons, who […]
Kandhamal: Tension ran high on the Baliguda-Raikia road here following the death of a minor boy in a road mishap on Sunday after locals staged a road blockade demanding compensation and arrest of the person allegedly responsible for the accident. As per reports, the minor from Jidubadi village sustained grievous injuries after he was reportedly […]
Angul: Two persons were killed after a truck hit another truck from the rear on National Highway-55 in Angul district early morning on Sunday. The accident took place near Bhagirathipur under Jarapada Police limits in the district. The two deceased have been identified as the driver and helper of one of the two trucks. Further […]
Jajpur: In a tragic incident, one person was killed while 2 others are critically injured in an accident near Mukundabindha area of Jajpur district on Thursday morning. As per reports, a car and a truck had a head–on collision near Mukundabindha village on the NH-16, under Panikoili police limits, early on Thursday morning. In their […]
Bhubaneswar: A driver of a truck was injured after the vehicle rammed into another truck on CRP flyover on national highway 16 in the State Capital on Wednesday. According to eyewitnesses present at the spot, a goods-laden truck hit another truck loaded with heavy iron bars on the flyover near CRP square in the city. […]
Cuttack: In an unfortunate turn of events, a car fell into a drain in Kalyannagar area of Cuttack today. According to sources, there were 2-3 persons inside the car, which fell into the drain after losing balance in the narrow road. Sources informed that ODRAF & police personnel rushed to the spot and launched rescue […]
Baliguda: At least two bikers were killed in a road accident in Baliguda area late last night. The deceased have been identified as Prakash Pradhan and Milu Pradhan of Kidramal village under Partamaha panchayat of Kandhamal district. As per reports, both Prakash and Milu were en-route to Pattangi when a speeding vehicle coming from the […]
Berhampur: At least seven persons were killed after a bus carrying labourers from Ganjam collided with a truck head-on near Cherikhedi in Chhattisgarh on Saturday. As per reports, the bus carrying the labourers was en-route to Surat from Ganjam district when the mishap occurred. Over 20 labourers were travelling in the bus, said sources. Meanwhile, […]
Berhampur: A pregnant woman and her niece died after reportedly being knocked down by an unidentified vehicle at K Lachmanpalli in Aska area of Ganjam district on Monday morning. The deceased has been identified as Rashmita Parida and her niece Asha Rani Khanduala. According to sources, the accident took place near K Lachmanpalli on Aska-Kabisuryanagar […]
Colombo: Sri Lanka batsman Kusal Mendis was on Sunday arrested for knocking down a pedestrian while driving, police said. Mendis hit a 74-year-old man, killing him in the wee hours, in the Colombo suburb of Panadura. He is to be produced before a magistrate later today, police said. The 25-year-old wicket-keeper batsman has represented Sri […]
Bhubaneswar: Odisha witnessed a significant reduction in the number of road accidents and fatalities since the implementation of amended Motor Vehicles (MV) Act across the country from September 1, 2019, informed State transport Minister Padmanabha Behera. According to data given by Behera, the number of road accidents have gone down by 355 (a reduction of […]
Bhubaneswar: At least three persons including a migrant labourer were killed while more than 17 persons sustained injuries in separate road mishaps in Odisha Tuesday morning. As per reports, a bus ferrying passengers from Navi Mumbai in Maharashtra to West Bengal collided with a gas tanker near Luhamunda under Handapa Police limits on NH-44 in […]