Tag: Rourkela

At least eight workers are in critical condition following a carbon monoxide gas leak at Rourkela Steel Plant. The incident occurred during repair work at blast furnace number-5. Injured workers are receiving treatment in ICU at Ispat General Hospital.

The matter came to the fore when Mukhi applied for a loan from a private company. Subsequently, Raghunathpali police detained him. Mukhi is being interrogated as part of the investigation.

The Director of the Health Services made it clear that all such cases can't be directly linked with sunstroke/heat strokes and the exact reasons for their death can only be ascertained by assessing the circumstantial inquiry and post-mortem reports.

In Rourkela, two more deaths at the Government Hospital raise the suspected heatstroke death toll to 16 in Sundargarh District. Authorities are transferring critical patients to Hi-Tech Hospital in Bhubaneswar as preventive steps continue.

Superintendent of the RGH, Sudharani Pradhan informed that eight of the persons were received dead while two others died after reaching the hospital. “It has not been established that they have died of heatstroke. That has happened for unknown reasons. We are unable to give their history,” she said.

While doctors claimed brain haemorrhage caused by high blood pressure to be the possible reason of the UTP's death, family members alleged torture inside jail to be the reason behind his death.  

The BJP has fielded its heavyweight and three-time MLA Dilip Ray against BJD’s Sarada Prasanna Nayak. The Congress has fielded Birendranath Patnaik.

Officials of the district administration, senior police officials and representatives of 58 Akhada committees were present at the meeting which was presided over by the Rourkela SP. Traffic management and procession timings were discussed at the meeting.

Dilip Ray told the media, "No leader of Odisha has been received by people like I was received here. I am really emotional over such a warm welcome. The people have handed me victory even without contesting elections.”

The accused has been identified as Kadam Sadashiv, a resident of Telangana. He allegedly posed himself as an RPF official on his Instagram account and managed to establish romantic relationships with some girls. Later the accused allegedly tricked the gullible girls into paying him handsomely.  

This came after Nandlal's wife who was undergoing treatment at Rourkela for the last three months died on March 20, 2024. Sources said Nandlal's wife sustained critical burn injuries while she was sitting beside a bonfire in January this year.

On the wedding day, the woman and her family members, with all preparations, were waiting for Biranchi’s arrival but he didn’t turn up.

The aide has been identified as Amir Ali. He was arrested from the Sector-3 area of Rourkela, informed Rourkela SP Mitrabhanu Mohapatra. The SP said that a Central team arrested Amir Ali on Wednesday night from Rourkela. 

According to his roommates, they were asleep when he left the room late at night. Later, his friends and other hostel mates spotted his dead body lying in a pool of blood early Sunday morning. 

The entire incident has been caught in the CCTV camera installed inside the office. The involvement of locals behind the robbery is suspected. However, there has been no official confirmation in this regard.