Tag: Rourkela

Bhubaneswar: Services of Rourkela-Koraput Express will be restored temporarily on a tri-weekly basis from February 4, informed the East Coast Railway. The up train 18107 will leave Rourkela every Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday with effective from February 4 whereas the down train 18108 will leave from Koraput every Monday, Wednesday and Friday with effective from […]

Rourkela: Five persons including two former Maoist cadres were arrested by Bisra police here on Monday for allegedly running an extortion racket in the name of Maoists. All the accused belong to Jharkhand, police said. Two out of five arrested were earlier associated with Maoists, but later they had left the outfit. A pistol has […]

Sambalpur: Two accused in the attack on a doctor on duty at Kuchinda sub divisional hospital in Sambalpur were nabbed from Rourkela on Thursday. Earlier on January 21, one of the accused had entered the chamber of doctor Subodh Nayak in the hospital and had attacked him with a steel stool. The entire incident has […]

Rourkela: Tension prevailed in Rourkela today after locals including women in the area detained a police vehicle and vandalised it near Ring Road during a road blockade staged to protest death of two persons in a road mishap here on Saturday. Three police personnel have been injured in the attack. As per sources, four students […]

Rourkela: After a respite of few days, unidentified miscreants again looted cash from an State Bank of India (SBI) ATM counter at Dumerta under Bandhamunda police limits in Rourkela late Friday night. As per sources, the miscreants broke the ATM machine with the help of a digging bar lying near one of the houses in […]

Rourkela: A herd of wild elephants has been reportedly creating havoc in Rourkela for the last couple of days. As per sources a resident of Kopasinga range of Rourkela Forest Division was killed in an elephant attack here on Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Padma Munda. The pachyderms ran amok in agricultural fields and […]

Rourkela: A 50-year-old man was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly raping a minor girl in the RS Colony under Bandhamunda police limits in Rourkela. The man, identified as Sushil Naik, allegedly lured the nine-year-old girl with a chocolate and took her to a lonely place where he raped her. Though the incident occurred on December […]

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government will start regional flight operations from Jharsuguda airport under Centre’s UDAN scheme in the first week of February 2018, officials said today. Chief Secretary A P Padhi informed the reporters after discussing the matter at a state-level coordination and monitoring committee meeting at Secretariat. “The flight from Jharsuguda is scheduled to […]

Rourkela: The Additional and District Sessions Judge Court today sentenced six persons to 20-year jail term each after convicting them of raping a woman on July 18, 2015. Judge Srinivas Pratihari pronounced the verdict after convicting them under Sec 376 (d), informed additional public prosecutor Ajay Kumar Pradhan. The court also directed the convicts to […]

Bhubaneswar: Amid mudslinging between State and Centre over construction of the second bridge on Brahmani River near Rourkela, the NHAI authorities today held discussions with Chief Secretary AP Padhi at the Secretariat and assured to start the project soon after getting necessary approvals from State. “We have discussed all projects including some under Bharatmala scheme. […]

Rourkela: Two girls from Sundergarh district were allegedly sold to a broker in Saudi Arabia for Rs 25 lakh after being blackmailed with a sex video by a middleman, who is reportedly a cousin of one of the victims. The two women, however, managed to escape with the help of the Indian Embassy and later […]

New Delhi/Bhubaneswar: In reply to the letter of Union Road Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari which stated that delay in forest clearance was the reason for non-commencement of construction of second bridge over Brahmani River, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today said no such clearance is necessary for the construction as the proposed site is non-forest in […]

Rourkela: The Rourkela Additional District and Sessions Judge Court today awarded a jail term of 20 years each to five persons after convicting them in a rape case that took place near Pitamahal Dam in November 2016. The court also ordered the five accused to pay a fine of Rs 20,000 each. Ajay Kumar Pradhan, […]

New Delhi/Bhubaneswar: Replying to Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on construction of second bridge over river Brahmani in Rourkela, Union Road Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari today said delay in granting statutory approval from Odisha Government including forest clearance and land acquisition has led to non- commencement of project on Birmitrapur-Barkote section of NH-143. In a letter […]

Rourkela: In a major breakthrough, Rourkela police on Tuesday arrested 9 persons including two juveniles for their alleged involvement in the loot of Rs 25 lakh from a State Bank of India (SBI) cash van. Addressing a press conference, SP, Kabita Jalan informed that two employees of the Cash Management Solutions entrusted with the job […]