Tag: Rourkela

Rourkela: Palpable tension prevailed at the Steel city today after a scuffle broke out between locals and police personnel in Rourkela reportedly over demands to lift the containment orders imposed in several areas. On April 26, the Rourkela Municipal Corporation (RMC) had marked some areas of the city as containment and buffer zones after detection […]

Bhubaneswar: Amid sluggish market scenario across the world due to the COVID-19 crisis, the Rourkela Steel Plant, a unit of state-run SAIL, on Sunday said it has bagged an order of over 6,000 tonne of special grade plates for supplying to the European market. The facility will be exporting CE-marked plates conforming to the European […]

Rourkela: The private bus owners in the city on Monday sought intervention of the local administration in making available online booking facility for passengers to ease problems faced by bus operators due to Covid lockdown. Members of the Rourkela Private Bus Owners Association held a meeting with Rourkela Additional District Magistrate and pitched the idea […]

Rourkela: In view of rising COVID-19 cases, Rourkela administration has decided to introduce stricter quarantine norms for returnees and travellers coming to the city. Now every person coming to Rourkela will have to spend 14-days in home or institutional quarantine. The norm will be applicable for people coming from 14 COVID-19 hotspot districts in the […]

Sundergarh: After few initial weeks of COVID scare, steel city Rourkela and other parts of the district which stayed above the clutch of the viral disease now seems to be on the verge of becoming a hotspot. In the last two days, as many as 95 people in Rourkela alone have been detected COVID positive […]

Bhubaneswar: The Covid-19 pandemic seems to be expanding its footprints in Odisha and has so far affected more than 14000 people in the State. Amid a huge influx of migrants from different parts of the country and abroad, the state government too during the initial days claimed of a comprehensive plan in place to battle […]

Bhubaneswar:  In view of increasing cases of Corona infection in Odisha, the state government will re-enforce 14-day complete lockdown in 4-high caseload districts—Cuttack, Khurda, Jajpur and Ganjam, and entire Rourkela Municipal Corporation area from tonight. However, there will be no weekend shutdown in the specified districts during this 2-week long lockdown. Odisha Chief Secretary Asit […]

Bhubaneswar: The Rourkela Steel Plant, a unit of the state-run SAIL, on Sunday said it has started offering price-based incentives to local industries to boost consumption of the metal. The micro, small and medium enterprises can get an incentive of Rs 100 per tonne on distribution charge and Rs 300 on supplies from the local […]

Bhubaneswar: Taking Odisha’s fight against Coronavirus a step further, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Friday inaugurated third Plasma Bank of the State at Ispat General Hospital (IGH) in Rourkela. Inaugurating the Plasma Bank, Patnaik said that IGH will play a crucial role in fighting the deadly virus that has acquired a pandemic proportion in the […]

Rourkela: Covid-19 cases continue to be a major concern for prison authorities in Odisha with as many as 17 jail inmates of Rourkela Special Jail testing positive for the virus on Thursday. Following detection of the infection, all the inmates of the jail have been admitted to Rourkela Covid Hospital. Out of the total 1466 […]

Rourkela: A woman was nabbed by Uditnagar police in the steel city for reportedly cheating by posing as an Indian Police Service (IPS) officer. Sarmistha Behera, a resident of Bhadrak’s Dhamnagar, was arrested from City Bazaar square of Rourkela town on Tuesday. According to sources, the accused woman claiming herself as an IPS officer had […]

Bhubaneswar: Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP), a unit of the state-run SAIL, has registered a record monthly production of 3,33,840 tonne of hot metal in August, a statement said on Tuesday. The monthly road dispatch of prime material at 54,183 tonnes was also an all-time high. “The steel plant made 3,33,840 tonnes of hot metal from […]

Rourkela: Palpable tension prevailed in Malgodown area under Udit Nagar PS of Rourkela following a fierce group clash between two factions of the slum on Thursday. Keeping in mind the prevailing situation, five platoons of police force have been deployed in the area to ward off any fresh trouble. Immediately after the incident yesterday, Udit […]

Rourkela: Amid rapid degradation and pollution of natural resources of land and water, declining soil fertility, pesticide pollution and the problem of pest-resistance, farmers are now switching to alternative sustainable ways to conserve soil through organic farming. Setting example for farmers in Odisha, 77-year-old, Uday Chandra Patra from Rourkela, a retired mechanic, is now scripting […]

Rourkela: Union Minister and senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Jual Oram addressed a farmers’ meet in Rourkela today termed the farm bills as historic and said that the bills will ensure livelihood and income generation for farmers. Oram said that the Congress and a few other political parties are misleading the farmers by spreading […]