Tag: Rourkela

Sonepur: Naveen Bag, a farmer in Sonepur district got the biggest shock of his life recently. The farmer, who ekes out a living by toiling in his one acre agricultural land, recently received a notice for alleged Goods and Services Tax (GST) evasion to the tune of a whopping Rs 10 crore. Naveen felt the […]

Rourkela: A man was beaten to death by a local meat trader over a trivial issue of non-payment of pending dues at Tilak Nagar area of the steel city in Sundergarh district, police said on Sunday. The deceased identified as Padmalocan Purti is an employee of Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP). Police sources said Purti had […]

New Delhi: The raids conducted by the Income Tax department against an Odisha-based group involved in manufacturing and trading of steel products has led to the detection of about Rs 170 crore black income and presence of bogus directors who are actually gullible daily wage earners, the CBDT said on Tuesday. The group which has […]

Rourkela: A journalist living at AB Square near Koel Nagar here in the city has been charged with evading Goods and Services Tax (GST) by violating the prescribed guidelines of the government. The GST Enforcement department in the State has put up a notice outside his residence, asking him to appear with necessary documents on […]

Rourkela: Vigilance sleuths on Tuesday conducted raids at separate places in Rourkela and Berhampur over disproportionate assets cases. The anti-graft officials on Tuesday raided the residence of a Commercial Tax official working at the office of GST in Rourkela. The official identified as Alekh Mahananda has been charged with accumulating properties disproportionate to his known […]

Rourkela: Two persons including the loco pilot of a goods train were injured after the train derailed near Bimlagarh junction in Sundargarh district on Tuesday. The goods guard of the train was also reportedly injured during the incident. As per reports, the train was coming from Barasuan under K Balanga police limits in the district […]

Bhubaneswar: In what could redefine the sports landscape in Odisha, the country’s biggest hockey stadiums will come up in the city of Rourkela. Announcing this, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Thursday said the new world class hockey stadium in Rourkela will have a sitting capacity for 20,000 spectators. “The stadium along with the allied […]

Sundergarh: At least two persons were killed while twenty other passengers injured after the minibus they were travelling in overturned near Balu Ghat in Rourkela on Sunday. The bus was en-route to Rourkela from Lathikata. The mishap occurred after the vehicle hit the road divider, sources said. Following the incident, one person died on the […]

Bhubaneswar: Opposition parties in Odisha- BJP and Congress- on Tuesday staged demonstrations separately in protest against the brutal murder of two political leaders that took place at Mahanga in Cuttack district on Saturday. The protesters belonging to both the parties demanded the resignation of Law Minister and Mahanga MLA Pratap Jena, alleging his role in […]

Rourkela: A police officer in Odisha’s Sundergarh district was shot with an arrow by illicit liquor mafia on Tuesday. The cop reportedly sustained critical injuries in the arrow attack. Ashok Kumar Behera, In-charge of Tensa police outpost, was on duty near Jindal slum when some unidentified miscreants shot an arrow that went through his torso. […]

Rourkela: At least 10 employees of the Rourkela Steel Palnt (RSP) were taken ill following the leakage of toxic gas at the Coal Chemical Department of the plant on Wednesday morning. The condition of four employees is stated to be critical. All of them have been rushed to the Ispat General Hospital (IGH) here. The […]

Bhubaneswar: The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) on Friday arrested one person from Rourkela in connection with a cheque cloning fraud to the tune of Rs 2.87 crore. The accused, identified as B. Murty Pillai, was arrested basing on the written complaint filed by Anjani Kumar Singh Azad, Chief Manager of Bank of India, Rourkela Branch. […]

Kamakhyanagar: Around 25 passengers escaped an accident narrowly after a bus in which they were travelling overturned near Alutuma bridge here in Dhenkanal district on the wee hours of Thursday. One of the passengers has sustained injuries and has been admitted to a nearby hospital. The Bus, ‘Sriramji’ carrying around 25 passengers was heading towards […]

Rourkela: While conducting a probe into a suspected tax evasion, the officials of Rourkela Goods and Services Tax (GST) department on Friday intercepted two truck-loads with 25 tonnes of edible oil. Preliminary probe reveals that an oil consignment was reportedly looted from a truck by a group of five armed miscreants after attacking the driver […]

Rourkela: Tension prevailed at Kirei panchayat of Sundergarh district after the severed head of missing Gaon Sathi, Ramesh Singh was recovered on Friday. The severed head of Ramesh was found from a pond near Bhawanipur cold storage unit. Earlier, the cut off arm and a limbless torso was recovered on Thursday. With a hope to […]