Tag: Rourkela

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 […]

Rourkela: The steel city has once again come to limelight for wrong reasons after a Papad seller in Balughat area was asked to repay a sum of more than Rs 13 Lakh by the Goods & Services Tax authorities on Friday on charges of evading taxes. As per reports, Jhunu Pradhan, who sells Papads, Lentil […]

Bhubaneswar: Various awareness events including bike rally, female two-wheeler rider rally, meetings on road safety were held across Odisha to mark the beginning of National Road Safety Month today. The National Road Safety Week is usually observed from January 11 to 17 every year but this year, the Ministry of Transport and Highways have decided […]

Rourkela: The construction works for the proposed world-class hockey stadium in Rourkela will commence in the month of April, informed Odisha Chief Secretary Suresh Mohapatra on Tuesday. Mohapatra along with the 5T secretary today reviewed the proposed stadium which will come up in Biju Patnaik University of Technology (BPUT) campus in Rourkela and is touted […]

Rourkela: A major sex racket which was operating from an abandoned quarters in Sector-13 of the steel city in Odisha’s Sundergarh district was busted on Wednesday. Acting on a tip-off regarding illegal fresh trade, a team of Sector-15 police conducted a raid on the abandoned house in Rourkela and apprehended four persons from the spot. […]

Rourkela: Who would have thought that a State where people touch the snow only in dreams, will produce a snow-girl one day! As exciting as it may sound, Ranjita Behera from steel city Rourkela will become the first person from Odisha to represent the State in Snow Skiing Skier event in the upcoming Khelo India […]

Rourkela: The joy of Bhagyashree Sahu, an Odia engineering girl-turned a Pattachitra artist, knew no bound when Prime Minister Narendra Modi applauded her creations in his radio talk ‘Mann Ki Baat’ on Sunday. Bhagyashree, a resident of Sector-19 in the Steel City, has mastered in creating Pattachitra on various themes using soft stones. She used […]

Bhubaneswar: Severe winter chill has made a comeback in Odisha with a steady dip in the night temperatures after a few days of warm weather. As per the prediction of weather department, the condition is likely to prevail for some more days. The north westerly/ northerly dry and cold wind at lower level penetrating over […]

Rourkela: A forester and forest guard were put under suspension by the department in connection with the death of two elephants reportedly in a goods train mishap on February 4. The two suspended officials are Bisra Range forester Radha Gobinda Bahidar and Jareikela forest guard Gurudeb Bhoi. According to sources, the Forest department has also […]

Rourkela: In shocking incident, a business man was killed in attack by unidentified miscreants near Deluxe Hotel lane in the city on Wednesday. The deceased identified as Sajjan Mittal who is a city-based hotelier faced the murderous attack late last night in front of his residence. The miscreants fled the spot soon after committing the […]

Rourkela: Three minor boys reportedly died of drowning while taking bath in Koel River near Jhirpani picnic spot in Rourkela on Wednesday. The bodies of the three boys were fished out from the river near Bhattapada ghat by fire services personnel. Their identities have not been ascertained yet. According to sources, the trio aged below […]

Rourkela: Hundreds of BJP workers have been taken into preventive custody following a scuffle with police while the saffron party members protested CM Naveen Patnaik‘s visit to Rourkela on Tuesday. The party workers faced off with the police near Jubilee park in Sector-8 area while they took out a rally to oppose the CM’s tour. […]

Rourkela: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Tuesday laid the foundation stone for the country’s biggest hockey stadium and named it after the legendary freedom fighter ‘Birsa Munda’. The stadium will be the venue for the Hockey World Cup, 2023. Addressing a function in the sidelines of the foundation lying ceremony, Patnaik said, “Sundergarh, which has […]

Rourkela: A police sub-inspector (PSI) from the Udit Nagar police station in the city was suspended from duty on Wednesday for allegedly torturing a minor boy who he had picked up for questioning in connection with a mobile theft case. According to reports, the minor, who is an orphan and lives with his grandmother in […]