In a tragic incident, a Plus-3 girl student was burnt to death at her house in Bhaludunguri village under Bonai Police limits of Sundargarh district on Monday night (Dec 13). The deceased Sapneshwari Munda was reportedly a meritorious student of a college at Lahunipada. As per reports, late on Monday night, the girl was heading into her room holding a kerosene lamp.
A fire broke out in a hotel situated close to a mall in Rourkela. The fire was reportedly caused due to the explosion of LPG cylinder. However, no casualties have been reported in the mishap.
A major mishap was averted after a truck carrying LPG cylinders near Rasrajpur on Sambalpur-Rourkela Biju Expressway under Sundergarh Sadar police limits caught fire on Saturday.
Hockey star Birendra Lakra was welcomed with much pomp and show at his native village in Sundergarh district on Monday. Birendra Lakra hails from Lachada village in Gurundia block of the district.
This is Santosh Majhi, a former national hockey player from Lulkidihi village of Odisha’s Sundergarh district is now working in a fishing unit as a daily wage labourer in Goa to make ends meet. Santosh has played several junior and senior level national matches including two national hockey championships.
Sundergarh: The administration of Sundargarh, which is one of the worst affected district in the second wave of the Covid pandemic has decided to engage doctors practicing at private hospitals…
Sundergarh: A visually impaired woman teacher at Bhedavahal Primary School in the district, Tapeswari Panda who was given forced retirement on February 17 has been reinstated by the government. The development was informed by School and Mass Education Minister Samir Ranjan Dash. “I had directed a departmental inquiry on media reports that she had turned […]
Wrapped in a simple cotton saree with an ordinary pair of sleepers and a jhola (cotton bag) hanging from her shoulders, 54 years old Anna Kujur from the tribal Sunajor (Kuten Pain) village of Sundergarh district has been blazing the trail of awareness among tribals on Forest Right Act (FRA). She has helped over 30,000 […]
Sundergarh: Rohit Verma, son of a leading jeweller in the town was shot dead by unidentified miscreants in-front of his shop near Badagaon bus terminal in Sundergarh district on Monday. Another person, who tried to save Verma, has been critically wounded after he came under fire as the miscreants took away a bag containing gold […]
Sundergarh: Tension prevailed in Jhiripani area when local people including the family members of a youth sat on dharna after placing his body in front of the local police station in the district on Sunday. They demanded immediate action against the accused, who had allegedly trashed the youth a couple of days ago resulting in […]
Sundergarh: Uninturrupted and dedicated services for long years may be a criterion for a government employee to get a cushy promotion. But, in the case of Tapeswari Panda, a teacher at Bhedavahal Primary School in Sundegarh, things happend just the opposite. After 27 years of seamless services in her academic carrier, Panda has been given […]
Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Tuesday laid the foundation stone for a world-class hockey stadium in Rourkela and announced several other projects worth Rs 5,000 crore eyeing a total transformation of Sundergarh district. Though the State government claimed that such welfare projects will benefit people and improve infrastructure and facilities in the district, […]
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: The Bureau of Civil Aviation Security DG, Usha Padhee on Monday informed that flight operations from Rourkela Airport will begin soon. The announcement came after a team of the Civil Aviation Ministry led by Usha Padhee visited the airstrip in Rourkela on Monday. Following her visit, a high-level meeting was held at the airport […]