Tag: West Bengal

Puri: The Shree Jagannath Temple Administration (SJTA) seized seven mobile phones from visitors on the temple premises here this morning. Police have detained seven persons in this connection. Sources said devotees from West Bengal, Jharkhand and Haryana visited the 12th century shrine this morning. Some servitors caught the visitors with mobile phones and later handed […]

Bhubaneswar: After West Bengal won the Geographical Indication (GI) tag for ‘Banglar Rosogolla’, Odisha is now gearing up to seek a similar tag for its own Rasagola sweet which originated from the State centuries back. MSME Minister Prafulla Samal informed that the government will apply for GI tag for ‘Odishara Rasagolla’ in the next seven […]

Puri: Police on Friday claimed to have busted a major prostitution racket in Puri that mostly engages girls from other parts of the country including West Bengal. Two persons including a hotel manager have been arrested while two girls were rescued by police during a raid on a guest house at Puri market. Addressing a […]

Mayurbhanj: A Public Works Department (PWD) notice board of West Bengal placed near Odisha’s Tukapalasia village under Morada block of Mayurbhanj district has once again brought up a border dispute between Odisha and Bengal. According to information, a PWD notice board of the neighbouring state has been allegedly found placed inside Odisha state border thus […]

Bhubaneswar: Several parts of Odisha and Jharkhand are expected to experience heavy to very heavy rainfall in the next 48 hours as the depression over Gangetic West Bengal has intensified into a deep depression. As per the latest bulletin of Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) issued on Monday, the deep depression is likely to move slowly […]

Balasore: One person was killed while eight others were injured after a Bolero vehicle skidded off the road on NH 60 in Balasore. According to reports, nine persons from Bhadrak Basudevpur were on their way to witness Durga Puja in West Bengal when their vehicle fell off Nidhipanda bridge at Balasore. According to police, the […]

Bhadrak: In a tragic incident, two pedestrians were killed after being hit by a speeding car on NH-5 of the district here on Saturday. According to sources, the incident occurred in the morning when the two street vendors, reportedly residents of West Bengal, were moving along the NH-5 near Chapolia Chhak, when suddenly a speeding […]

Balasore:  In a major breakthrough,  Sahadevkhunta Police in Balasore district today busted a major bike lifting racket and seized as many as 60 stolen bikes after arresting seven accused in this connection. Acting on complaints of frequent bike thefts in various areas in Balasore, the district police had formed a special team led by Sahadevkhunta […]

Bhubaneswar: In a shocking incident, a PhD student has brought sexual harassment charges against a senior professor of Bhubaneswar IIT. Besides, the girl alleged that the professor is mentally torturing her husband who is also a PhD student in the same institute. The girl, hailing from West Bengal, has sent a notice to the Director […]

Balasore: In a major breakthrough, Central Excise and Intelligence and Enforcement Bureau and Balasore unit seized brown sugar weighing around 1kg and arrested a drug peddler Sk Rafik (28) here on Sunday. The crackdown came after OTV in a sting operation had exposed rampant narcotics trade that was flourishing in Balasore district due to unbridled […]

Bhubaneswar:  Bollywood’s chit fund link has now come to the fore with several actors found to have promoted Prayag group that duped hundreds of investors in West Bengal. From Shah Rukh Khan to Soha Ali Khan, several actors had promoted Prayag group’s ventures. According to reports, Shahrukh Khan had endorsed the Rs 1,000 crore film […]

Bhubaneswar: Thanks to an unbridled nexus between dealers and corrupt officials, illicit narcotics trade is now flourishing in Odisha’s Balasore district with ‘Brown sugar’, a crude form of heroin being the easiest commodity to be available in the open market here. The synthetic drug is being smuggled into Balasore by several peddlers from neighbouring West […]

New Delhi: BJP president Amit Shah is scheduled to begin a 15-day ‘Vistaar Yatra’ (party expansion tour) covering five states including Odisha, Telangana, Gujarat and Lakshadweep from today from Naxalbari in West Bengal. Informing newsmen about Shah’s plans at the saffron party headquarters in New Delhi, Union Minister Smriti Irani said 3.68 lakh BJP workers […]

Puri: Coming down heavily on the BJP, West Bengal Chief Minister and the All India Trinamool Congress party’s chief Mamata Banerjee today alleged the saffron party is indulging in ‘divisive’ politics. Talking to newsmen at the Circuit House in Puri where she is stationed since last evening while on a three-day Odisha visit, Mamata said, […]

Bhubaneswar: A member of an interstate medicine robbery gang was nabbed by the Commissionerate Police at Ruchika Market in the Capital city today. The arrested accused has been identified as Sonu Panda. During interrogation Sonu revealed about a medicine godown in a rented house at Ruchika Market from where they were operating. The police recovered […]