Jajpur: Odisha government has placed a woman sarpanch in Jajpur district under suspension on the charge of misappropriating public money, an official order said Thursday. It is alleged that Sanjukta Mohanty, Sarpanch of Gramnandipur gram panchayat under Dasarathapur block, embezzled government funds of Rs 11,72,500,...
Kathmandu/Bhubaneswar: The last rites of Prakriti Lamsal, the Nepali student who died by “suicide” in her hostel at KIIT University, were performed in Bhairawa, Nepal, Thursday. Mentionably, Lamsal, a 20-year-old third-year B.Tech student, was found hanging in her hostel room Sunday. Following her death, her...
Baripada: A court in Odisha's Mayurbhanj district Thursday sentenced a 35-year-old man to imprisonment for 10 years for raping a disabled woman in 2022. Mayurbhanj district additional sessions judge, Satyanarayan Patra also imposed a fine of Rs 50,000 on the convict Bikash Chandra Mohapatra. The...
Bhubaneswar: Days after the unnatural death of an engineering student from Nepal and subsequent attacks of students from the neighbouring country, Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT) founder Achyuta Samanta Thursday tendered an apology to the parents of the Nepalese pupils and urged all those...
Dubai: Shubman Gill was more artisan than artist en route to his eighth ODI hundred after Mohammed Shami's satisfying five-wicket haul, propelling India to a workmanlike six-wicket win over Bangladesh in their Champions Trophy opener here Thursday. Gill's unbeaten innings (101, 129b, 9x4. 2x6) had...
Bhubaneswar: Newly appointed Odisha Congress president Bhakta Charan Das Thursday said that the state is going to witness a "big political revolution", whose foundation was laid now. The Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC) led by Das took out a 60-km Sankalp Padayatra from Bhubaneswar to...
Bhubaneswar: Odisha government has decided to set up electric vehicle (EV) charging stations at 100 places in the first phase, the Assembly was informed Thursday. Commerce and Transport Minister Bibhuti Bhusan Jena said 21 charging stations would be established in Bhubaneswar, 38 in various regional...
Bhubaneswar: In an apparent dig at VK Pandian, who was a close aide of former Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, state Revenue and Disaster Management Minister Suresh Pujari Thursday said that the '5T' had announced the construction of 52 new cyclone shelters without sufficient funds...
Sambalpur: Odisha Police Thursday arrested a 35-year-old man for allegedly assaulting a female postgraduate student in Sambalpur district, an officer said. The seriously injured woman is a postgraduate library science student of a university and a resident of Burla. The woman was regularly in contact...
Bhubaneswar: With the India Meteorological Department (IMD) forecasting thunderstorms and lighting in Odisha for three days till Sunday, the Odisha government put at least 25 districts under alert. Light to moderate rainfall took place Thursday morning in many places, including Bhubaneswar and in the districts...
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