Bhubaneswar: A Special Vigilance Court here Friday found former IAS officer Vinod Kumar, the ex-managing director of Odisha Rural Housing Development Corporation (ORHDC), and five others guilty in a housing scam case. This was Kumar’s 12th conviction in corruption cases linked to the ORHDC scam,...
Bhubaneswar: Housing and Urban Development (H&UD) Minister Krushna Chandra Mahapatra inaugurated ‘Srujan’, a modern canteen operated by the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) at Kharavela Bhawan here Friday. Speaking on the occasion, Mahapatra said the canteen would significantly benefit over 700 employees working...
Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi Friday congratulated tribal girl Jyotsna Sabar on being conferred the Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar by President Droupadi Murmu. Sabar, a native of Gajapati district, created a youth Asian record at the Asian Youth Weightlifting Championships held in...
Keonjhar: Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi Friday said that 15 lakh hectares of land will be irrigated during the next three years in the state. Majhi said this while addressing farmers in his home district, Keonjhar, after inaugurating the paddy procurement process. He also...
Phulbani: A day after neutralising four Maoists, including Ganesh Uike (69), who carried a Rs 1.2 crore bounty on his head, Odisha Police Friday intensified operations in Kandhamal district, hoping to arrest more ultras. Additional DGP (anti-naxal operations) Sanjeeb Panda said security forces were carrying...
Bhubaneswar: Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar is scheduled to meet a section of booth-level officers (BLOs) here December 29 during his three-day tour to Odisha beginning Saturday, official sources said. Though the agenda of the CEC's meeting with BLOs has not been announced, sources Friday...
Bhubaneswar: Several parts of Odisha have been reeling under cold wave conditions with mercury plummeting to below 10 degrees Celsius at 11 places Friday. Koraput town in south Odisha was the coldest place in the state for the day with 4.8 degrees Celsius, while the...
Bhubaneswar: The Congress Friday demanded complete withdrawal of additional security deposits (ASD) imposed on domestic power consumers of Odisha and free electricity for agricultural purposes. Addressing a press conference, Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC) president Bhakta Charan Das also urged the state government to provide...
Bhadrak: A minor girl was allegedly raped by a 26-year-old man in her home in Odisha's Bhadrak district, following which she attempted suicide by consuming poison and is now hospitalised in a critical condition, the police said Friday. The incident came to light amid widespread...
Baripada: Two brothers drowned while bathing at a waterfall near Similipal National Park in Odisha's Mayurbhanj district Friday, police said. The victims were identified as Satyabrata (23) and Abhishek Nayak (17) from Bhadrak district. The incident occurred at Sitakund, a popular tourist and picnic spot...
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