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Man sentenced to life for murder

Angul: Angul District and Sessions Court Monday sentenced Chaturbhuj Majhi to life imprisonment after convicting him in a murder case. The incident took place November 4, 2024, at Changudia village under the jurisdiction of Chhendipada PS in Angul district. The accused brutally murdered his relative,...

Maa majhighariani temple

Majhighariani hundis yield Rs 1.05cr, 30 gm gold

Rayagada: All the nine hundis (donation boxes) of Maa Majhighariani temple, the presiding deity of this district, were opened Monday and counted in the presence of a magistrate and police officials, temple authorities said. During the counting, cash amounting to Rs 1,05,52,845, along with 30...

Two get life term for 2002 murder

Life term for accused in Subhasmita murder case

Chhatrapur: A local court Monday sentenced a man to life imprisonment for the murder of his girlfriend in the 2021 Subhasmita case. Additional District Judicial Magistrate (ADJM) Pradeep Kumar Samal convicted Krushna Chandra Sahu for burning his girlfriend, Subhasmita Khadanga, alive inside an abandoned house...

IIM-Sambalpur

IIM-Sambalpur partners with National SC-ST Hub

Bhubaneswar/Sambalpur: The 6-day Business Accelerator Program for SC-ST entrepreneurs in collaboration with the National SC-ST Hub, Ministry of MSME, GOI, kicked off at IIM Sambalpur Monday. It will continue till 24th January. The objective of this programme is to strengthen the entrepreneurship ecosystem by building...

Kujang

JSW accused of illegally extracting groundwater

Kujang: Even as the government has imposed curbs on groundwater extraction to conserve the fast-depleting resource, allegations have surfaced that JSW is illegally drawing large quantities of groundwater at its under-construction steel plant in the Dhinkia-Charidesh area of Ersama block in Jagatsinghpur district. Residents of...

Angul: 30 gm brown sugar, Rs 26 Lakh seized

Angul: A joint team of the Special Squad and Angul Town police raided a four-storied building in Hatishala pada area of the town and seized 30 gram of brown sugar and around Rs 26 lakh from the house Monday. Police detained Manas Nayak and Rajesh...

Road accidents

17 injured as auto-rickshaw falls into ghat in Odisha

Berhampur: At least 17 people, including eight children and three women, were injured after an auto-rickshaw fell nearly 10 feet down a slope in Odisha's Gajapati district Monday, police said. The accident occurred near Jarau ghat under the Mohana police limits, when the vehicle hit...

Newborn baby

Newborn girl found dead in Bhadrak hospital washroom

Bhadrak: A newborn girl was found abandoned in a washroom at Bhadrak District Headquarter Hospital (DHH), and was later declared dead, officials said Monday. The incident took place in the gynaecology ward of the Bhadrak District Headquarter Hospital, where an unidentified woman was suspected of...

 

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