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Rasgovindpur, (Mayurbhanj): A memorial service was held at the Amarda Road Airstrip on Friday for the 14 airmen who had died in a crash here on the July 26, 1945. War historian Anil Dhir, Gandhian Aditya Patnaik, social activist Dr Biswajit Mohanty, Wing Commander Sishir Arora from the Indian Air Force and school children paid […]
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Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Friday launched the revamped and tourist friendly website of Odisha Tourism. Now, using www.odishatourism.gov.in, stakeholders can reach out tourists and business partners from far corners of the world. Launching the website, the Chief Minister said, “Tourism is a sustainable route to maximise employment for youth and the rejuvenated platform […]
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Angul: A Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) court on Friday awarded death sentence to a man after convicting him for rape and murder of a 12-year-old girl in Angul on January 20. Srinibas Dehruy alias Anam raped the Class-VII girl and stoned her to death after kidnapping her near Lingarajodi nullah of Kangula […]
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Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Friday handed over the appointment letters to at least 500 newly recruited Assistant Section Officers (ASOs), including 166 women officers and called upon for citizen-centric governance. The ceremony was organized at Rabindra Mandap here. The newly recruited officials will be engaged in the State Secretariat. They have been selected […]
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Malkangiri: Malkangiri police has arrested an inter-State cyber criminal for his alleged involvement in several cyber crime related cases in the State. A special team of the Cyber Cell led by Inspector SS Tripathy on Wednesday arrested Supravat Mohapatra (23) of Hiranyapada village under Satyabadi in Puri district. He was involved in at least six […]
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Cuttack: Three days after being granted bail by the Orissa High Court (HC) in a four-year-old case of assaulting and cheating a woman and her daughter in Odisha’s Kendrapara district, self-styled godman Sarathi Baba alias Santosh Roul finally walked out of Choudwar Circle Jail on Thursday. The controversial godman was released after he executed bail […]
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Nayagarh: Commissioner of Railway Safety (CRS), South Eastern Circle (Kolkata) AK Rai on Thursday inspected the newly laid 12km long Broad Gauge Line from Nayagarh Town to Mahipur Railway Station of the ongoing 289 km long Khurda Road-Balangir Rail line project. East Coast Railway (ECoR) Principal Chief Engineer Narottam Singh Uikey also accompanied the CRS. […]
Continue ReadingBhubaneswar: A fortnight after Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik wrote to Union Tourism and Culture Minister Prahalad Singh Patel to include two tourist places of importance from Odidha in the list of Iconic Tourist Sites of the Centre, Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has also written to Patel requesting latter’s intervention for inclusion of Sun Temple in […]
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Lanjigarh: Vedanta Ltd Lanjigarh unit organised a free mega medical camp at Harekrushnapur in Lanjigarh on Wednesday here. A total of 302 villagers benefited from this noble initiative. With the aim to reach out and deliver basic medical care to the needy people, the medical camp was conducted with the assistance of Vedanta Hospital. A […]
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Patkura: The ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) on Wednesday won the Patkura Assembly constituency in Kendrapara district defeating BJP, the main opposition force in Odisha. The victory in Patkura took BJD’s tally in the 147-member Odisha Assembly to 113. BJD candidate Sabitri Agarwal defeated BJP’s Bijoy Mohapatra, the principal bête noire of Chief Minister and […]
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