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Kendrapara: At least seven persons, including five women, all are daily wagers, were killed and 11 persons sustained serious injuries on Wednesday early morning when a Tata Magic van carrying them collided head on with a truck near Chandol police outpost in the district. The van which was carrying about 18 persons, met with the […]

Sambalpur: The vigilance sleuths on Tuesday arrested a village-level-worker (VLW)-cum-panchyat executive officer of Raxa gram panchyat under Ulunda block in Subarnapur district on the charges taking bribe for ensuring releasing of Indira Awas Yojana (IAY) installment. The accused Susil Kumar Bhoi was caught red handed in his office by the vigilance sleuths of Sambalpur division […]

Bhubaneswar: Eco Savers Youth Network, Bhubaneswar Unit, an initiative of People’s Cultural Centre  (PECUC) and SOS village, Khandagiri observed the World Earth Day at SOS village campus creating awareness among people especially children and clean campus activity on Tuesday. Participating in the occasion Network leader Sushree Shailani Suman laid emphasis on three ‘R’ i.e. Reduce, […]

Jajpur: A 16-year-old girl was allegedly raped by temple priest on Monday noon in the premises of Madhukeshari temple in Chakoda village under Dharmasala police station in Jajpur district in Odisha. According to Dharmasala police station IIC Sudrashan Dah, the victim had gone to Madhukeshari temple in Chakoda village to collect prasad when the temple […]

Bhubaneswar: Claiming that nearly 17 per cent voters under Bhubaneswar Assembly constituency were deprived from casting their voting in the recently concluded Lok Sabha and Assembly elections, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Sunday demanded re-polling at all 214 booths soon. “Nobody wants to go to the root of poor polling in the capital city. […]

Bhubaneswar: The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of the Odisha Crime Branch (CB) police on Saturday sought permission of the State Government to confiscate the properties of two chit fund companies Green Ray and Astha International who have allegedly duped lakhs of investors in Odisha.    The two companies which are part of the grand multi-crore […]

Bhubaneswar: One miscreant was critically injured in police encounter here at Hotel Swagat on Saturday evening.  The police managed to nab six of his associates and interrogating them, sources said. A mouser and six rounds of bullets were seized from their possession.     Police had to resort to firing when a Quick Action Team […]

Bhubaneswar: Nearly 1,300 eunuchs residing here near Vani Vihar exercised their franchises in the Lok Sabha and Assembly elections held on Thursday in Odisha. The Election Commission of India (ECI) had provided them voter identity cards in the ‘Others’ category two years ago.   The eunuchs had cast their votes in the recently concluded Bhubaneswar […]

141 crorepatis in Odisha Bhubaneswar: Out of the total 747 candidates in the fray for the second phase elections in 77 Assembly constituencies in Odisha due on April 17, as many as 186 candidates have declared that they have declared criminal cases against them. Of them, 144 candidates have declared serious criminal charges against them […]

Pinaki Mishra of BJD tops list with Rs 137 crore 20 face criminal charges Bhubaneswar: As many as 29 candidates among the 98 nominees contesting the 11 Lok Sabha constituencies in the phase two polls are crorepatis. According to an analysis report which was released by the Odisha Election Watch (OEW) and Association for Democratic […]