Crorepati Odisha woman Constable in Vigilance net

Cuttack, Aug 2: Vigilance sleuths on Tuesday conducted simultaneous search on houses and office of Sambalpur district’s Bareipali police outpost Constable Jayanti Sahoo and detected assets worth Rs 1,43,63,966 in her and her family members’ names. Separate teams of the anti-corruption wing searched the residential house of the woman Constable at Sambalpur Town, parental house […]

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Psychologist to counsel wonder boy Budhia to return to hostel

Bhubaneswar, Aug 1: Even as wonder boy Budhia Singh left for Delhi for promotion of a movie ‘Budhia Singh, Born to Run,’ a Hindi movie directed by Soumendra Padhi, the Khordha Child Welfare Committee (CWC) on Monday engaged psychologist Prof UN Dash to counsel him to return to the hostel. The development came after CWC […]

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SOG jawan dies during practice run

Bhubaneswar, Aug 1: Laxminarayan Pradhan, a jawan of the Special Operation Group (SOG), died of during a practice run on the SOG camp ground at Chandaka under Nandankanan police station on Monday morning. Inspector General of Police (Operation) Soumendra Pridarshi said Pradhan fainted during the regular practice run. After preliminary treatment he was rushed to […]

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Advanced technology can effectively deal with cancer: Experts

Bhubaneswar, Aug 1:  Experts on oncology have said that advanced technology and improved treatment methods have opened the door to effectively deal with the scourge of cancer and the condition does not mean certain death anymore. “Patients with lung cancer who lived barely for a year after detection in the 1990s’ can now be provided […]

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Cops arrest youth for man’s murder with CCTV footage’s help

Bhubaneswar, July 31: Commissionerate Police on Sunday arrested the accused who allegedly beat a youth to death and leaving another seriously injured in IRC Village under Nayapalli police station here late on Saturday evening.  A team of police officials nabbed Simanchal Jena from Ganapati Nagar on Sunday evening. Thanks to the use of CCTV camera […]

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AT chief Pradip Sethi attempts suicide by slitting wrist in jail, safe

Bhubaneswar, July 31: Pradip Sethi, chairman-cum-managing-director of tainted Artha Tatwa (AT) Group, a money collection company, on Saturday evening attempted to commit suicide by slitting his wrist at the Jharpada Speical Jail here but the timely action taken by the jail authorities saved his life. Sethi, who is lodged at the jail as an undertrial […]

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Azure to set up country’s first MW scale solar grid in Odisha

Bhubaneswar July 30: The Green Energy Development Corporation of Odisha and the Central Electricity Supply Utility of Odisha on Saturday signed a 25 year Project Implementation Agreement with Azure Power Mercury Private Ltd, to develop the country’s first grid connected  MW scale roof-top solar project on net metering basis. This project, with a minimum capacity […]

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2 more aides of D brothers arrested

Cuttack, July 30: Commissionerate Police have arrested two more aides of arrested dreaded criminal brothers, Sushil Dhalsamanta and Sushant Dhalsamant on Friday from Kolkata. The fresh arrest came almost six months after the arrest of the two mafia siblings on January 29. Commissioner of Police Yogesh Bahadur Khurania told reporters here that Lipuna alias Debadutta […]

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Union PNG Minister talks to nodal officers on Ujjwala Yojna

New Delhi, July 30: Union Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister (PNG) Dharmendra Pradhan on Saturday convened a meeting with all District Nodal Officers (DNOs) of eastern States and north eastern States for successful implementation of Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojna (PMUY) under which LPG connections are given to women of BPL households. Nearly 250 DNOs, senior […]

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