A man, namely Sheikh Bhalu on Saturday in Saidabad area of Bhadrak district thrashed his brother-in-law (Sakam Khan) to death after deceased objected to the Bhalu’s fifth marriage, police told. According to police, earlier, Bhalu had married four wives and had already divorced all of them. He recently married another[Read More…]
The recent wave of MeToo in India which was triggered by actress Tanushree Dutta calling out Bollywood actor Nana Patekar and director Vivek Agnihotri of inappropriate behaviour in two separate incidents has gathered steam as prominent men across industries are being named for sexual harassment. Women from different industries have[Read More…]
In a shocking incident on Tuesday in Patlipanka village of Kendrapara district, a family of four including a couple and their two minor daughters suffered critical injuries after unidentified goons hurled acid on them at night. According to reports, four members of the family went to sleep after dinner and[Read More…]
Bhubaneswar, Oct 11 (IANS) Very severe cyclonic storm Titli which is being referred to as a Category 2 hurricane, made landfall in Odisha’s Gopalpur on Thursday with surface winds reaching 126 kmph, the Met said. There has been no casualty yet. Heavy rains were dumped in at least eight districts[Read More…]
In a shocking incident, a woman was branded with a hot iron rod in Bhubaneswar, when she rejected to have a physical relationship with her husband’s friend. As per the reports, recently, husband of victim consumed liquor with one of his friends at home. Further, he told his wife to[Read More…]
Odisha government ruling party Biju Janata Dal (BJD) Member of legislative assembly from Kantabanji, Haji Mohammad Ayub Khan misbehaves with elderly women in a video viral on social media. Meet Odisha MLA of Kantabanji, Bolangir district, Haji Mohammad Ayub Khan. This is how they treat with people who don’t vote[Read More…]
Bhubaneswar, Oct 3 (IANS) Tension prevailed on Wednesday at Jagannath temple in Puri as a 12-hour dawn-to-dusk shutdown to protest against the introduction of a queue system for ‘darshan’ turned violent. An irate mob attempted to barge into the 12th-century shrine, removed the barricades erected near the temple and ransacked[Read More…]
Bhubaneswar: The Congress on Monday finalised the names of 44 candidates for Assembly polls scheduled in Odisha in 2019. “They have been selected on the basis of winnability factor,” said state Congress President Niranjan Patnaik. The names of all 15 outgoing MLAs have been recommended to get ticket, said Patnaik.[Read More…]
Bhubaneswar: A house committee constituted by the Odisha Assembly on Friday decided to issue notice to journalist Abhijit Iyer Mitra for his alleged derogatory remarks against the state, its culture and the lawmakers. The committee headed by Leader of Opposition Narasingha Mishra decided to issue a notice to Iyer Mitra[Read More…]
There is no denial that technological advancement has helped us in a lot of ways. It has changed the way we communicate, travel, learn and live. Life has been simplified in terms of productivity and education. Drone is again a production of such a technology that is redefining a lot[Read More…]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated an Airport Authority of India’s (AAI) airport in Jharsuguda. With this, Odisha got its second airport on Saturday. This airport is developed under UDAN (Ude Desh ka Aam Naagrik) and will put Odisha on the aviation map. Prime Minister Modi addressed a public rally after[Read More…]
Abhijit Iyer Mitra has been arrested and taken to Nizamuddin police station today on September 20th for making derogatory remarks against Odisha. Iyer is taken to hospital for a medical examination after which he will be produced before Saket court before taken on remand by Odisha police. However, he was[Read More…]
Becoming an inspiration to millions of youth with the disability, this differently-abled champion has mastered the art of Yoga to become a yoga instructor in Odisha. 19-year-old Ramachandra Rajak is deaf and dumb since childhood. He belongs to Goudasahi of Sadar Mahakuma Champua block in Keonjhar district. Apart from Yoga,[Read More…]
Profit is all about supply and demand. India, being a country of festivals still celebrates numbers of festivals every year in all parts of the country. Every time there is a pooja, there will be a pandal and an idol would be established. Neither the demand has not gone down[Read More…]
Bad road in Odisha’s Putagaon takes lives of mother and infant both. A pregnant woman in Malkangiri district died along with her newly born baby on Monday. After she developed labour pain, the family members called an ambulance to take her to the hospital. However, the roads were so bad[Read More…]
The Odisha Assembly on Thursday passed a resolution for setting up a legislative council in the state. Members of Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party staged a walkout opposing the resolution introduced by Parliamentary Affairs Minister Bikram Keshari Arukh. All ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) members present in the House voted in favour of the[Read More…]
Lack of basic facilities including education and healthcare still remains a distant dream for the villagers of Bidarpakhana in Malkangiri district of Odisha. Unavailability of ambulance kills a newborn on Sunday. To utmost disappointment, family members of an expectant mother were forced to carry her on a cot to take[Read More…]
Five people died of asphyxiation inside a septic tank in Odisha’s Rayagada district on Sunday, police said. The incident occurred at Paika Sahi of Durgi village. The victims got into the septic tank to rescue a woman worker who had fallen inside it. However, they fell unconscious inside the tank[Read More…]
Basanti Ho, a 26-year-old woman from Odisha, suffering from Schizophrenia was under captivity of her family from past six years. The patient was rescued on Wednesday by Karanjia Sub-Collector Ashok Purohit and later admitted to Odisha’s Mayurbhanj district headquarter hospital. According to her father, Mangulu Ho, Basanti “starts tearing her clothes,[Read More…]
Malkangiri: In yet another incident of ambulance failure, a patient was once again carried on cot for about four kilometres as the 108 ambulance service failed to reach a village in the tribal-dominated Malkangiri district. The incident was reported from Gajiaguda village under Khairaput block of Malkangiri where Laxman Pangi[Read More…]
As the acting chairperson and lone member Justice B K Mishra retired on Thursday, the Odisha Human Rights Commission has no human face to represent it now. Functioning without a chairperson for the past six years, the rights watchdog till recently had only single member, B.K. Mishra. Justice Mishra has[Read More…]
As many as four kanwariyas were killed after being hit by a train while they were walking on a railway bridge near Panposh in Odisha’s Rourkela city last night. According to reports, seven Bol Bam devotees had come to Rourkela from Chhattisgarh to pour holy water at Vedvyas temple. They were[Read More…]
How did a man, spending his early days on Delhi’s cocktail circuit, defy stereotypes to script an enviable success story that has few parallels in the history of modern Indian politics? What led Naveen Patnaik, who had nothing to do with politics for the first fifty years of his life, become[Read More…]
Bhubaneswar: The Congress in Odisha on Wednesday demanded a CBI probe into alleged corruption in the construction of Gurupriya bridge in Malkangiri district, claiming that around Rs 74 crore were paid fraudulently in excess to the contractor. Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee President Niranjan Patnaik said that the excess payment had[Read More…]
Bhubaneswar: The BJP on Sunday termed the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) government a lollipop government. The state government is a lollipop government. It has failed to create job opportunities during its 19-year rule and youths are roaming unemployed. The state government is giving lollipops to the youths through Biju Yuva[Read More…]