Tag: Odisha

Senior Biju Janata Dal (BJD) leader and Rajya Sabha MP Debasish Samantray on Monday resigned from the primary membership of the party. He was considered as a close aide of Naveen Patnaik.

Doctors at the CHC later referred four seriously injured persons to MKCG Medical College and Hospital, Berhampur, as their conditions deteriorated.

Bhubaneswar: In a significant breakthrough, the police on Monday cracked the sensational murder case of a youth who was shot dead in Odisha’s Jajpur district on April 6, arresting five persons, including the deceased’s wife, informed Yashpratap Shrimal, Superintendent of Police, Jajpur district. The accused were identified as the deceased Soumya Sagar Samal’s wife, Subhasree.

Bhubaneswar: A scuffle broke out between Biju Janata Dal MLAs and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Odisha amid the voting for Rajya Sabha polls. BJD has accused BJP of indulging “in horse-trading” in the Rajya Sabha polls. “BJP indulged in horse trading and bought some BJD MLAs to get their votes. When BJD MLAs opposed.

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) R.S. Gopalan, on Friday, launched a citizen awareness initiative on the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls and appealed to voters in the state, especially those in urban areas, to verify their details in the 2002 electoral rolls. Speaking during a press conference held here, Gopalan.

Five police personnel were killed and three injured when a trailer collided with a police vehicle near Jharsuguda Sadar Police Station on NH 49.

Bhubaneswar:  Lakhs of devotees gathered at Shiva temples across Odisha to have the darshan of Lord Shiva and witness the sacred late-night ritual of raising the Mahadeep (great lamp) atop temple structures on the occasion of Maha Shivaratri on Sunday.  Prominent Shiva temples in the state, including the 11th-century Lingaraj Temple in Bhubaneswar, Loknath Temple.

Gajapati district: A seven-year-old girl has been allegedly sexually assaulted by another minor boy in the Chandragiri outpost area under Mohana police station in Odisha’s Gajapati district, according to the police. The rape case has been registered under appropriate sections of BNS and POCSO in Gajapati district, with the accused minor boy confessing to the.

The statewide bandh called by the Naba Nirman Krushak Sangathan (NNKS) on Wednesday over multiple issues had a partial impact on normal life in Odisha.

During the clash, several vehicles, including an e-car, scooters and a pickup van, were damaged, and some shops were vandalised and set on fire