Balangir: Grieving family members and local residents of two road accident victims staged a road blockade by placing the bodies of the deceased at the junction of national highways 26 and 59 at Belgaon in Balangir district on Tuesday. A hit-and-run accident claimed the lives of two youths on NH-59 on the Chormara Bridge near…
The fare hike comes amid mounting pressure from private bus operators, who recently gave the govt a 10-day ultimatum demanding Bhubaneswar: Days after the All Odisha Bus Owners’ Association (AOBOA) threatened to suspend bus services over rising operational costs, the state govt on Tuesday announced a hike in passenger fares for private stage carriage buses…
Bhubaneswar: The appointments committee of the Cabinet has approved the appointment of Binod Kumar Patro, professor of community medicine, AIIMS, Bhubaneswar, to the post of director, National Institute of Health & Family Welfare (NIHFW), New Delhi on a deputation basis. He will hold the post for five years with effect from the date of assumption…
Bhubaneswar: While Zeenat giving birth is a rare success of a much-watched inter-state tiger translocation project, the big question now is survival of the cubs.Zeenat, who looks quite possessive and apprehensive, has been shifting bases, apparently to save the cubs from other male tigers and predators. The cubs are around three weeks old, Similipal officials…
Bhubaneswar: Four youths, two of them students of a private educational institution in the city, were arrested on Tuesday for allegedly kidnapping a male nursing student of the same college for ransom.“The motive behind the crime was a financial dispute between the victim Biswajit Pradhan (22), a fourth year BSc nursing student of SOA University,…
Kendrapada: Being visually impaired could not stop Subham Soumen Senapati (28), a visually-impaired man of Sitalapatana village in Kendrapada district’s Garadpur block from cracking the Odisha Civil Services Examination, the results of which were declared recently. He secured 164 rank in his 4th attempt and will be getting OAS. In 2015, Sanyasi Behera was the…
Cuttack: A session’s court in Cuttack has ordered a fresh trial in a high-value cyber fraud case involving a Nigerian national who is accused of allegedly cheating a Cuttack woman of Rs 28.67 lakh, holding that the acquittal was passed without examination of key prosecution witnesses essential for a fair judgment.Second additional sessions judge Priyaranjan…
Berhampur: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Tuesday sought an action taken report (ATR) on the alleged custodial death of a 32-year-old man in Kabisurya Nagar police station in Ganjam district from the district administration. The NHRC has directed the district magistrate and SP (Ganjam) to submit the report within three weeks of the…
Students at work at a laboratory at FM University in Balasore Bhubaneswar: To document and preserve India’s traditional knowledge systems, the Indian Knowledge Systems (IKS) division under the Union ministry of education has approved a research project of Fakir Mohan University, Balasore, focusing on the ethnozoological practices of tribal communities in the state. Students at…
Kendrapada: Bhitarkanika National Park, the country’s second-largest mangrove forest after the Sundarbans, is home to seven species of kingfishers thriving in its vast wetland ecosystem, said noted ornithologist Pramod Kumar Dhal (65). “India has 12 species of kingfishers. In my four decades of research, I have recorded seven species in Bhitarkanika,” said Dhal, who has…
