A few surrendered Maoists When Pramod Kumar Satpathy, an assistant commandant of the Odisha police’s Special Operations Group (SOG) — a specialized anti-Naxal force — was conferred the Ashok Chakra posthumously on Oct 14, 2018, the honour carried both immense pride and immeasurable sorrow for his family. Satpathy and 13 other security personnel had laid…
Photo for representational purpose Bhubaneswar: Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation has decided to operate a compressed biogas (CBG) plant at Nayapalli, aiming at reducing waste load sharply at the city’s Temporary Transfer Station (TTS) and micro composting centres.While the TTS handles around 470 tonnes of waste daily and processes it through different methods, micro composting centres convert…
Bhubaneswar: There will be no revenue loss for Bhubaneswar-headquartered East Coast Railway (ECoR) because of the transfer of Ichchapuram-Palasa section from Khurda Road railway division to the proposed Visakhapatnam division of South Coast Railway (SCoR), the chief minister’s office (CMO) said on Friday. On the other hand, new Rayagada railway division has been sanctioned, which…
CM Mohan Charan Majhi said he had completed his self-enumeration Bhubaneswar: The first phase of Census 2027 — house listing and housing census — will commence across all 30 districts of Odisha from April 16, chief minister Mohan Charan Majhi announced on Friday, urging people to participate in the national exercise actively.In a statement, the…
Kendrapada: The body of a seven-year-old girl, who had gone missing on Wednesday, from her village under Rajnagar police station in Kendrapada district was found from a canal near the village. Locals noticed the body floating in the river and informed police. Police sent it to the government hospital at Kendrapada for autopsy. “After getting…
Bhubaneswar: Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) commissioner Chanchal Rana on Friday wrote to Census director Nikhil Pawan Kalyan, requesting his permission to proceed with appropriate punishment against 436 teachers, who didn’t turn up for training for the Census exercise.The teachers data was taken from school and mass education department, and they were personally contacted to join…
Berhampur: Police arrested five persons from Bhubaneswar for allegedly throwing petrol bombs at a house at Chikiti Pentho in Ganjam district’s K.Nuagaon police station limits four days ago, after the owner denied to comply with their demand for money, police said on Friday. Though no one was hurt due to the blasting of the bombs,…
Rourkela: A woman assistant sub-inspector of police and two police constables of Chhend police station were suspended by Rourkela SP Nitesh Wadhwani for negligence in duty after a theft accused fled from police custody, said M R Pradhan, sub-divisional police officer, Panposh. Source link
Bhubaneswar: The city police on Friday arrested eight people, including four women, on charges of extorting money from various educational institutions.According to police, the accused are associated with a private money recovery agency.Chandrasekharpur police said the accused had gathered outside the main gate of a private college on Thursday, creating chaos and obstruction, allegedly shouting…
Rain/thunderstorm likely in Odisha Bhubaneswar: India Meteorological Department (IMD), Bhubaneswar, has issued yellow warning for thunderstorm, accompanied with lightning and gusty surface wind speed reaching 40-50kmph, in some districts till April 8. Bhubaneswar on Friday received rain with thunderstorm for around 20 minutes in the afternoon, bringing relief from heat. The capital city recorded a…
