Koraput: District officials seized seven tractors involved in illegal sand extraction and transportation in Gunupur sub-division of Rayagada district on Saturday and fined the offenders. The early morning raid was led by Gunupur sub-collector Dudhal Abhishek Dilip along with officials of revenue and mining departments. According to the sub-collector, the vehicles were operating with invalid…
Koraput: Hours after appearing for their ongoing Class X board examinations, three Class X students of Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya (JNV) in Koraput drowned in the backwaters of Kolab reservoir near their school on Saturday afternoon. The deceased have been identified as Lingaraj Khil (16), Swastik (15) and Om Prakash (16).It is suspected that the boys…
Kendrapada: Betel leaf (paan) farmers in the coastal belts of Jagatsinghpur and neighbouring districts are facing a setback after exports to West Asian markets came to a sudden halt due to the ongoing US-Iran war.“Nations such as Iran, Iraq, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Kuwait have been major buyers of Indian paan. Exporters in…
Koraput: A seven-year-old boy, Rushi Gantayat, was allegedly kidnapped and brutally murdered in Old Station Basti under Bissamkatak police station limits in Odisha’s Rayagada district on Saturday. Police have detained the boy’s paternal uncle, who is suspected to be the prime accused, said SP (Rayagada) Swathy S Kumar.According to preliminary probe, the child went missing…
Bhubaneswar: The Orissa high court has issued a stern warning to panchayat representatives against settling cases of sexual crimes involving minors at the village level. The high court directed district collectors and superintendents of police to launch sensitisation programmes to curb this unlawful practice.The directive came recently as the court upheld the conviction of a…
Photo for representative purpose Bhubaneswar: More than 30 trains originating and terminating at Puri railway station, including Lokmanya Tilak Terminus-Puri Express and Sealdah-Puri Duronto Express, will be short-terminated or short-originated from March 11 to May 16 due to an ongoing infrastructure upgradation work. It will affect passenger services between Khurda Road and Puri stations. The…
Pedestrians shield from the heat in Bhubaneswar Bhubaneswar: As temperature varied sharply between 31-degree Celsius and 36-degree Celsius in the capital, Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) issued a heatwave advisory directing outdoor construction to stop between 11 am and 3 pm from March 15. The restriction aimed to reduce heat exposure for labourers during peak afternoon…
Bhubaneswar: Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has decided to expand its planned mass anti-rabies vaccination drive to cover at least 5,000 more puppies, born after the Oct dog census, officials said. As the Oct census count stood at 47,000, now the BMC will have to account for 52,000 dogs.The city’s mass vaccination campaign is scheduled to…
Weapons on display at Nyaya Sanhita exhibition on IDCO Exhibition Ground Bhubaneswar: Want to have a look at weapons like 9mm pistol-calibre carbine from Czech Republic, capable of firing 1,150 rounds per minute, or Bulgarian-made under-barrel grenade launcher, that have been wielded in the state police’s mission against Maoist insurgents?The ongoing Nyaya Sanhita exhibition on…
Bhubaneswar: Over 1.02 crore women will receive a total of Rs 5,000 crore under the fourth instalment of the state’s flagship Subhadra Yojana on March 8, the International Women’s Day, announced deputy CM Pravati Parida here on Saturday.Under the Subhadra Yojana, launched in the state by PM Narendra Modi in 2024, women in the age…
