Women queue up near a hand pump to collect water Kendrapada: Several villages in Kendrapada district are facing an acute drinking water crisis this summer as work on a Rs 241-crore mega drinking water supply project remains incomplete.The ambitious project, aimed at supplying potable water to salinity-hit coastal pockets of the district, is moving at…
Sambalpur: A district and sessions court on Monday sentenced a 22-year-old man to life imprisonment for the 2024 murder of an unidentified beggar at Ainthapali here.District and sessions judge Pragyan Panigrahi, after examining testimonies of 14 witnesses and other evidence on record, held Ayush Munda of Mahanadi Vihar, under Ainthapali police limits, guilty of murder…
Cuttack: SCB Medical College and Hospital has launched an inquiry following a petition alleging the sale of 14 newborns from the hospital between 2019 and 2025.The probe was launched after the office of the revenue divisional commissioner (RDC), Central Range, sent a grievance petition seeking an inquiry and an action taken report. The petition claimed…
The auto-ambulance service being flagged off in Ganjam district on Monday Berhampur: Ganjam district administration on Monday launched the free auto-ambulance services to ferry pregnant women and children under one-year of age from remote and unconnected areas of the district to the nearby health centers.Named “Nirikhyana Sathi”, the initiative aims at smooth institutional delivery of…
Berhampur: Berhampur MP Pradeep Kumar Panigrahy has urged chief minister Mohan Charan Majhi to rename Paralakhemundi railway station in Gajapati district after Maharaja Krushna Chandra Gajapati on the occasion of birth anniversary celebration of then Parala Maharaja on Sunday. “The renaming of Paralakhemundi as Maharaja Krushna Chandra Gajapati railway station would be a real tribute…
Berhampur: Govt-run MKCG Medical College and Hospital here on Sunday opened a special mother, newborn care unit, the first-of-its-kind in Odisha.The 10-bed unit with modern equipment was opened by Berhampur MLA K Anil Kumar, in the presence of dean-cum-superintendent of the medical college, Suchitra Dash, and several senior doctors.The special unit, set up under National…
A scene from the play Daku Dhurandhar Bhubaneswar: Members of Odisha Society of the Americas (OSA), NYNJPA chapter, presented Odia drama ‘Daku Dhurandhar’ at the Northeast Regional Drama Festival (RDF) in Massachusetts, recently. The 45-minute play, a suspense thriller with four scenes, was staged at Miscoe Hill Middle School, Mendon.The play written and directed by…
Berhampur: An argument over the choice of music during a wedding procession turned fatal when the groom’s brother was stabbed to death by the DJ and his friends. The incident took place on Saturday night at Balighai village under Polasara police station limits in Ganjam district.The victim was identified as Akash Jena (25). On Saturday…
AI-generated representational image. BHUBANESWAR: The city police on Sunday said that two trafficked Nepalese minor girls were recently rescued from a hotel in the Patia area and subsequently rehabilitated at a short-stay home.“We have informed the Nepal Embassy in Delhi to facilitate their repatriation,” a senior police officer said.Both girls, aged 17, told police that…
Two school teachers on Census duty have died in Odisha within two days (Representative image) BHUBANESWAR: Two school teachers on Census duty died within two days in separate incidents in Odisha, with officials suspecting sunstroke as the cause. The incidents were reported from Mayurbhanj and Sundargarh districts, where temperatures have crossed 37 degrees Celsius. This…
