BHUBANESWAR: Six persons, including the owner of a house and his son, allegedly died of asphyxiation while trying to remove the centring of an under-construction septic tank at Gaud Karlakhunta village in Kalahandi district on Tuesday.Police said five labourers were hired for the job to remove the temporary structure built to support the concrete roof…
Bhubaneswar: The economic offences wing (EOW) of the state crime branch on Tuesday arrested three women employees of a public sector bank in Bhubaneswar for their alleged involvement in a loan fraud amounting to nearly Rs 6.88 crore. The accused have been identified as Baishakhi Saha (32), Charubala Dandasena (31) and Sarita Paikaray (32).According to…
Bhubaneswar: Bubun Sahoo of Keonjhar has topped the Odisha Civil Services (OCS) Examination-2024 with four women ranking in the top-10.Son of a farmer, the 30-year-old studied geology at Ravenshaw University before pursuing MSc from IIT(ISM) Dhanbad. This was his second attempt at the OCS exam. “In my first attempt at OCS-2023, I was selected for…
Bhubaneswar: The Council of Higher Secondary Education (CHSE) has issued a notification inviting applications for re-checking and re-addition of marks at Rs 200 per subject for the annual higher secondary exam 2026. HS science, commerce, arts and vocational examinees can apply online for scrutiny of answer scripts from June 1-12 through the CHSE website. The…
Cuttack: Illegal parking and rampant encroachments by roadside shops along the busy 1.5-km stretch from Badambadi to Bajrakabati Road have become a major headache for commuters leading to severe traffic congestion and daily snarls in the city.The stretch, considered one of the busiest commercial corridors in the city, witnesses heavy movement of buses, auto-rickshaws, two-wheelers…
Bhubaneswar: The State Sentence Review Board, which was scheduled to meet on Tuesday to take call on remission plea of Graham Staines murder convict Dara Singh, among others, got postponed, officials said. The meeting was deferred due to unavailability of the members. The home department will soon decide on a new date, a govt officer…
Rourkela: A woman was found dead at her house under Raghunathpalli police station limits on Monday. The deceased, Sabita Singh (41), was living at Ruptola with her husband Rabindra Bahadur (45).Her brother, Khirod Singh, lodged an FIR alleging that she was murdered by Rabindra. In his complaint, Khirod alleged that Rabindra frequently quarrelled with her…
Jharsuguda: Orient police in Jharsuguda district busted an inter-state two-wheeler theft racket involved in stealing and selling motorcycles across Odisha and Chhattisgarh, police said on Tuesday. Police identified the accused as Jajbir Singh (35) of Mandalia village under Orient police limits in Jharsuguda district and Mann Kumar Ram (44) of Ghatmunda village in Chhattisgarh. Source…
Rourkela: The mutilated body of a 50-year-old man was recovered from the railway track near the overbridge close to TCI Chowk in Rourkela on Tuesday. The deceased has been identified as Padam Bahadur. His two-wheeler was found parked near the railway track. Police officials of GRP, Rourkela, seized the body. It and has been kept…
Cuttack: Orissa high court has refused to grant bail to Dhirendranath Baral, a 65% permanently disabled “history-sheeter”, in connection with a recent hotel bombing case in Puri.While rejecting Baral’s bail plea, Justice Aditya Kumar Mohapatra noted the petitioner was allegedly involved in extortion of “Dadabati” money from hotel owners and was accused of masterminding the…
