Rourkela: A 25-year-old man was arrested by Lahunipada police in Bonai sub-division of Sundargarh district on Tuesday for allegedly beating his father to death with a wooden plank. The arrested man has been identified as Kishore Munda. The incident was preceded by a quarrel with his father Rama Munda (55) at their house at Barsuan…
Koraput: The Jeypore forest division has recorded 231 forest fire incidents at different locations between Jan 1 and April 21 this year. According to official records, 183 of these incidents were reported within forest areas, while 48 occurred outside forest boundaries. Despite the spike, officials maintained that all reported fires were brought under control.In response…
Cuttack: Orissa high court has quashed a three-year-old vigilance case against senior IAS officer Bijay Ketan Upadhyaya, ruling that the prosecution was undermined by a flawed sanction process under anti-corruption law.Upadhyaya, a 2009 Odisha-cadre IAS officer is presently secretary in the Odia language literature and culture department.Delivering the judgment on April 17, the single-judge bench…
Bhubaneswar: JSW Steel will sign a joint venture agreement with Tokyo-headquartered JFE Steel Corporation on April 24 for a Rs 30,000-crore investment to add 6 million tonne per annum (MTPA) capacity at JSW-acquired Bhushan Power and Steel Ltd (BSPL) in Sambalpur, govt officials said on Tuesday.The development comes a day after JSW Steel and South…
Kendrapada: From beatings to kneel downs and standing on one leg, punishment in school used to be varied. But a headmaster of a govt school in Jajpur district has gone many steps ahead by putting stinging nettle inside the trousers of 10 students. Their alleged crime — creating disturbance in class.The incident, which took place…
Bhubaneswar: Adding another chapter to India’s tiger dispersal story, a male Royal Bengal Tiger has entered Odisha’s Similipal Tiger Reserve after supposedly covering nearly 1,500km.Though wildlife experts are yet to find out the habitat from where it may have dispersed, initial assessments suggest it may have come from the central India landscape, possibly the Vidarbha…
Bhubaneswar: Puri district police have launched a manhunt to arrest a man accused of raping a six-year-old girl on Sunday. The suspect, identified as the minor’s neighbour, is currently absconding. “We registered the case on Monday after receiving information from the hospital. The accused has been identified and will be arrested soon,” a senior police…
Bhubaneswar: Odisha govt on Tuesday approved 18 industrial projects involving a total investment of Rs 3,877.14 crore, with the potential to generate 7,565 jobs.The proposals were cleared by the State Level Single Window Clearance Authority (SLSWCA) chaired by chief secretary Anu Garg. The approved projects span 11 districts — Balasore, Deogarh, Ganjam, Jajpur, Jharsuguda, Keonjhar,…
Bhubaneswar: BJD MP Sasmit Patra on Tuesday wrote to chief election commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, raising serious concern over the proposed deletion of nearly 9.8 lakh voters in Odisha during the elector mapping exercise ahead of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.Patra warned that alleged procedural lapses and inadequate verification could lead to large-scale…
Rourkela: President Droupadi Murmu on Tuesday inaugurated four major projects in Rourkela, with a combined investment of ₹158 crore, underscoring the Centre and state’s focus on urban infrastructure, tribal heritage and technology-driven governance.The President inaugurated the Planetarium and Science Centre and the Nirmal Munda Parivesh Path at a public function here. She later unveiled the…
