In a significant step towards deepening Centre-State collaboration, Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi today.The leaders engaged in detailed discussions on accelerating the state’s development trajectory with a sharp focus on infrastructure, investments, and welfare.According to Chief Minister Majhi’s official statement, the meeting centred on “strategic acceleration…
Bhubaneswar: Odisha Electricity Regulatory Commission (OERC) Chairperson and retired IAS officer Pradeep Kumar Jena resigned from his post today.As informed by the Energy Department, Jena, the former Chief Secretary of Odisha, resigned from the post of OERC Chairperson on personal grounds and the state government accepted and allowed him to relinquish from the post with…
Baripada: A severe Kalbaisakhi storm accompanied by strong winds and rain caused widespread damage in several gram panchayats under Thakurmunda block of Mayurbhanj district on Monday afternoon, leaving a 13-year-old girl dead and disrupting normal life in the area.The thunderstorm struck the region around 3.20 pm, uprooting trees, damaging electric poles and blowing away roofs…
Panic spread among commuters on Sunday afternoon when a heavily loaded Hyva truck caught fire while crossing the New Brahmani Bridge.The driver narrowly escaped death by jumping out moments before flames engulfed the moving vehicle.Reports said the truck, loaded with stone chips, suddenly caught fire mid-bridge. The driver sensed danger, abandoned the vehicle, and leapt…
Mahanga: A couple was allegedly subjected to a murderous assault after the woman gave birth to twin daughters at Pasulunda village under Mahanga police limits in Cuttack district.The victims were identified as Chandrasekhar Jena, 23, and his wife Parbati Jena, 21, in the village. The husband lodged a police complaint against his father, mother and elder…
Bhubaneswar: Police Encounter Criminal in Swift Action After Viral Brutal AssaultBerhampur police injured notorious criminal Jagga Sahu in an encounter early Monday morning.According to reports, Jagga was the prime accused in the brutal murderous attack on a young man named Mangala Behera in Ambika Nagar the previous night. A video of the merciless assault on…
A man was found dead with his throat slit in Odisha’s Puri district today. The body was found in a cashew forest near Narasinghpatna bridge in Brahmagiri area of Puri in the evening. Bhubaneswar: A man was found dead with his throat slit in Odisha’s Puri district today.The deceased has been identified as Lipu Jena…
Police arrested three youths in Sundargarh district after they allegedly attacked two men and set their motorcycle ablaze in Deuli village under Lefripoda police limits on Sunday night.The victims, identified as Sameer Patel and Shubhendu Shekhar from Balichuan under Hemgiri police station, had travelled to Deuli village on their bike (OD 15/4752). They reportedly clashed…
Bhubaneswar, May 25: The Odisha Government on Monday transferred ADG (Communication) Dayal Gangwar as OSD in the Home Department amid the controversy surrounding the death of a GRP constable Soumya Ranjan Swain by an angry mob in Balianta on the outskirts of Bhubaneswar on May 7.The decision reportedly comes after the NHRC put the State Government…
Cuttack: A couple was allegedly assaulted by family members in Pasulunda village under Mahanga block of Cuttack district after the woman gave birth to twin daughters, police said on Sunday.The incident took place in Pasulunda village under Srikrushnapur panchayat.According to reports, Parbati Jena of Kanpur village was married to Chandra Sekhar Jena of Pasulunda village…
