Garhwa: In a heart-wrenching incident, four children drowned in a pit filled with water in Ursugi village of Jharkhand’s Garhwa district on Tuesday afternoon, officials said. All the victims were residents of the same village, Ursugi. The deceased have been identified as Lucky Kumar, 8, son of Awadhesh Ram; Akshay Kumar, 12, son of Santosh…
Cuttack: The Panchuka of Baba Dhabaleswar of Athagarh in Cuttack has started from Monday. Devotees thronged the shrine to witness his ‘Chandrachur besha’ on Tuesday. Yesterday was the last Monday of Kartik according to Odia calendar in which the Lord had adorned ‘Ashutosh besha’.Popular belief goes that, offering prayers to Baba Dhabaleswar today frees one of…
The Supreme Court on Friday declined to send murder accused Sonam Raghuvanshi back to jail despite expressing serious reservations about the bail granted by the Meghalaya High Court in the high-profile Raja Raghuvanshi murder case.Pragativadi I Latest Odisha News in English I Breaking NewsSupreme Court Refuses to Send Sonam Raghuvanshi Back to Jail, Raises Questions…
Namibia, 4/2: Namibia’s President Hage Geingob, 82, died in hospital early on Sunday, the presidency said, weeks after he was diagnosed with cancer. The post on social media platform X did not give a cause of death, but late last month the presidency said he would travel to the United States for treatment after being…
New Delhi, 29/7: Ambaram Meghwal has finally succeeded in stirring the administration up from slumber after 55 days of silent protest in Barmer, which is about 800km from Delhi — the epicentre of the youth protest against a corrupt education system. Meghwal, who is in his sixties, endured the heat and rain to protest against…
Bhubaneswar, 12/5:Inaugurating a conference of Divisional Forest officers, Chief Minister Shri Naveen Patnaik has asked the forest officers to prepare a concrete roadmap for improving the health of our forests and enhancing the living standards of our forest fringe villagers. A two-day conference of DFOs has been organised at state convention centre in Lok Seva…
Vigilance sleuths on Monday conducted simultaneous raids at 10 places associated with Narayan Chandra Nayak, Sub Collector of Kamakhyanagar on charges of amassing properties disproportionate to his known sources of income. As per sources, several teams of the anti-corruption agency are conducting simultaneous raids on the properties of Nayak including the office and government quarters.The Vigilance team comprising…
New Delhi, 20/3 (AO Bureau): After the fourth T20 (India vs England T20I Series) between India and England, the dispute in the case of ‘Soft Signal Controversy’ has deepened. In such a situation, the time has come for the International Cricket Council (ICC) to take a tough stand on this issue. In fact, the controversial…
Bhubaneswar, 18/3:On the instruction of Chief Minister Sri Naveen Patnaik, Secretary to CM, Transformative Initiative under 5-T, Sri V K Pandian, is on a 2 day visit to Nabarangpur district on 17th and 18th March, 2023 to make field assessment and to take stock of different developmental initiatives of the Govt. …
Bhubaneswar : Shri Arindam Sinha , Regional Executive Director NTPC (Eastern Region -HQ -II) hoisted the National Flag and took the ceremonial salute. This was followed by his address. Shri Arindam Sinha, stated that it was with a great sense of pride that we celebrating the 77 th Independence Day of our Nation. He recalled…
