Odisha Vigilance officials today apprehended Pradesh Prasad Nayak, Junior Engineer (JE), TPSODL, Malkangiri, and his associate Bhanjakishor Swain, while they were demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs 20,000 from a bricks factory owner in exchange for providing an electricity connection.The Vigilance team caught the duo near the main gate of the office while they…
Patna, 20/10: The Congress agreed to contest 61 seats in poll-bound Bihar, nine less than the number of constituencies where it had fought five years ago, but will end up contesting against I.N.D.I.A. bloc partners, like the RJD and the CPI, in several assembly constituency. Vaishali, Lalganj, Kahalgaon, Rajapakad and Rosera are among the assembly…
Kulgam, 14/3: In an early morning swoop, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) Wednesday carried out raids at multiple locations across Kashmir in connection with an alleged terror conspiracy case. Reports said the probe agency sleuths accompanied by J&K police and CRPF personnel conducted raids at nine locations in Anantnag, Kulgam, and Pulwama districts…
New Delhi, 15/3: Days after the Congress working committee meeting, the party’s senior leader Kapil Sibal on Tuesday demanded that the ‘Gandhis should step aside from the leadership role and give a chance to someone else to lead the party’. Since the poll debacle of 2014 the Congress has lost elections continuously except on…
Bhubaneswar, August 15, 2026: TP Central Odisha Distribution Limited (TPCODL), a joint venture of Tata Power and the Government of Odisha, celebrated the 80th Independence Day with patriotic fervour and enthusiasm at its Corporate Office premises in Bhubaneswar. Shri Gajanan S. Kale, Chief – Odisha Distribution Business and CEO, TPCODL, graced the occasion as the…
A 32-year-old auto driver, Rankanidhi Sahoo, became the latest victim of mobile theft in Bhubaneswar when his mobile phone was stolen by a passenger, Mithun Paikray, on May 19, 2025. The incident occurred while Sahoo was ferrying passengers from Rasulgarh to Baramunda. Paikray, a 28-year-old resident of Paikray Sahi, Baramunda, allegedly borrowed Sahoo’s phone under…
Bhubaneswar: The highly anticipated chariot pulling ceremony of the Rath Yatra has commenced in Puri, with lakhs of devotees gathering to pull the magnificent chariots of Lord Jagannath, Balabhadra, and Devi Subhadra. The grand event, which started at 4 pm, marks the journey of the deities from the Singhadwara of the Shree Jagannath Temple to…
A super specialty clinic was inaugurated at the Saheed Laxman Nayak Medical College and Hospital in Koraput. Koraput Collector V. Keerthi Vasan was the chief guest at the inauguration ceremony. The clinic will provide specialized medical services in cardiology, neurology, and nephrology. Renowned doctors from these departments will visit the clinic to provide treatment to…
Thiruvananthapuram, 31/1: Sanju Samson would expect passionate home support to lift his game even as India fret over Axar Patel’s fitness when they wind up their T20 World Cup preparations in the fifth and final T20 International against New Zealand here on Saturday. India were in experimental mode in the fourth T20I at Visakhapatnam, sticking…
New Delhi, 17/12: The Supreme Court has stayed the defamation case proceedings against Karnataka’s senior IPS officer D Roopa after she filed an affidavit in terms of the previous order to delete controversial social media posts against senior IAS officer, Rohini Sindhuri. A bench of Justices Abhay S Oka and Pankaj Mithal took into record…
