By Tirthankar Patel Bhubaneswar, April 6: Leading educationist and chairman of Padhee Group of Institutions, Janaki Ballav Padhi, – was on Thursday morning found hanging from the ceiling fan in his bedroom at his Brahmeswarpatna residence here in the city. The local Badagarh police has seized the body. A suicide note has purportedly been seized […]Continue Reading
By Pramod Sahukar Munigudua, March 31: A group of suspected Maoists on Thursday night blasted the Dahikhal railway control room near Muniguda in Odisha’s Rayagada district by triggering power improvised explosive device. According to reports, the rebels numbering around 10-12, entered the railway station at around 12.15 am and threatened the station master to get […]Continue Reading
Dharmasala MLA Pranab Balabantaraya handing over old age pension to an elderly woman at Kalpataru Das mini stadium on Tuesday. Also seen in the picture Dharmasala Block chairman Prabhat Balabanta Ray and BDO Abani Sahoo. – Photo Akshya Rout/Jajpur/OdishaContinue Reading
BDO denies charge, says probe has revealed no irregularities BY CB SINGH Rayagada: Chandrapur block under Odisha’s Rayagada district, a thickly populated forested area with 60 to 70 per cent of illiterate, economical poor scheduled tribe and schedule caste (ST and SC) and other backward classes, – is suffering from lack of development. Plagued with […]Continue Reading
By Prasanna Mohanty Bhubaneswar, March 22: The Congress in Odisha which has been struggling to regain its eminence in the state politics for nearly two decades is now at the crossroads as it is desperately lacking an “all-acceptable” leader to lead the party from the front. Frequent defeats, mostly because of bitter internecine bickering, have […]Continue Reading
By Ratikant Mohanty BHUBANESWAR, MARCH 18: It’s official now. South Korean steel major Pohang Steel Company (Posco) has finally say ‘no’ to the country’s largest foreign direct investment project – the 12-million-tonne integrated steel project – that was supposed to come up at Paradip in Odisha’s Jagatsinghpur district. Odisha industry minister Debi Prasad Mishra on […]Continue Reading
