Orissa High Court Grants ?5 Lakhs Compensation To +3 Student Wrongly Declared As ‘Fail’ By Sambalpur University In 1999

Orissa High Court Grants ?5 Lakhs Compensation To +3 Student Wrongly Declared As ‘Fail’ By Sambalpur University In 1999

The Orissa High Court has ordered Sambalpur University to pay five-lakh rupees compensation to a student who was erroneously declared as ‘fail’ in his +3 examinations held in 1999.While highlighting the delicate

Hirakud residents infected with Diarrhoea, 150 affected

Hirakud residents infected with Diarrhoea, 150 affected

CDMO says test reports suggest contamination due to faecal content in supply water, SDO of PHED denies claims While 28 of them got discharged after treatment, eight were admitted to Hirakud urban community

Open Fire in Jewelry Shop Sambalpur

Open Fire in Jewelry Shop Sambalpur

Opened fire on the jeweler Sujit around 2:30PM to 3 PM in New Payal Jewellers at govindtola dhanupali police limit

Man Died because of delay treatment due to no road

Man Died because of delay treatment due to no road

An ill man died while they are walking to the hospital as there no road from his village

Padmapur’s Residents protest over district recognition

Padmapur’s Residents protest over district recognition

Irate residents of Padampur in Bargarh district, under the aegis of Jay Kishan Andolan, modified the signboard outside the sub-collector’s office on Monday, by removing the ‘sub’ to press for their demand

 

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Cut-off villagers threaten poll boycott

As a last resort to pressurise the State Government to act on their demands, villagers in the cut-off region on the other side of the Chitrakonda reservoir have threatened to boycott panchayat polls. In a meeting held at Gurusetu near Panasput, 30,000 tribals of 151 villages under six gram panchayats of Kudmulgumma block have reportedly

Panchayat polls: In the race for quick bucks

Despite the hype surrounding the three-tier panchayat polls with development being the buzz word in the district, the ground realities paint a sorry picture of the elected representatives. Many of them have been tainted with cases ranging from financial to criminal. Former Sarpanch of Tabla gram panchayat, Sanyasini Badhai was sentenced on Tuesday to two

Dead saplings: History may repeat for BJD

The growing protests against the death of paddy saplings in the Hirakud Command Area are likely to cast a shadow on the poll prospects of the BJD. Though the BJD has made fresh inroads into the Congress bastion in Sambalpur district forcing it to go back-foot, the farmers issue may well help Congress retain the

Missing boy rescued

Activists of a voluntary organization in Sambalpur rescued a 13-year-old boy from  Trivandrum (Kerala) on Sunday, a few months after he had gone missing. He had gone to work in a brick kiln in Andhra Pradesh with his parents and four siblings. The boy, identified as Basudev Luha from Jhanged village under Bargarh’s  Attabira police

Now, Pipili agitators bay for Naveen’s ouster

Notwithstanding Pradip Maharathy’s resignation from the cabinet following the storm over the Pipili gang-rape incident, social organizations and political parties said they would continue with their “save women” agitation. They said Maharathy quitting as the agriculture minister was an “eyewash” and demanded chief minister Naveen Patnaik to resign owning moral responsibility for all that happened

Road accident claims three lives in Sambalpur

Three youths in the age group of 22-28 years were killed when the motorbike in which they were travelling in dashed against a standing truck at Rampela toll gate near here, the police said today. The deceased were identified as Rajesh Patel, Pankaj Nayak and Ramakanta Mahakud. While Patel and Nayak died on the spot

Upgradation of Puri stations on track

The East Coast Railway (ECoR) is in the process of preparing a 30-year master plan for the entire Bhubaneswar – Cuttack region to make it among the best in the country, General Manager of East Coast Railway Indra Ghosh has said.  Addressing the Republic Day function, he said plans are approved for upgrading the existing facilities

Task force formed to make Odisha slum free

With the objective to make the State slum-free, the State Government has constituted Odisha Slum Development Task Force under the chairmanship of Chief Secretary Bijay Kumar Patnaik. According to official sources, OSDTF would help in resource mobilisation through multilateral and bilateral funding agencies and promotion of convergence by removing interdepartmental and interagency bottlenecks. In the

Odisha: Ex-MP alleged farmers are on verge of ruination due to Government’s indolence

Former MP Bhabani Sankar Hota alleged that due to Government inaction and apathetic attitude farmers are on the verge of ruination due to extensive damage to both seedling and transplanted paddy plant which are attacked by an unknown kind of plant virus. Farmers of Hirakud command area have suffered almost 100% loss. Responding to demand

Bargarh MP in hibernation

Neglect shown to Bargarh Parliamentary constituency by its elected representative, Sanjay Bhoi, is likely to reflect on the Congress’ performance in the Panchayat elections. Ever since the Congress at the Centre served showcause on 13 party MPs, including Sanjay Bhoi, for remaining absent from the Lok Sabha during voting on the Constitution Amendment Bill on

Naveen seeks SRE coverage for 4 districts

Chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday reiterated Odisha’s demand for inclusion of Nuapada, Bargarh, Balangir and Kalahandi districts in the centrally sponsored Security Related Expenditure (SRE) scheme. In a letter to Union home minister P Chidambaram, Naveen pointed out that there has been a significant rise in naxal violence in parts of Chhattisgarh bordering Odisha

Odisha tightens security ahead of R-Day

Security was beefed up across Odisha on Wednesday ahead of the Republic Day, with authorities wary of a retaliatory strike by Maoists after the recent arrest of one of their top leaders. Although collectors of all the 30 districts of the state have been told to step up vigil, officials in Maoist-hit districts have been

Maoist leader nabbed in Bargarh

Bargarh police arrested a hardcore Maoist, in-charge of the Sambalpur-Deogarh-Sundergarh zonal committee, from his hideout on Tuesday. Bargarh SP Kabita Jalan said on Tuesday police got information about Girish Mahanto, alias Uttam, and arrested him along with one Shankar Munda from Attabira area of the district. “On Tuesday morning at about 5 am, district police

Top Jharkhand Maoist with Rs 4 lakh on his head arrested in Orissa

The Orissa police notched up a major success in their anti-Maoist battle after they arrested top Maoist leader Girish Mahato and two of his accomplices in the forests of Paikmal block in Bargarh district. Mahato had escaped Chaibasa jail of Jharkhand in January last year along with two other rebels by scaling the prison walls.