In an unpleasant and shocking development on Monday, members of the District Bar Association had a violent confrontation with the district Collector first inside a bus and then on the District Judge Court campus where, the Collector alleged, she was manhandled by advocates. The incident bears the potential of snowballing into a major issue between

Sambalpur (Odisha), Apr 23 (PTI) Irate lawyers in Odisha’s Sambalpur district today allegedly chased the District Collector, abused her in filthy language and ransacked her residential office alleging highhandedness, police said. Collector Mrinalini Darswal and Sambalpur Bar Association president Pramod Kumar Rath lodged FIR and Counter FIR against each other at the Town Police Station

With the increase in activities of Left-wing extremists (LWEs) in the State, more funds will be at the disposal of the Government to counter them. The Centre recently included four more districts from the State in the Security Related Expenditure (SRE) scheme. Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik had been demanding inclusion of Bargarh, Balangir, Nuapada and

The Gangadhar Meher (Autonomous) College, a premier educational institution of western Odisha organised a meeting for development of the institution. The meeting was attended by academicians, intellectuals, former principals, students and former students, where participants demanded unanimously to convert the college to a unitary university.   A focus group was formed with people from all

An elephant was found dead near Dangapal village in Chuliakani Khesra forest under Bamra wildlife division, on Saturday night. Sources said the elephant got entangled in live wire after an electric pole it was rubbing its back against crashed. It died on the spot. Villagers said suddenly power went off in the night and when

EVEN from an early age in school copying and fudging were frowned upon, to say the least. What was referred to as tracing was also forbidden most of the time, tracing being the duplication of a map or other figure by following outlines seen through a sheet of translucent paper. Some clever students (I’m using

Blackboards in classrooms will soon be replaced with interactive boards at three Kendriya Vidyalays in Odisha under the e-classroom project launched by the Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan (KVS) in 50 KVs in India. The three KVs in Odisha are Berhampur, KV No.1 in Cuttack and KV Sambalpur. There are 55 KVs in Odisha. At least ten

The commerce and transport department has come up with a proposal to set up amenities along National Highways in the state for the benefit of travellers. DoCT principal secretary Gagan Kumar Dhal said that the department has proposed to set up wayside amenities on National Highways for passengers, drivers and other people. This would be

Like other major cities of the country, an observatory Planetarium is going to set up in Western Odisha’s Major city Sambalpur .After Capital Bhubaneswar it will be the second one observatory Planetarium in Odisha State. The public interest has been increased after knowing about the observatory. According to information received, for the proposed observatory Planetarium,

The Planning Commission has rated highly the performance of the State Government in the implementation of the Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS) and the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) in the Left-wing extremist (LWE)- affected districts. A quick evaluation of major development programmes in 33 LWE-affected districts, including five from the State, by Programme Evaluation

The Union Government has received proposals from several State Governments for inclusion of more languages in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution.  The State-wise details of proposal received are as Bihar –Bhojpuri, Chhattishgarh-Chhattisgarhi, Rajsthan-Rajsthani, Himachal Pradesh-Bhoti, Karnataka-Kodava & Tulu,Sikkim-Bhutia, Lepcha & Limboo, Mizoram-Mizo, Nagaland-Tenyidi. At present there are demands for inclusion of 38 more languages

Police on Friday arrested three men for their alleged involvement in the gun attack on a woman working in a call centre in Mancheswar area a week ago. Namita Padhy, who works for Cerco BPO, sustained bullet injuries after two men riding a bike, opened fire at her outside her office on April 13. Namita