NCSC panel blames police for victim’s death
National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) Member Dr Yogendra Paswan on Thursday visited Tentoi village under Naugaon block in the district to probe the death of a Dalit girl, who had committed suicide when her obscene photos were made viral in social media by a youth, Deepak Behura. After meeting the...
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Congress seeks rollback of tax on commercial buildings
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Baleswar HM axed after 30 years of job
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‘Set up taskforce to identify climate hotspots in Odisha'
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A point to ponder, after all
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RDC visits Baleswar DHH, FMMCH
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Three dead, 7 injured in road accident
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24 ULBs achieve100% door waste collection
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Uttarakhand SCW plans pre-marital counselling
The Uttarakhand State Commission for Women is proposing to facilitate pre-marital counselling and encourage awareness on basics of gender issues for primary school students. These issues were discussed in a meeting presided over by the commission’s member secretary Kamini Gupta here on Friday. The meeting was conducted specifically to make a...
Para sports meet for PwDs ends in BBSR
The Department of Social Security and Empowerment of Persons with Disability organised a State level para sports meet for persons with disabilities at the Kalinga Stadium on Friday. Minister of Social Security and Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities, Public Enterprises, Science and Technology Ashok Panda had inaugurated the sports meet in...
2 held for bid to extort money from Vedanta man
Police on Friday arrested two persons for their bid to extort money from Lanjigarh-based Vedanta Alumina Ltd Process Head Sanjib Kumar. Kalahandi SP Battula Gangadhar said the arrested persons, Gagan Patra (28) and Prabha Dora (24), posing themselves as Maoists, had been threatening the officer over phone to kill him for...
End of term exhibition held at IMA
The End of Term Indoor Club Exhibition-cum-Display was held at the Indian Military Academy (IMA) on Friday. The Exhibition was inaugurated by Vice President of the Family Welfare Organisation of IMA, Anupa Rawat. The highlights of the ‘Autumn Term’ exhibition were robotics, ecology, arts and photography club exhibition. In the exhibition, the...
10 of opera troupe hurt in A’garh road mishap
As many as 10 members of an opera troupe were injured when a truck carrying them overturned after hitting a bike at Kantol here on the old Cuttack-Sambalpur road on Friday. According to initial reports, the truck carrying the troupe members of Savitri Gananatya and equipment was en route to Sambalpur...
NIESBUD holds PMEGP workshop
The National Institute for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development (NIESBUD) organised a workshop at Maithan village in Gairsain under the Prime Minister Employment Generation Programme (PMEGP) on Friday. Speaking as the chief guest, Khadi and Gramudhyog Commission assistant director BS Kandari informed the gathering about various schemes being operated by...
Demolition of Lingaraj Market begins
The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) and the Bhubaneswar Development Authority (BDA) jointly began a demolition drive at the Lingaraj Market complex in the Old Town area here on Friday. The demolition drive began as per a prior notice. One platoon of police force was deployed at the spot to prevent any...
