‘Media plays vital role in disaster management’
Media plays a vital role in disaster preparedness and management, said Khordha district Collector Sitanshu Kumar Rout at a programme held to mark the Odisha Disaster Preparedness Day and National Day of Disaster Reduction here on Tuesday. He said concerned Government officials need to execute plans with dedication to combat natural...
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2.5 months on, flood-hit Tarbha yet to get succour
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Infighting hits State Congress again
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‘State to auction 31 mines in phased manner’
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Father moves OHRC, seeks action against doc
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No audit of Ratna Bhandar since 1984
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Wonderla to set up amusement park in State
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2nd Traffic police station opened in city
Director General of Police Bijay Kumar Sharma inaugurated a second Traffic police station in the State capital at Chandrasekharpur on Wednesday. The new Traffic police station will have jurisdiction over eight police stations, Nandankanan, Infocity, Chandrasekharpur, Nayapalli, Khandagiri, Tamando, Chandaka and Jatni. As many as 120 constables, one havildar, two SIs...
Statue huge, but Sardar remains ignored even today
It is a strange coincidence that October 31 is historic for two big reasons: the lesser one is very popularly known and remembered, the much greater one hardly in news or public discourse. In 1875, on this day one of the greatest sons of India, Sardar Patel, was born in an...
CM: Construction of airport to bring major dev in Jewar
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said that construction of Jewar airport was an example of major projects being implemented through mutual consent as farmers themselves handed over certificates of possession to the government, allowing construction of world class airport on their land. “The state government is fulfilling the dream of Prime Minister...
Five killed in road mishaps
Five persons, including a gram pradhan, were killed while over a dozen others were injured in separate road mishaps in Moradabad during the last 24 hours. In the first accident in Wazirganj police station area of Moradabad, gram pradhan of Byoli, Abhishekh Pratap Singh, died after being knocked down by a...
Security, intelligence agencies on high alert
With Supreme Court’s verdict on Ayodhya issue expected to be pronounced in the second week of November, security and intelligence agencies have been put on high alert in Uttar Pradesh. Also, sleuths of Intelligence Bureau (IB) have perched themselves in the three disputed shrines in the state including, Ayodhya, to...
Priyanka hits out at govt on trader’s ‘custodial death’
With the business community demanding that Union minister and Bharatiya Janata Party MP from Amethi, Smriti Irani, initiate a high-level probe into the alleged custodial death of a local trader, Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Wednesday attacked the Yogi Adityanath government by tweeting: “UP Police is kind to...
Purvanchal Expressway to be completed by next year
The 340-km-long six-lane, expandable to eight lanes, Greenfield Purvanchal Expressway would be completed by the end of 2020 and the main carriageway would be opened for traffic. So far, 20 per cent work on the expressway has been completed. “The 340.824-km-long Purvanchal Expressway will be completed by the end of next...
