Rourkela: A 52-year-old man and his son were killed in a suspected lightning strike in a village in Dhenkanal district, on Sundayafternoon.Santosh Dehury (52) and his son, Satyanarayan Dehury (25), of Balipada village under Kamakhyanagar police station in Dhenkanal, went to their farmland on Sunday afternoon. and while they were transplanting paddy saplings on their…
Bhubaneswar: The state govt has approved upgrade of 67 primary schools to upper primary ones to improve access to education and strengthen learning infrastructure in underserved areas, school and mass education minister Nityananda Gond informed on Saturday.The minister attributed the decision to enhancing standard of education in Odisha and ensuring better educational facilities for students,…
Cuttack: Odisha high court has upheld the Odisha govt’s decision to terminate 50 district law officers before completion of their three-year tenure, ruling that their appointments carried no guarantee of continuation for the full term and could be ended by the state in accordance with the governing rules.Dismissing a batch of 11 writ petitions filed…
Bhubaneswar: A pregnant woman who was travelling on the Rourkela–Gunupur Rajyarani Express gave birth to a girl near Joranda station in Dhenkanal district early Sunday. The woman was shifted to SCB Medical College and Hospital with the help of Railway Protection Force (RPF) and railway staff once the train reached Cuttack station. At SCB, she…
Bhubaneswar: Odisha police arrested Chandrapal Kushwaha, 26, from Jhansi district of Uttar Pradesh in connection with the alleged trafficking and repeated sexual assault of a minor tribal girl from Odisha’s Dhenkanal district. The accused was produced in court and sent to judicial custody on Saturday.Police said Kushwaha was apprehended from Patha village under Erach police…
Bhubaneswar: Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan has urged the state govt to upgrade the Indira Gandhi Institute of Technology (IGIT), Sarang, in Dhenkanal district into a unitary university. In a letter to chief minister Mohan Charan Majhi Pradhan said the upgrade is essential to strengthen technical education in the Dhenkanal-Angul region, which is witnessing rapid…
Bhubaneswar: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Wednesday took suo motu notice of media reports alleging that a 17-year-old tribal girl from Dhenkanal district was trafficked to Jhansi in Uttar Pradesh, sold, and repeatedly sexually assaulted for nearly two years.According to the report, the girl and three others were taken to Uttar Pradesh after…
Bhubaneswar: Odisha police have sent a team to Uttar Pradesh to nab the accused after a minor tribal girl from Dhenkanal district recently alleged that she was raped by several people during the last two years in the Jhansi area of UP. The plight of the girl started after an Odia man sold her to…
