Bhubaneswar: The Govt of Odisha will soon approach the Centre to identify Paika revolt of Odisha in 1817 as the first War of Independence of India instead of the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857. To support the claim, the Odisha State Archives has prepared a 700-page book ‘The Paika Rebellion A Documentary Study’ which promises to…
BHUBANESWAR: The BJP admonished party’s senior leader Bijoy Mohapatra for audaciously questioning the petroleum minister Dharmendra Pradhan. Bijoy wrote a letter to the Union minister on May 31 highlighting how Paradip refinery of the Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL) failed to generate enough jobs for the locals in contrast to promises made by Dharmendra. “…the dreams…
Bhubaneswar: On 2 June 2017 the state government bring in to transfer the controversial proposed POSCO land near Paradip, which had been acquired for South Korean steel giant Posco, to Sajjan Jindal-led JSW Steel which has proposed to set up a 10 mtpa steel project at the site. The high level clearance authority (HLCA) chaired…
BHUBANESWAR: On Saturday, the Government Railway Police (GRP) arrested a city hotel owner Ganesh Prasad Sahoo for instigating youths to unload 20 milch cows from a train and attack the railway staff and caretakers of cows on May 24. Sahoo is the owner of Ashirvad Hotel at Cuttack Road and also heads the Old Station…
BHUBANESWAR: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Saturday asked Raman Singh, Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh to certify free flow of water in the Mahanadi River by opening the gates of Kalma barrage which was closed by the neighboring state lately. By objecting the one-sided decision of the government of Chhattisgarh to stop flow in the inter-state…
BHUBANESWAR: A woman was hanged to death on suspicion of being a child-lifter in Mayurbhanj district on Saturday morning. The incident took place in Domuhanivillage under Bangiriposi Police perimeter. Police said the 40 year old woman was first seen by the villagers on Friday night. They questioned her about where she had arrived from and…
BHUBANESWAR: Jailer of the circle jail in Sambalpur, Sushanta Rout put in trouble after the police seized Rs 16.72 lakh in cash from his office chamber on Sunday. The clampdown was part of concurrent raids at 12 prisons across the state. “Our officers found Rs 16.72 lakh cash in the cupboard of his chamber in the…
BHUBANESWAR: Bapi Jena, 30, of Hantuka village of Puri district had faced resentment of some people of his locality when he tried to get information from Hantuka Service Cooperative Society through right to information (RTI) act regarding beneficiaries of farm loans. He suspected that an official of the cooperative society was not happy with him…
“On June 21, the world will come together to mark the third Yoga Day. Let us all make this occasion a memorable one,” Narendra Modi tweeted on Thursday. 21st June is World Yoga Day and as the day is approaching, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, took to twitter to urge everyone to do yoga. With an…
New Delhi: A 23-year- old woman was shot dead at Shatabdi Rail Vihar residential society inSector 62 of Noida on Wednesday morning. The woman identified as Anjali Rathour was working as a trainee engineer with a mobile manufacturing company in Sector 64 of Noida. Anjali hailed from Jagadhri near Yamuna Nagar in Haryana.She graduated from Lovely…