Odisha

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Administrative Service Association (OASA) has deferred its planned mass leave after Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi assured stringent action against those responsible for assaulting Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) Additional Commissioner Ratnakar Sahoo. In a late-night meeting on Monday, lasting nearly an hour, the Chief Minister met OASA representatives alongside the Chief Secretary, [...]

Hyderabad: The death toll in the explosion in a pharmaceutical unit at Pashamylaram near Hyderabad rose sharply to 32 on Tuesday, with about 15 injured succumbing at hospitals overnight. The death toll in the worst industrial disaster in Telangana may go up further as the rescue workers continued searching for the bodies in the debris [...]

Bhubaneswar: The corporators from the opposition Biju Janata Dal (BJD) and staff members of the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) staged a protest demanding the immediate arrest of miscreants, including a corporator, allegedly linked to a senior leader of the ruling BJP, for assaulting an Additional Commissioner of the BMC, Ratnakar Sahoo, earlier in the day. “We [...]

Hyderabad: A massive explosion at an industrial unit in Telangana’s Sangareddy district claimed the lives of 13 workers and left 35 others injured on Monday. The blast occurred in a chemical factory at Pashamylaram industrial area, about 50 km from Hyderabad. The explosion in Sigachi Chemicals led to the collapse of a three-story building in [...]

Bhubaneswar: Biju Janata Dal (BJD) President and Leader of Opposition in the Odisha Legislative Assembly, Naveen Patnaik on Monday expressed profound shock and outrage over the brutal assault on Ratnakar Sahoo, Additional Commissioner of the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC). LoP Naveen urged Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi to take immediate action to restore faith in [...]

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Police on Monday neutralised two hardcore Maoists during an exchange of fire in Puranajiaba Reserved Forest at Baliguda in Kandhamal district. The slain Maoists were identified as Manku and Chandan, who belong to the Kalahandi-Kandhamal-Boudh-Nayagarh (KKBN) division of the proscribed Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) organisation. Manku works as an Area Committee [...]

Bhubaneswar: An FIR has been lodged at Kharavela Nagar Police Station here following a shocking assault on Ratnakar Sahoo, Additional Commissioner of Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC), during a public grievance redressal meeting on Monday. Sahoo(55) detailed the violent incident in his complaint, stating that at approximately 11:30 a.m., six to seven unidentified, heavily built individuals [...]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Revenue and Disaster Management Minister, Suresh Pujari, on Monday, assured that the state government is fully prepared and actively working to manage the flood situation in the northern parts of the state, particularly in Balasore and Mayurbhanj districts. Addressing the media, Pujari said, “The state machinery has been mobilised and all departments concerned [...]

Bhubaneswar: The Biju Janata Dal (BJD) has urged Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi for immediate intervention to address the ongoing crisis in Rabi season paddy procurement, urging an extension of the procurement deadline by one month to July 31. In a letter to the Chief Minister, the BJD highlighted severe issues plaguing the procurement [...]

Bhubaneswar: Babilata Behera, former Supply Inspector of Kaniha Block, District Angul, and currently posted as Supply Inspector at the Office of the Chief Supply Officer (CSO), Baripada, District Mayurbhanj, was convicted today by the Special Judge, Vigilance, Angul, in a bribery case. She has been sentenced to four years of rigorous imprisonment and fined for [...]