Cuttack: The Orissa High Court on Tuesday rejected two review petitions filed by two religious organizations seeking a relook at its January 2011 orders on demolition of illegal places of worship. The Division Bench of Justice Madanmohan Das and Indrajit Mohanti, adjudicating over the matter, did not make any further observation while rejecting the review petitions. Soon after the High Court order, the Revenue Divisional Commissioner (RDC) Central Division Arvind...
02:46 AM, May 08, 2013
New Delhi: More than 4,00,000 babies across South Asia die right after their birth, reveals a new study. The report also indicates that chronic malnourishment which leads to mental or physical impairment is particularly severe in the region. The report's birth day risk index shows that of the one million babies who die each year on the day they are born, almost 40 per cent of these are in India,...
11:36 AM, May 07, 2013
Bhubaneswar: The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of the Crime Branch of Odisha Police on Monday registered second criminal case against Saradha Group chief Sudipto Sen on the charges of duping about 6,000 investors in Puri district, official sources said. The EOW personnel on Monday recorded statements of a number of investors from Puri town, Nimapara and Sakhigopal area before registering the case. Though a number of agents of Saradha Group...
10:58 PM, May 06, 2013
Kolkata: The manager of Saradha Group's Raniganj branch office was arrested on Sunday. Two of the company's offices in Birbhum in West Bengal were also sealed and computers, certificates and bonds worth Rs 23,000 were seized. This after an investor lodged a complaint against the company. The Economic Offence Wing of Crime Branch of Odisha Police on Saturday also sealed office of Saradha Group at Balasore. A team of the...
04:20 PM, May 05, 2013
Bhubaneswar: Odisha government on Saturday decided to set up a special cell at the Home Department to keep a tab on illegal transportation of minerals within the state and outside besides intensifying physical verification of different working mines. The decision was taken at a meeting of the State Level Task Force on Mines presided over by Chief Secretary BK Patnaik. "Besides home secretary, secretary of steel and mines and director...
01:15 AM, May 05, 2013
Balasore: The Economic Offence Wing (EOW) of Crime Branch of Odisha Police on Friday broke open the office of the Saradha Group in Balasore and seized certain documents relating to alleged duping of gullible investors in the district. The officials of the EOW with the help of the local police and in presence of a magistrate broke open the doors of Saradha Group's main office at Fakir Mohan Gole, the...
03:02 AM, May 04, 2013
Cuttack: After the Odisha Assembly Speaker Pradeep Kumar Amat disposed the state NCP chief's disqualification petition against four party MLAs, the Orissa High court on Friday dropped the contempt proceedings initiated against the Speaker. The NCP chief Utkal Keshari Parida's petition seeking disqualification of four NCP MLAs, who switched alliance to the ruling BJD, was pending before the Speaker since March 2013. Contempt of court case was filed against the...
12:20 AM, May 04, 2013
Keonjhar: Tulasi Munda, a woman who never got to go to school herself, is leading the education revolution amongst tribals in Odisha. She set up a night school for the children of other tribals. Being a little girl born at the cusp of freedom in the tribal belt of Odisha, her life was never going to be easy. Like thousands of other adivasi children in the mining town of Koenjhar,...
11:29 AM, May 03, 2013
Koraput: Optimistic of bringing the Maoist menace under control to a great extent in Odisha soon, Director General of Police (DGP) Prakash Mishra on Thursday appealed to the president of Naxal outfit Chasi Muliya Adivasi Sangh (CMAS) Nachika Linga to surrender. "Linga is not going to achieve anything through violence. I appeal to him to surrender and to return to the mainstream society," the DGP said at Koraput after reviewing...
02:44 AM, May 03, 2013
Bhubaneswar: A scam as big as the chit fund fraud in West Bengal has been exposed, but this time it is in Odisha. A CNN-IBN exclusive shows how fraudulent investment companies are duping investors in the state. Investors have been swindled off nearly Rs 20,000 crore by 40 finance companies in Odisha. Seashore Group, one of the companies being probed by Odisha police, has duped over 80,000 investors and collected...
06:38 PM, May 01, 2013
Bhubaneswar: A day after the state government giving the go-ahead, the Economic Offence Wing (EOW) of Crime branch of Odisha Police on Tuesday registered a criminal case against the Saradha Group which allegedly duped gullible investors in Balasore and Puri districts. A team of the EOW on Tuesday rushed to Balasore and recorded statements of certain depositors at the district police headquarters in the Northen Odisha town. "We have registered...
10:55 PM, Apr 30, 2013
Bolangir: Protests by villagers displaced by the Lower Suktel power project turned violent at Bolangir on Monday. As many as 40 people were injured when the protestors clashed with police. 16 people were arrested. Villagers affected by the project staged a road blockade for over 2 hours, demanding higher compensation. ...
09:15 AM, Apr 30, 2013
Bhubaneswar: With investors hitting the streets across Odisha demanding return of their deposits with Saradha Group, the state government on Monday asked the police crime branch to take up the matter with their West Bengal counterparts. The government also instructed the police to take help of RBI and SEBI to nail the ponzy scheme outfits. "The Economic Offence Wing (EOW) of the crime branch of police will take up the...
02:19 AM, Apr 30, 2013
Balasore: A fire broke out in Chandipur's ammunition depot in Odisha early Monday morning. The fire broke out at 4 am in the ammunition testing centre of the Proof and Experimental Establishment or PXE. "The fire triggered explosions as it erupted in the magazine store of the Proof and Experimental Establishment (PXE) where shells and ammunition of different capacities and sizes are stored for test," Officer In-Charge of Chandipur police...
08:08 AM, Apr 29, 2013
Cuttack: The Odisha government is mulling to move the High Court challenging the January 23 decision of the State Administrative Tribunal in which it had set aside the government's dismissal order of a disgraced police inspector. Amulya Kumar Champatiray, in his capacity as inspector in-charge of Pipili police station in November 2011, had refused to register an FIR and conduct probe into a rape and attempt to murder incident of...
02:36 PM, Apr 28, 2013
New Delhi: Expressing concern over the misuse of central funds in Odisha, a delegation led by state Congress president Niranjan Patnaik met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to seek a need-based financial package for the state, party leaders said in Delhi on Saturday. "The prime minister has said that there is no discrimination whatsoever with Odisha as is being claimed by the state government, and under the revised guidelines of backwardness,...
06:01 AM, Apr 28, 2013
New Delhi: A delegation of Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee on Friday met Finance Minister P Chidambaram and demanded a financial package for the state on the lines of special allocation for Bihar and conferment of special category status. It also demanded setting up of a high-level fast track inquiry against the BJD government in the state to "expose massive mis-utilisation of public funds". The delegation led by PCC President Niranjan...
12:45 AM, Apr 27, 2013
Baripada: A 15-year-old school girl was allegedly gangraped by two youths and her picture in compromising position taken on mobile phones by the accused at a village in Odisha's Mayurbhanj district, police said. The girl was allegedly gangraped while she had gone to a village pond for attending nature's call on Wednesday evening in Sanasimula village, about 55 kilometer from Baripada, police said. Police has arrested two youths - Bhabani...
04:46 AM, Apr 26, 2013
Balasore: Indian Air Force on Wednesday conducted the test fire of its short range surface-to-air missile "OSA-AK" from Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur, 15 km from here. "It was a routine trial carried out by the IAF to train its personnel," said a defence official. On Wednesday, three rounds of trials were conducted targeting a tow body supported by pilot less target aircraft (PTA) 'Lakshya'. OSA AK is a...
08:10 PM, Apr 24, 2013
Bhubaneswar: With the BJD intensifying its anti-Centre tirade accusing it of neglecting Odisha, opposition Congress on Monday said the ruling party was trying to "exploit" the sentiments of the people by making such allegations. "BJD is simply exploiting the sentiment of people by taking name of special category state status for Odisha and alleging Central negligence," Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC) president Niranjan Patnaik told reporters. Claiming that the BJD's...
03:00 AM, Apr 23, 2013
