The 48-hour bandh call given by 11 trade unions has affected Odisha. Train services and public transport system are the worst hit due to the strike. In Kerala, it seemed like a complete shutdown with no buses, taxis plying on roads. Mumbai remained normal and was unaffected by the bandh. ...
11:44 AM, Feb 20, 2013
Security arrangements have been tightened for Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi's visit in Cuttack on Tuesday. Gandhi, who arrived in the state on Monday and met party workers from western Odisha at Sambalpur, is scheduled to come to Cuttack on Tuesday morning. ...
02:58 AM, Feb 19, 2013
Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi is scheduled to undertake a two-day visit to Odisha from Monday to rejuvenate the party which has been out of power in the state since 2000. Gandhi, who is visiting the state for the first time after becoming AICC vice-president, would arrive at Sambalpur on Monday, according to Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC) president Niranjan Patnaik. ...
02:39 AM, Feb 18, 2013
The death of an engineering college student, who was 'received dead' by a private hospital in Cuttak, has sparked a controversy as family members of the deceased allege that it was a pre-planned murder. Mihir Naik, a third year BTech student of a Bhubaneswar-based private engineering college was reported missing since Thursday night. ...
11:57 AM, Feb 17, 2013
Maoist activities have flourished in the states where the Congress is not in power, union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh said on Saturday. ...
01:39 AM, Feb 17, 2013
A minor boy in Odisha's Jharsuguda district was allegedly tortured and inflicted burns with cigarette butt while in police custody in connection with a theft incident. ...
06:32 PM, Feb 16, 2013
With a five-wicket haul, Pritam turned out to be the hero in Assam's eight-wicket victory over a listless Odisha. ...
05:58 PM, Feb 16, 2013
Chairman of construction firm ARSS Subash Agarwal, who was kidnapped on Friday night, has been rescued by Andhra Pradesh Police. Police have arrested seven people and seized one revolver in connection with the case. ...
01:16 PM, Feb 16, 2013
Chairman of a construction firm, ARSS, Subash Agarwal has allegedly been kidnapped by men of another Hyderabad based company over dispute of payments of Rs 5 crore of contract work, police said on Saturday. ...
11:26 AM, Feb 16, 2013
A tea-stall owner in Cuttack doubles up as a teacher to provide free education to slum children. Every morning, the tea-stall owner, Prakash Rao, serves free milk to a bunch of kids who gather near his stall. If it weren't for the 55-year-old's initiative, the young ones wouldn't have seen the inside of a classroom. ...
09:26 AM, Feb 15, 2013
A career-best 5-wicket haul by skipper Laxmi Ratan Shukla and Manoj Tiwary's 55 helped Bengal clinch a thrilling 11-run win over Odisha. ...
08:54 PM, Feb 14, 2013
At least three people were arrested in Odisha's Sundergarh district on Tuesday for parading three women and an elderly man naked in a village for allegedly practising witchcraft, police said. ...
03:21 AM, Feb 13, 2013
The league matches will be held at Kolkata from February 14 to 23. ...
05:38 PM, Feb 09, 2013
An eight-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a middle-aged man in Odisha's Ganjam district, police said on Tuesday. ...
07:31 PM, Feb 05, 2013
Footage of a man protesting the Posco steel plant being beaten by a government land officer in Odisha has triggered outrage with activists and politicians on February 5 demanding strong action against the culprit. Sangram Mohapatra, a land officer with the state-run Orissa Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation (IDCO), was seen mercilessly beating a protestor with a stick on February 3 near Jagatsinghpur district's Gobindpur village, about 100 km from here....
05:54 PM, Feb 05, 2013
After including persons with 75 per cent disability in the subsidised Rice for Differently Abled Persons (RDP) scheme, Odisha government has decided to provide jobs to them under MGNREGA and NRLM programmes. This has been resolved at a high level meeting chaired by Chief Secretary BK Patnaik, official sources said on February 5. ...
01:50 PM, Feb 05, 2013
Land acquisition for Posco's $12 billion steel plant in Odisha's Jagatsinghpur district passed off peacefully on Monday under heavy police deployment, an official said. ...
01:20 AM, Feb 05, 2013
The land acquisition for the Rs 52,000-crore Posco steel project, which resumed amidst tight security at Gobindpur village in Odisha's Jagatsinghpur district, continued peacefully today, the state government said. Chief Secretary BK Patnaik claimed people were offering their land and betel vines on their own. "There is no violence during the land acquisition. The district administration of Jagatsinghpur and the local police have been instructed to undertake land acquisition work...
10:50 PM, Feb 04, 2013
Tension broke out at POSCO's plant in Jagatsinghpur district in Odisha after the police tried to forcibly acquire land for the steel giant that was allotted to farmers on Sunday. Betel farmers protested after the police dismantled seven betel vines. ...
08:44 AM, Feb 03, 2013
Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Saturday launched a Rs 1 per kg rice scheme for poor people in Odisha from the Maoist dominated district of Malkangiri, an official said. ...
12:39 AM, Feb 03, 2013
