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
A 19-year-old woman was killed by her father in Odisha as she was late in serving food to him, police said on Wednesday. ...
03:40 AM, Jan 31, 2013
The ICC endorsed the decision of the OCA to allow the Pakistan players to stay at the Club House located inside the stadium premises. ...
11:24 PM, Jan 30, 2013
Pakistan women's cricket team found itself embroiled in a controversy when media reports claimed they were put up in sub-standard accommodation in Cuttack. CNN-IBN found otherwise. ...
10:33 PM, Jan 29, 2013
Pakistan's women cricketers took to their first net practice amid tight security at the Barabati Stadium. ...
11:44 PM, Jan 28, 2013
Bajrang Dal activists took out processions in the city and blocked roads. ...
07:10 PM, Jan 24, 2013
The ABVP's Odisha unit on Tuesday protested outside the Bhubaneswar airport over the participation of the Pakistani cricket team in the upcoming women's world cup tournament. The activists protested outside the airport where BCCI members arrived earlier on Tuesday morning. They are to assess preparations for the matches. ...
02:01 PM, Jan 22, 2013
In a barbaric sexual assault, six men allegedly gangraped a woman after tying up her husband on the premises of a district hospital in Mayurbhanj, Odisha. The 25-year-old tribal woman of Dantiamuha village had gone to the hospital on Sunday along with her husband to see her ailing brother, who was admitted to the hospital following an accident, police said on Monday. ...
10:19 PM, Jan 21, 2013
OCA secretary Asribad Behera said conducting such an international tournament would add to the glory of the state. ...
07:07 PM, Jan 21, 2013
A class seven student of an upper primary school in Odisha's Ganjam district allegedly committed suicide due to his parent's failure to pay contribution for his school picnic, police said on Monday. Balaram Nayak (12) allegedly committed suicide by hanging in the house at Gobara under Gangapur police station limit, about 70-km from Berhampur after returning from the school on Saturday as his parents could not pay the required money...
12:35 PM, Jan 21, 2013
A woman died after being raped and burnt by a man in Odisha's Balasore district November last year, her mother alleged on Sunday. ...
02:21 AM, Jan 21, 2013
A woman died after being raped and burnt by a man in Odisha's Balasore district November, 2012, her mother alleged on Sunday. The daily wage earner, a resident of Soro, 170 km from Bhubaneswar, said her 20-year-old daughter had gone to the house of a family friend at Teliaganj, a nearby village on an invitation on November 4. ...
08:21 PM, Jan 20, 2013
False promise of marriage to a woman has landed a man behind bars in Odisha's Kandhamal district, police said in Odisha on Saturday. Pratap Bisoi of Kelapada village was arrested on Friday on charge of betraying the woman, who is now pregnant, sub-divisional police officer (SDPO), Phulbani, Govind Sethi said. ...
01:45 PM, Jan 19, 2013
While the trial in the Kandhamal nun rape case at the district and sessions court in Cuttack has been stayed by the Supreme Court for over a year, the Orissa High Court has granted bail to yet another accused in the case. With this, the number of accused getting bail in the case has gone up to 23. ...
01:25 PM, Jan 15, 2013
In 2005, the Odisha government had passed an order to set up a 'Woman & Child' desk in every police station in the state. Eight years on, the scheme seems to exists only on paper. ...
08:33 AM, Jan 14, 2013
A Rs 300 crore package for housing and roads for vulnerable tribal groups in Odisha's backward Kalahandi district was announced on Sunday by Union minister Jairam Ramesh who said tribals should not be treated as "show pieces for museums". Giving details near the bauxite-rich Niyamgiri hill, the Union Rural Development Minister said Rs 200 crore would be allocated for providing houses under Indira Awas Yojana to vulnerable tribals living in...
02:22 AM, Jan 14, 2013
