Cuttack: The crime branch of Odisha Police probing the sensational Pipili Dalit rape case on Friday submitted a medical examination report prepared by experts from AIIMS to the Orissa High Court. Submitting the report in a sealed cover, the government advocate prayed that since the case is under investigation, the contents of the AIIMS report may not be made public now lest it hamper further probe. The police also submitted...
11:42 PM, Feb 10, 2012
Bhubaneswar: Four BSF officers, including a Commanding Officer, were on Friday killed in an IED blast by suspected Maoists in Malkangiri district of Odisha. The BSF squad was targeted at around 1 pm in the Janbai area of the district, under Chitragonda police station area, 465 kms from here, and its jungles are a Naxal hotbed as it touches the borders of two other states - Andhra Pradesh and Chhattisgarh,...
04:37 PM, Feb 10, 2012
New Delhi: A latest report prepared by the civil aviation ministry has made some startling revelations. The report indicates that a mere 14 per cent of scheduled flights which operate in the country cater to a mammoth 55 per cent of the nation's total population. The report states that Haryana, Sikkim, Puducherry, and Dadra and Nagar Haveli have almost zero connectivity, while 11 states - Uttar Pradesh, Uttrakhand, Bihar, Chhattisgarh,...
09:31 AM, Feb 04, 2012
New Delhi: A fast track court in Phulbani, Orissa, on Tuesday sentenced eight accused in the 2008 Kandhamal communal riots to five years imprisonment. Nineteen others were, however, acquitted by the court. The riots occurred in Kandhamal, a tribal-dominated district, in the aftermath of the killing of VHP leader Laxmanananda Saraswati at the Jalespata Ashram on August 23, 2008. Hindu groups in the state blamed Christians for killing Lakshmanananda. They...
07:23 PM, Jan 31, 2012
Bhubaneshwar: A Dalit girl who was allegedly raped in Pipli in Odisha will be shifted to AIIMS in New Delhi this week for better treatment. The girl was raped by a man in her village in November 2011. She has been in a coma ever since. Earlier in the day, the Odisha government ordered a judicial probe into the episode to identify the persons responsible for the incident. "Chief Minister...
07:44 AM, Jan 14, 2012
Bhubaneshwar: A follow-up to an IBN Cobrapost investigations into the Orissa land scandal showed how Supreme Court guidelines were bypassed to allot land meant for the disadvantaged and war widows, to judges, who already own property. Land that was meant for the economically disadvantaged, war widows and people with special needs was allotted to judges who owned not one but two and sometimes, even more, properties. The investigations show how...
07:18 AM, Jan 13, 2012
New Delhi: The Opposition Congress in Odisha has kicked up a storm demanding that all housing allotments made from the ministers' discretionary quota be cancelled. OPCC chief Niranjan Patnaik said, "All allotments so far should be cancelled, action should be taken against those ministers responsible irrespective of party lines. A CNN-IBN-Cobrapost expose in November, 2011, had shown that judges and their children, along with bureaucrats and ministers had benefitted from...
01:10 PM, Jan 12, 2012
Bhubaneswar: It is not just the judges and their children who benefited from the ministers discretionary quota in Orissa, but fellow ministers have also been beneficiaries of the same quota. Former revenue minister Manmohan Samal insists he is anti-corruption, but his house, No 256 in the BDA's Baramuda Development Scheme, came to him from former Urban Development Minister Sameer Dey's discretionary quota. The flat is registered in the name of...
09:23 PM, Jan 11, 2012
Bhubaneswar: A Cobrapost-IBN Network investigation had in November 2011 revealed how judges, IPS officers and bureaucrats from Orissa received plots, meant for the economically disadvantaged, war widows and people with special needs, through the discretionary quota of ministers. A follow up to that investigation has now shown how it is not just judges, but their children as well who have benefited from the quota. Orissa is seeing a real estate...
08:58 PM, Jan 11, 2012
Bhubaneshwar: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday admitted that China had overtaken India in the arena of science. Speaking at a science congress in Orissa, the PM emphasised that India needed greater investment in the field of science to be able to catch up with China. "As far as resources are concerned, the fraction of the GDP spent on Research and Development in India has been too low and stagnant,"...
12:10 PM, Jan 03, 2012
Paradip: A man was killed and 25 others were injured on Wednesday in a clash between anti-Posco brigade and a private contractor over construction of a coastal road linking the steel plant site near Paradip. Jagatsinghpur SP S Devadutt Singh said crude bombs and other weapons were used by the clashing groups and a person, identified as Dijabar Swain (30) of Kujanga area, died in the violence. Two others, who...
09:12 PM, Dec 14, 2011
Keonjhar: The Centre appointed Shah Commission led by former Supreme Court judge Justice MB Shah on Thursday formally began investigation into illegal mining in Odisha. The Commission held a discussion with the district authorities of Keonjhar and Sundergarh besides authorities of the railways, Indian Bureau of Mines (IBM) and forest officials. "We have supplied documents and replied to the queries made by the commission during the meeting," Keonjhar district magistrate...
08:05 PM, Dec 08, 2011
Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government on Wednesday directed all development authorities and the State Housing Board to stop allotment of land, plots and houses based on discretionary quota after facing criticism from different quarters over "gross misuse" of the same. Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik issued this direction which would be effective immediately, an official at the CMO said. In case of land allotment in the state capital by the general administration...
08:03 PM, Dec 07, 2011
Bhubaneswar: Orissa has been renamed Odisha after President Pratibha Patil approved the State Assembly's 2008 resolution. The language Oriya will now be called Odia. Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has declared a holiday on Saturday to mark this 'historic' date. "To celebrate this historic decision, Saturday will be a holiday for all schools, all colleges and all state government offices in Odisha," Patnaik said. Sweets were distributed among those present at...
07:32 AM, Nov 05, 2011
Bhubaneswar: Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Thursday promised a probe after a Cobrapost-IBN investigation showed how bureaucrats and judges were allotted flats under his ministers' discretionary quota. This came hours after former Orissa urban development minister K V Singhdeo said that he was ready to face probe in the land allotment controversy. An investigation by Cobrapost and IBN Network had revealed how former and sitting judges of Orissa, police...
07:23 PM, Nov 03, 2011
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