Bhubaneswar: The heat wave continues to grip northern India with the Met department predicting a further rise in temperatures.
The heat wave continued unabated in Delhi on Thursday with the minimum temperature settling five notches above average at 31.4 degrees Celsius and the maximum expected to hover around the 45 degrees Celsius mark.
"Heatwave conditions would continue across the national capital. The maximum temperature on Thursday is expected to be around 45 degrees Celsius," an India Meteorological Department (IMD) official said. Humidity at 8.30 am was recorded at 31 per cent.
On Wednesday, the maximum temperature in New Delhi settled five notches above average at 44.9 degrees Celsius while the minimum was recorded at 30.3 degrees Celsius, four notches above average for this time of the season....
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11:03 AM, May 23, 2013
Bhubaneswar: Chief of controversial non-banking financial institution (NBFI) Artha Tatwa (AT) Group Pradip Sethi, was arrested and sent to jail on Monday on charges of cheating investors in different parts of Odisha. Sethi, who was playing hide and seek with police for the past three months, was finally nabbed on Sunday night and produced in a court here on Monday. "Sethi has been remanded to judicial custody for 14 days,"...
05:50 PM, May 13, 2013
Bhubaneswar: Chaos broke out at Bhubaneswar's Biju Patnaik airport on Sunday night after three flights had to make emergency landings following inclement weather. Heavy showers and rough skies led to the flights landing at Bhubaneswar. The aircraft that made emergency landings due to gutsy winds included two Indigo flights from Raipur to Kolkata and Bangalore to Kolkata, Airport Director Sharad Kumar said said. The Air India flight from Agartala to...
08:41 AM, May 13, 2013
Bhubaneswar: Anti-POSCO leader Abhaya Sahoo has been arrested from the Bhubaneswar airport on charges of instigating violence at the POSCO site. Abhaya was about to board a flight in Bhubaneswar when he was arrested by the Jagatsinghpur police. Abhaya is the chairman of 'POSCO Pratirodh Sangram Samiti' which has been spearheading the anti-POSCO movement for the past eight years. He was earlier arrested on similar charges and was on bail....
10:50 AM, May 11, 2013
Bhubaneswar: Opposition BJP in Odisha on Friday demanded resignation of state finance minister Prasanna Acharya in the wake of a Commission finding fault with the drugs administration for spurious liquor tragedy of February 2012 that claimed 41 lives. "Acharya, who was then the state's health minister should resign from the ministry on moral grounds," BJP state president KV Singhdeo demanded at a media conference Bhubaneswar. Though the then excise minister...
01:30 AM, May 11, 2013
Bhubaneswar: One person was killed and eight others injured, some of them critically, when one of the fire crackers they were making exploded in a village in Odisha's Puri district, police said on Monday. The incident occurred at Srikanthapur village under Pipili police station area, about 20 km from state capital Bhubaneswar on Sunday when the men were making the fire crackers in the backyard of a house. The crackers...
10:20 AM, Apr 15, 2013
Bhubaneswar: With the CAG slamming the Odisha government over allotment of valuable land in Bhubaneswar city, the Congress today held Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik responsible for flouting of law in the process and demanded an independent probe into the matter by an independent agency like CBI. "The CAG report shows that the chief minister is solely responsible for allotment of valuable land by violating the law and misusing power. There...
03:59 AM, Apr 09, 2013
Bhubaneswar: Odisha Assembly on Thursday unanimously adopted a resolution requesting the Centre to award special category status to the state and provide additional central grants and fiscal incentives for its development. A motion in this regard, moved by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, was supported by all political parties, including the main opposition Congress. The resolution was passed in the House after seven-hour long discussion on the subject. This was for...
11:14 PM, Apr 04, 2013
The Kerala Police have taken Bitti Mohanty, convicted in March 2006 for raping a 26-year-old German national in a hotel in Alwar, back to Kannur after questioning him in Cuttack. Bitti will remain in the custody of the Kerala Police till March 21. ...
08:33 AM, Mar 18, 2013
The Odisha Police on Sunday arrested the son of former Law Minister Raghunath Mohanty in the dowry torture case filed by his wife. Raghunath Mohanty had to resign as Law Minister after his daughter-in-law, Barsha, filed the case against him, his son Rajasree, his wife and other family members. ...
09:45 AM, Mar 17, 2013
Kerala Police on Saturday began questioning of rape convict Bitti Mohanty's father BB Mohanty in Cuttack. Earlier there was a delay in questioning the former Odisha DGP as they did not have permission from the Kerala DGP. Bitti's father is being interrogated for his role in helping his son evade arrest for seven years. ...
01:30 PM, Mar 16, 2013
The identity of German woman rape case convict Bitti Mohanty was on Saturday established after Kerala Police matched his finger prints and examined records. ...
07:29 AM, Mar 16, 2013
Kerala Police on Friday confirmed that rape convict Bitti Mohanty forged his B.Tech certificate from KIIT University in Bhubaneswar and the certificate is in the name of Raghav Rajan, the alias he used for several years while living in Kannur in Kerala. ...
12:27 PM, Mar 15, 2013
A team of Kerala Police team is likely to interrogate rape convict Bitty Mohanty's father and former Odisha DGP BB Mohanty on Friday. BB Mohanty had on Thursday refused to speak to the media about the case. The police will also visit Bitti's school and college to conclusively establish his identity. ...
09:17 AM, Mar 15, 2013
At least 115 child rape cases have been registered in 59 days, the month of January and February this year, in Odisha, the state assembly was informed on Thursday. These child rape cases were reported in 30 of the 36 police districts in the state, Women and Child Development Minister Usha Devi said while replying to a written question in the Assembly. ...
10:40 PM, Mar 14, 2013
In March 2006, Bitti Mohanty was sentenced to seven years by a Rajasthan court for raping a German tourist. Eight months later, Bitti, the son of the then DG Home Guard in Odisha Police, jumped parole. His father BB Mohanty was accused of helping him and a non-bailable warrant was issued against him. ...
09:50 AM, Mar 09, 2013
At least 50 persons, including women, were injured when private college teachers and security personnel fought a pitched battle in front of the Odisha assembly in Bhubaneswar on Friday, the police said. ...
10:36 PM, Feb 22, 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 1999, she was gangraped on the outskirts of Bhubaneswar by three local goons. The CBI took the case, but the prime accused was never arrested. While the other two accused were convicted, the rape survivor believes the inability of the police to apprehend rape accused and escaped rape convicts like Biti Mohanty just encourage violent crime against women. ...
08:31 AM, Jan 08, 2013
At least six elephants were killed after being hit by a train in Odisha's Ganjam district early on Sunday, officials said. The Chennai-bound Coromandel Express hit a herd of elephants between Rambha and Huma stations, about 150 km from Bhubaneswar. ...
11:55 AM, Dec 30, 2012
