Bhubaneswar: The Crime Branch of Odisha Police on Wednesday arrested the CMD of Seashore Group, Prasant Das from Mumbai on charge of duping small investors of crores of rupees, a senior police officer said.
Das, who was on the run after several cases were made against him and his company, had come to meet someone at the Fort area in Mumbai when the special team of the Crime Branch nabbed him.
"Das, for some time was staying at Silvassa, the capital of Dadra and Nagar Haveli," the officer said adding that the Crime Branch arrested him in connection with a cheating case made at Semiliguda Police Station in Koraput district.
While informing media about the most wanted ponzi company CMD, Crime Branch ADG BK Sharma said Das would be produced in a local court of Mumbai tomorrow. The CB sleuths had been camping in Mumbai for the past seven days to nab Das, who had been absconding....
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11:31 PM, Jun 19, 2013
Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has announced more than a dozen sops in the past one year with an eye on the Assembly elections. He's announced everything from laptops, shoes and umbrellas to free mobile phones for over 15,000 farmers. With laptops, mobiles, shoes, umbrellas, blankets, cycles and Re 1 per kg of rice, Patnaik is on a distribution spree in Odisha. Since the aborted coup by his former...
09:30 AM, Jun 19, 2013
Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Tuesday distributed 5,000 mobile phone sets among farmers while launching the scheme. "The farmers can access the market information related to agriculture through the mobile phones," Patnaik said, adding that they would get voice calls and SMS in Odia language. Inaugurating the Digital Bazaar programme at Exhibition ground in Bhubaneswar, Patnaik said about 15,000 beneficiaries will get the free phones in the first...
01:41 AM, Jun 19, 2013
New Delhi: A Planning Commission report on Gujarat has revealed that the state's growth may not be as "inclusive" as its Chief Minister Narendra Modi claims. The reports states that while Gujarat had a good record in infrastructure development, its health and education sectors did not fare well. The report further reveals that poorer states, like Odisha, did better than Gujarat in lifting people from below the poverty line. Odisha...
06:18 PM, Jun 18, 2013
Bhubaneswar: A tribal woman travelling in an air-conditioned luxury bus was allegedly raped by helper of the vehicle while other passengers were fast asleep. The incident took place on Sunday night when the 25-year-old survivor was travelling in a private bus running from Mayurbhanj to Bhubaneswar. "The accused bus helper has been arrested and forwarded to the court," said deputy commissioner of police (DCP) Pravin Kumar adding that the matter...
04:55 PM, Jun 18, 2013
Bhubaneswar: A 27-year-old tribal girl was allegedly raped in a moving bus early on Monday morning. The police have arrested one person, who is believed to be the driver's helper. According to the police, there were about five to six other passengers on board the bus. All the passengers are believed to have been sleeping when the incident occurred. The girl was allegedly dumped at the Cuttack bus stand later....
09:56 AM, Jun 18, 2013
Bhubaneswar: Incessant rains damaged hundreds of bags of harvested paddy left under the open skies in three Odisha districts of Kalahandi, Rayagada and Koraput, officials said on Sunday. The rain lashed many parts of the state during the past four days -- as the monsoon set in across the state and a low-pressure belt also formed -- damaging standing paddy crops too in over 1,500 acres in the three districts...
05:15 AM, Jun 17, 2013
Bhubaneswar: Terming Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik's allegation of Odisha's neglect by the Centre as "baseless" and a ploy to hide his "inefficiency", Congress on Sunday demanded a white paper on central funds released to the state and their utilisation. "The Chief Minister is misleading people with wrong information on central funds to Odisha. This strategy is aimed at covering the BJD government's inefficiency," Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC) president Jayadev...
02:24 AM, Jun 17, 2013
Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, who had submitted a memorandum to Pranab Mukherjee demanding special category status for Odisha, on Thursday said the President would go through it and take action accordingly. "The President said he will go through the memorandum and give it to the Government of India," Patnaik said on his return from Delhi on Thursday. Patnaik, along with senior leaders of BJD, had met Mukherjee at Rashtrapati...
01:10 AM, Jun 14, 2013
New Delhi: The Biju Janata Dal will on Wednesday push the Centre to grant a special category status to Odisha. The party is holding a 'Swabhiman Samabesh' at the Ramlila Maidan on Wednesday, which will be a culmination of the BJD's 'Swabhiman Yatra'. The campaign for a special status has managed to get the support of 1 crore signatories. BJD chief Naveen Patnaik will also be present at the rally....
10:18 AM, Jun 12, 2013
Bhubaneswar: BJP on Tuesday alleged that BJD's remarks against Narendra Modi was allegedly because of a deal with Congress to escape possible CBI action in the state in the coal scam. "Naveen Patnaik is reported to have stated that Modi is not acceptable at the national level...his statement is obviously because of a deal between BJD and Congress," BJP Odisha unit general secretary and spokesman Suresh Pujary alleged at a...
12:32 AM, Jun 12, 2013
New Delhi: Naveen Patnaik-led Biju Janata Dal (BJD) on Monday accused the Centre of playing politics in fund allocations to states and neglecting Odisha's long pending demand for special category status. "Getting special category status is the genuine rights of the state. It is not a mercy, but the right (of the state). The state deserves the special category status as it fulfils all the criteria...," BJD vice-president and state...
12:57 AM, Jun 11, 2013
Puri: A 13-year-old visually impaired girl on Wednesday was brutally raped and murdered in a forest near Puri district. The accused, Banamali Barik, a driver, has been arrested. The horrific crime has led to protests by opposition political parties and several people in Bhubaneswar. Physically challenged persons along with women workers of BJP, Congress and Samata Kranti Dal set up a blockade near Sri Ram Temple in Bhubaneswar demanding action...
08:30 PM, Jun 09, 2013
Bhubaneswar: BJP on Tuesday slammed the ruling BJD in Odisha, saying the judicial probe ordered by it into the chitfund scam was a ploy to buy time even as the party activists held statewide demonstrations and burnt effigies of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik and other ministers. By ignoring the demand for a CBI probe into the scam and ordering a judicial inquiry, BJD is aiming only at delaying the process,...
12:50 AM, Jun 05, 2013
Bhubaneswar: A man who was declared "dead" by his father 11 years ago in Odisha was Tuesday found alive, police said. The bizarre incident came to light after the crime branch of Odisha Police traced Gajendra Kumar Kar in his hometown of Berhampur in Ganjam district, about 180 km from here and arrested him. He was arrested as his father's complaint that he was kidnapped and murdered was found false,...
10:25 PM, Jun 04, 2013
New Delhi: For effective governance and providing affordable access to communication, the Union Cabinet Tuesday decided to install mobile towers in nine Maoist-hit states, including Chhattisgarh where the rebels killed several Congress leaders May 25. The approval to the project was given by the Union Cabinet in a meeting held here. Mobile towers would be installed at 2,199 locations in nine states - Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Madhya...
10:21 PM, Jun 04, 2013
Bhubaneswar: A 45-year-old man killed four members of his family before committing suicide in Odisha's Keonjhar district early Tuesday, police said. The incident took place at Ganda Barai village, about 265 km from Bhubaneswar. Srikrishna Mahanta killed his wife (40), daughter (16), son (14), and elder sister (50) with an axe while they were sleeping before setting himself and the bodies of his family members on fire, Baidyanath Sahu, a...
02:40 PM, Jun 04, 2013
Bhubaneswar: Odisha government will seek deployment of two additional battalions of CRPF jawans along its borders with Chhatisgarh following the the May 25 deadly Maoist attack in that state. "Odisha government will make the demand to the Centre for two battalions of CRPF at the Chief Ministers' meeting on internal security in New Delhi on June 5," state Home Secretary UN Behera said on Monday. The state government, he said,...
11:33 PM, Jun 03, 2013
Cardiff: Criticised for maintaining a stoic silence on the IPL spot-fixing scandal, Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni Tuesday said that the number one ranking in the ODIs brings with it certain respect in the way the players "conduct themselves" on the field. "Being number one in the world brings with it a certain respect for the game itself and for the way in which we play the game and conduct...
10:09 PM, Jun 03, 2013
Bhubaneswar: Odisha Jan Morcha (OJM) leader Pyarimohan Mohapatra on Saturday said he has got positive signals from BJP central leaders on possible pre-poll alliance with the party ahead of the 2014 general elections. Mohapatra, a Rajya Sabha MP from the state, said "I am in touch with the BJP's central leaders. They have given positive signal on the proposal of a OJM-BJP alliance in the state." Mohapatra said this after...
12:25 AM, Jun 02, 2013
