Human remains stuffed in a suitcase and two bags were found from Hirakud Express on Tuesday in Visakhapatnam by Government Railway Police (GRP), an official said. "The remains were found stuffed in a suitcase and two bags which were found abandoned in S7 and S8 compartments of Hirakud Express which arrived here in the wee hours from Amritsar", said a GRP officer. ...
02:09 AM, Mar 27, 2013
The defending champions will be boosted by the return of India pacer Shami Ahmed. ...
08:55 PM, Feb 13, 2013
A few weather-beaten shipping containers, a swathe of sand and a bitterly divided village: that is all South Korea's POSCO has to show seven years after it announced plans for a $12 billion steel mill on a fertile strip in Odisha. Last week, the project took a step forward as land was taken over from farmers for the first time since 2011, and yet Posco is still a long way...
08:36 PM, Feb 10, 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
After the small cameo in the recent 'Urumi', talented Bollywood actress Tabu will be seen once again for the new Malayalam movie 'Orissa'. The director of the movie, M Padmakumar has already approached the actress and is waiting for the green signal. This movie, a love story in the backdrop of Orissa is scripted by 'Vellaripravinte Chengathi' fame G S Anil. Tabu was first seen in Malayalam for the super...
01:13 PM, Sep 01, 2012
After a promising commercial comeback with his recent hit 'Mallu Singh', Unni Mukundan is selecting his roles cautiously. His careful selections has helped him to land on fine projects, the latest being the movie 'Orissa'. The film is directed by M Padmakumar. The movie will be a reality tale setup in the backdrop of Orissa, one of the economically backward state of India. It is a love story between an...
04:16 PM, Aug 17, 2012
Bhubaneswar: Curtains were drawn on the four-and-a-half-month-old alleged baby swapping drama at a Cuttack hospital on Saturday when one of the two warring women accepted the unclaimed girl child following direction of the Orissa High Court. "I am extremely delighted to take back my child. Now I have no doubt that this baby is ours," Rashmita Mallick, the mother of the baby Atmaja told reporters after formally accepting the child....
06:51 PM, Aug 11, 2012
For the second time in two days, half of India plunged into darkness after the Northern and the Eastern Grids collapsed. ...
05:31 PM, Jul 31, 2012
The Orissa Public Service Commission was constituted on 1st April, 1949 after its bifurcation from the former Bihar and Orissa Joint Public Service Commission. One of the main functions of the commission is to conduct examinations and interviews for appointment to various services of the State. Functions of OPSC - Recruitment of the Candidates I. On the basis of Interview only II. On the basis of screening test & Interview...
06:48 PM, Jul 16, 2012
New Delhi: As the nation celebrates Rath Yatra, millions of pilgrims have thronged the streets of Puri to catch a glimpse of Lord Jagannath, Balaram or Subhadra. If you are not one of those fortunate ones, the National Informatics Centre has made sure that you can watch the entire yatra live at http://rathjatra.nic.in/rathjatra_2012.html. Millions of people have gathered at Puri and the rush to catch the ropes to pull the...
03:58 PM, Jun 21, 2012
Cuttack: A day after the Orissa High Court disposed of a PIL pertaining to police investigation and treatment of the Pipili gang rape victim, the Justice PK Mohanty Commission probing the incident on Wednesday issued notices to the state asking it to submit the case diaries. The commission, which had earlier issued notices to as many as five doctors, including the charge-sheeted Superintendent of SCB Medical College and Hospital DN...
12:24 AM, Jun 21, 2012
Though Pyari Mohan Mohapatra, the BJD MP and chief advisor to Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik, was at the helm of affairs in the BJD ...
11:25 AM, Jun 01, 2012
Cuttack: Prima facie criminal liability has been established against a dismissed police inspector in the rape of a 19-year-old girl at Pipli in November 2011, police on Wednesday informed the Orissa High Court. Filing an affidavit, crime branch DSP Ramesh Chandra Sethy said that inspector Amulya Kumar Champatiray, who was officiating as inspector-in-charge of Pipili police station in Puri district at the time of the incident, had wilfully neglected an...
01:46 AM, May 10, 2012
Cuttack: The Orissa High Court on Tuesday ordered DNA tests to identify the parents of the baby girl, who is lying unclaimed in a hospital in Cuttack ever since she was born on March 30 after the woman who was said to be her mother claimed that her child had been swapped. The Division Bench of Chief Justice V Gopala Gowda and Justice SK Mishra adjudicating in a writ petition...
01:32 AM, Apr 25, 2012
The Odisha Govt has said that it is facilitating the release of the 27 prisoners, demanded by two Maoist groups, within the legal framework. ...
10:16 PM, Apr 10, 2012
Koraput (Odisha): In the wake of two back-to-back abductions in Odisha, a complete ban has been imposed on the entry of foreign nationals and tourists into the Maoist-hit Koraput district. The district administration's ban follows abduction of two Italian tourists and an MLA by the Maoists in the state. District collector Sachin Jadhav has communicated this through a letter sent to all tour operators, official sources said on Tuesday. The...
01:01 PM, Apr 03, 2012
New Delhi: A whopping 7,157 cases filed by the nation's premier investigation agency Central Bureau of Investigation under the Prevention of Corruption Act are pending trial in various CBI courts across the country, and more than 20 per cent of them pertain to the four South Indian states, Orissa and Union territory of Puducherry. Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Orissa and Puducherry alone account for 1,608 (22.46 per cent)...
09:09 AM, Apr 02, 2012
Seoul: India on Monday stepped up defence, trade and security ties with South Korea. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who is in Seoul for the Nuclear Security Summit, held talks with his South Korean counterpart. Reportedly, South Korea has offered to sell nuclear reactors to India. The PM sought South Korea's support for India's quest to join international non-proliferation regimes such as the Nuclear Suppliers Group and the Missile Technology Control...
10:16 AM, Mar 26, 2012
Seoul: Investment from South Korea is a "priority" for India, visiting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Monday, adding that the government was taking "proactive" steps improve the business climate and move forward with the Posco mega steel plant project in Orissa. "Investment from Korea is a priority for India. We will take proactive steps to address investor grievances and improve the business climate in the country. Many states of...
09:54 AM, Mar 26, 2012
Bhubaneswar: Hitting out at the BJD government over the abduction of a tribal MLA, the opposition Congress and BJP in Odisha on Saturday accused it of being hand in glove with Maoists and pushing the state into anarchy by ignoring Centre's advisories. "The BJD government is hand in glove with Maoists. It was clear when Maoist-backed panchayat representatives supported BJD candidates in recent zilla parishad elections in Koraput," Leader of...
01:27 PM, Mar 24, 2012
