Illicit liquor seized, 6 arrested in Nayagarh
Nayagarh: Excise sleuths on Thursday arrested six persons and seized huge quantity of illicit liquor in Nayagarh district.
Those arrested were identified as Rabi Sahu, Bidyadhar Biswal,…
12-hour bandh stalls life at Joda
Joda: Normal life was thrown out of gear at Joda in Keonjhar district on Thursday owing to a dawn-to-dusk bandh called by Joda Development Council to push for their three-point charter of…
Over 50 agitating AYUSH docs detained by police in state capital
Bhubaneswar: Police on Thursday detained AYUSH doctors agitating near the National Health Mission (NHM) office here.
The practitioners of Ayurveda, Yoga, Unani, Siddha and Homeopathy have…
Sportspersons protest closure of Kalinga Stadium’s pool complex
Bhubaneswar: Hundreds of sportspersons and swimmers staged a dharna on the premises of Kalinga Stadium here to protest against closure of the swimming pool complex at the stadium.…
SOA professor invited to European conference at Paris
Bhubaneswar: Prof. Neeta Mohanty, Dean of the Institute of Dental Sciences (IDS) run by the SOA University here, recently presented a paper at the 5th European Conference on Clinical and…
Notorious criminal injured in police firing in state capital
Bhubaneswar: A notorious criminal, A Shiva, was injured in an exchange of fire with a special squad of Commissionerate Police at Khandagiri here on Wednesday. The encounter took place near…
The Zephyr At Zuluk
If places can intoxicate, Zuluk can create an unending hangover. While tourists around us were planning to go to the much-hyped Lachung, Pelling and Kalimpong, we settled for the…
Lawyers body demands judicial probe over CBI’s entry into HC judge’s residence
Cuttack: Members of Orissa High Court Bar Association launched a cease-work stir on Wednesday to protest against CBI sleuths entering the residence of an acting High Court judge C R Dash…
Awareness rally against use of polythene at Chhatrapur
Ganjam: Hundreds of students from different schools took out a massive awareness rally against the use of plastic bags at Chhatrapur in Ganjam district on Wednesday.
Carrying placards and…
Ruckus over MLA’s arrest: Section 144 clamped before CBI office
Bhubaneswar: Prohibitory orders under Section 144 of the CrPC were clamped in front of CBI office here on Wednesday after a group of Biju Chhatra Janata Dal (BCJD) activists and supporters…