Bhubaneswar, April 23 (IANS) In the wake of reports of heatstroke cases and assault incidents involving census workers, the Odisha Revenue and Disaster Management (R&DM) Department on Thursday issued a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for the safety and security of census functionaries.Additional Chief Secretary of the Revenue and Disaster Management Department, Arabinda Kumar Padhee, in a letter addressed to Collectors, Municipal Commissioners, and Superintendents of Police, stated that t…
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Bhubaneswar, March 22 (IANS) Odisha Police on Sunday arrested five persons in two separate cases involving the rape and murder of a 17-year-old girl in Dhenkanal district and the killing of a 14-year-old girl in Mayurbhanj district.In the first case, Dhenkanal district police arrested four persons, including the prime accused Gangadhar Patra alias Jaga (38), a resident of Santarapur village under Kamakhyanagar police limits, in connection with the rape and murder of a minor college student.Polic…
Bhubaneswar, March 9 (IANS) As many as 54 communal riots were registered across different districts of Odisha between June 2024 and February 2026, informed Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi on Monday. While answering a query by BJD MLA Goutam Buddha Das, in the state Assembly on Monday, CM Majhi revealed that 24 of the 54 communal violence cases were registered at various police stations in Balasore district alone, making it the district with the highest number of such incidents in the state dur…
Bhubaneswar, Jan 23 (IANS) Veteran Congress leader and party’s General Secretary (Organisation), K.C. Venugopal, on Friday, condemned the alleged attack on a pastor and members of the Christian community in the Parjang area of Odisha’s Dhenkanal district on January 4, and demanded the immediate arrest of all those involved. In a letter written to the Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi, Venugopal alleged that a mob of around 40 persons, reportedly comprisin…
Bhubaneswar, Jan 5 (IANS) Binu Janata Dal (BJD) on Monday expressed deep grief over the tragic explosion that occurred in a stone/dolomite mine in Gopalpur village of Dhenkanal district on Saturday, in which two people lost their precious lives and demanded the immediate arrest of the persons responsible for this tragic incident. Speaking at a press conference on Monday, the BJD Spokesperson and Media Coordinator Lenin Mohanty informed that the unfortunate incident took place in Gopalpur village…