Akshaya Kumar Sahoo
Vocational training helps former landowners
A year ago, Prabhat Kumar Behera, the 21-year-old son of Prasanna Behera, a resident of Maniabeda village in Odisha’s Dhenkanal district, lived in despair and hopelessness.
‘Naveen is nervous at BJP’s growth’
The BJP on Sunday said the Orissa chief minister Naveen Patnaik was nervous at the rapid growth of the BJP in several urban local bodies (ULBs) which are going to polls on September 18.
Orissa: 3 kids among 6 killed in wall collapse
Four persons, including three children, were killed and six others injured when an old building collapsed at pilgrim city Puri, nearly 65 km from here, on Saturday night.
Bar-coding for official orissa letters
The information technology department of the Orissa government has mooted a proposal for bar-coding of official despatches to prevent forgery of official letters issued on the internet.
A-G faces charge of shielding ponzi czar
The BJP on Monday brought serious charges against the Orissa advocate general (A-G) Ashok Mohanty saying that the latter colluded with a chit fund czar to shield him against “strong” legal actions.
4 BSF jawans killed in Orissa Maoist ambush
At least four Border Security Force (BSF) jawans were on Tuesday killed and two others injured when suspected Maoists triggered landmine explosion at Sunki Ghat near Pattangi in Orissa’s Koraput district, nearly 550 km from here.
Padma Shri awardee Panigrahi dies at 82
Acclaimed classical singer and music director Padma Shri Pandit Raghunath Panigrahi passed away in Bhubaneswar on Sunday morning, his son Parthasarathi Panigrahi.
14 dalit students leave Orissa school over ‘bias’
In the latest case of caste-related controversy in Orissa, over a dozen of dalit students have allegedly left a government-run upper primary school for good. The students dropped out to register their protest against the removal of a dalit cook by the school management.
8-year-old girl raped, murdered in Orissa
A youth on Tuesday allegedly raped an eight-year-old girl and later strangled her to death at a city slum here. According to the relatives of the victim, the youth came to the Saliasahi slum in the morning and asked the girl to help him identify a particular person’s house in the locality.
Gram Sabha says no to bauxite mining
In a major blow to the Orissa government plan to mine bauxite from Niyamgiri hill in Kalahandi district, the 12th and final Gram Sabha held on Monday at Jarapa village rejected the proposal.
