The body of a woman, who reportedly had gone missing after being dragged away by a crocodile in the Brahmani River while she was washing utensils, recovered from the river on Tuesday morning.
The festival was organized by Kalpana Foundation. On the second day of the festival, poets recited poems in Bhitarkanika National Park in a boat.
Rituals associated with the Holi festival of the royal family had begun with the hymning of devotional songs and spontaneous dance to the tune of drums.
The fraudster was arrested after one of his victims- a teacher in a Delhi-based school, had lodged a complaint at the Mahila police station here.
Unit Head IFFCO Patel along besides the representatives from Employees’ Union and Officers Association graced the occasion.
The 35-year-old woman, a cervical cancer patient, was observing a fasting ritual at the Shiva temple premises in Keredagada village to get cured of the disease on Wednesday night when three miscreants finding her alone tried to rape her, police said on Friday.
The accused has been booked under sections of the IPC and POCSO Act, the officer said, adding further investigation is on.
Inspired by Netaji, the legal practitioner here has preserved some of the rare photographs related to the life of the great revolutionary freedom fighter.
The number of saltwater crocodiles, the species which are not found in any other river system in Odisha, as per the latest census, in Bhitarkanika wildlife sanctuary stood is estimated to be 1742 as per the latest census.
Homeless Khirod Jena (58), a landless daily wage earner in Raghudeipur village of Kendrapara district, has been living in the 7 feet x 6 feet Swachh Bharat toilet along with his wife and two daughters
