Three hardcore women Maoist cadres, involved in multiple attacks on security forces and carrying combined Rs 8 lakh cash reward on their heads, were arrested on Saturday by police forces in Malkangiri district, widely regarded as Odisha’s Naxal hotbed.
Tigress Zeenat has caught all the forest officials on the wrong foot as she has shifted to nearby Manbazar from Raika Hills in Bandwan, the forest minister of Odisha, Ganesh Ram Singhkhuntia has said that all efforts will be taken to bring back the Big Cat in Similipal Tiger Reserve.
Chairman IOCL A.S. Sahney met Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi on Tuesday to discuss progress of various ongoing and upcoming projects of IOCL in Odisha, said an official.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi on Monday.
Twenty-four villages of the state will be declared Tsunami-ready by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO (IOC-UNESCO) in Hyderabad on December 26, two decades after the 2004 devastating Tsunami that hit them.
Since the change of governance with BJP coming to power four months back in Odisha, the anti-corruption Vigilance wing of state police has booked 24 Class-1 officers among 123 persons under prevention of corruption act, an official of anti-graft wing said on Monday.
The rights panel taking note of human rights lawyer Radhakanta Tripathy’s complaint sought for compliance of a report within next eight weeks.
Vast areas in the city were inundated following torrential rain which hit Kolkata this morning as a fallout of the cyclonic storm Dana which made a landfall between Bhitorkonika and Dhamra in Odisha early today.
In the latest offensive against Left-wing extremism, security forces gunned down a Maoist during a combing operation in forested areas of Odisha’s Kandhamal district on Friday.
According to a statement from the office of Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Majhi on Friday, "We have achieved our target of zero casualties due to proper planning and execution”.
