MyOdia Bureau Cuttack/Bhubaneswar, Oct 24: The Bhubaneswar-Cuttack commissionerate police today had the first preparatory meeting on security arrangements for the one-day international match between India and Sri Lanka to be played at Barabati stadium in Odisha’s Cuttack city on November 2. It was decided at the meeting that the police would take charge of security […]
Myodia Bureau Bhubaneswar, Oct 24: Popular comedy actress of Odia film industry Runu (Sadhana Parija) today died of heart attack. She suffered a heart stroke at her Cuttack home and died on the way to the hospital, reports said. Runu entered the film career with Priyatama in 1978. Her other movies included ‘Batasi Jhada’, ‘Jaga […]
San Francisco, Oct 24 : Facebook, the world’s No1 biggest social media network, has launched a new app for mobile telephones that allows users to share interests with others anonymously. The new app, dubbed “Rooms”, was unveiled Thursday and is an adapted version of internet “chat rooms” and operates independently of Facebook, so users do […]
Bhubaneswar: In a tragic incident, four school students were swept away in the Barang-Puri main canal near Hanuman Vatika on Tuesday afternoon while they were bathing. Dead bodies of all four students were found from the canal after a long rescue operation. The deceased students were identified as Abhijeet Sabat, Bablu Diggal, Manas Nayak and […]
An earthquake measuring 5.1 on the Richter scale jolted northern Pakistan Friday, a media report said. The tremors were felt in Swat, Malakand, Chitral, Shangla, Upper Dir, Lower Dir and nearby areas, Geo TV reported. The epicentre was located in the Hindu Kush mountains in Afghanistan.
Jeypore: Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi visited Koraput district on Monday to meet cyclone hit farmers of the district. His programmes were scheduled at Jeypore, Laxmipur and Patangi. PCC President Jaydev Jena, congress leader Giridhara Gomango also joined Rahul Gandhi at a meeting in Jeypore. Rahul stated that the farmers of Koraput district have suffered […]
Bhubaneswar: BJD candidate Pratyusha Rajeswari Singh, wife of late MP Hemendra Chandra Singh, won the by-election for Kandhamal Lok Sabha seat trouncing BJP’s Rudramadhab Ray by a whopping 2,98,868 votes. In her debut poll battle, Pratyusha Rajeswari secured 4,77,529 votes, while Rudramadhab Ray polled 1,78,661 votes. Congress candidate Abhimanyu Behera was pushed to the third […]
Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government on Thursday apprised the Centre over its preparedness to prevent possible outbreak of the deadly Ebola epidemic in the state. The State Government informed the Centre that it has already created an isolation ward at the ‘SCB’ Medical College Hospital in Cuttack for Ebola patients, if any comes to the State. […]
Bhubaneswar: Panda Nursing Home under the Kharvela Nagar (PS) limits in Bhubaneswar after the death of a patient on Thursday. Relatives of the deceased and local people ransacked the nursing home by damaging property of the health centre besides damaging two vehicles parked inside it. Police sources said that one Tapan Nayak of Unit-III Dalit […]
In a revelation that has baffled the police, Sneha Swakhyar Samal, the arrested accused in the gruesome triple murder in the Odisha capital on Tuesday morning, has said he killed orthopedic surgeon Dr. Atulya Chandra Meher for nothing more important than prescribing ‘expensive’ tests for his daughter, who was suffering from pain in her leg. […]