ganjam district

Berhampur, March 28 A 20-year-old woman is alleged to have attempted suicide by setting herself on fire in Odisha's Ganjam district on Saturday, a day after filing a rape complaint, police said.The woman, who had dropped out of college, reportedly suffered around 50 per cent burn injuries...

Bhubaneswar, March 27 – The Odisha Vigilance department arrested an Assistant Engineer of the Water Resources Department in the Ganjam district on Friday, on charges of amassing wealth disproportionate to his known sources of income, to the extent of 334 percent.The accused official, Panchu...

Bhubaneswar, March 27 Chief of the Army Staff, General Upendra Dwivedi, who is on a three-day visit to Odisha, called on Governor Hari Babu Kambhampati here on Friday evening.The governor and General Dwivedi visited Atal Van, an ecological park within the Lok Bhavan premises, together...

Bhubaneswar, March 27 Odisha Vigilance officers arrested an irrigation department engineer on Friday, a day after uncovering assets allegedly disproportionate to his known sources of income, officials said.Acting on a tip-off, vigilance officers conducted simultaneous raids at five locations...

Bhubaneswar, March 26 – The Odisha Vigilance department on Thursday unearthed assets worth crores, including Rs 18.90 lakh in cash, during simultaneous searches at multiple locations linked to an Assistant Engineer of the Water Resources Department following allegations of amassing wealth...

Berhampur (Odisha), March 26 A POCSO court in Odisha's Ganjam district on Thursday sentenced a man to life imprisonment for raping and murdering his minor sister-in-law three years ago.Additional district judge-cum-judge of the POCSO court, Pranati Pattnaik, pronounced the verdict after...

Berhampur (Odisha), March 26 A POCSO court here on Thursday sentenced a man to death for sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl in Odisha's Ganjam district five years ago.Describing the crime as falling in the "rarest of rare" category, fast-track court judge Rohit Lal Panda delivered the...

Bhubaneswar, March 24 The Odisha government disbursed an interest subsidy of ₹208.35 crore to more than 2.67 lakh women self-help groups (SHGs) on Tuesday.Deputy Chief Minister Pravati Parida disbursed the funds to the women SHGs at a special event here.She also distributed ₹6.43 crore as a...

Berhampur (Odisha), March 22 Panic gripped villagers in the Patrapur block of Odisha's Ganjam district after a video of a suspected leopard sitting on a nearby hill went viral on social media.However, forest officials said they found no footprints or received any reports of livestock being...

March 22, New Delhi: On March 22, 2012, India experienced a significant failure in internal security when Maoist insurgents abducted two Italian tourists and Jhina Hikaka, a sitting MLA in Odisha. While the abductions began days earlier, March 22 marked the critical day when the central and...

Berhampur, March 20 A village in Odisha's Ganjam district has been transformed into a solar-powered settlement under the Pradhan Mantri Surya Ghar Muft Bijli Yojana, with nearly half of its households installing rooftop panels, officials said.The Matikhala village now has approximately 200 of...

Bhubaneswar/Balasore, March 19 Five people were killed in two separate road accidents in the Ganjam and Balasore districts of Odisha on Thursday, police said.Three people who were travelling on a motorcycle died after their motorcycle collided with a bus at the Patapalli village under the...

Berhampur, March 18 The Odisha Police on Wednesday arrested four people, including two brothers, for allegedly assaulting a 45-year-old woman and three young men by tying them to an electric pole, suspecting them of theft in the Ganjam district.The accused are residents of Bhetanai village...

Berhampur, March 15 Mass nesting of Olive Ridley turtles began at the Rushikulya river mouth in Odisha's Ganjam district in the early hours of Sunday, with over 10,000 turtles laying eggs along the sandy beach, forest officials said.According to Berhampur Divisional Forest Officer Sunny...

Berhampur (Odisha), March 13 Two individuals were arrested on Friday for allegedly defrauding a man of Rs 75 lakh in the Ganjam district of Odisha by selling him a plot of land that had already been sold to other people, police said.The accused real estate brokers have been identified as...

Bhubaneswar, March 12 The body of an Odia worker who died in Qatar was brought back on Thursday through the coordinated efforts of the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) and the state government, officials said.Kuna Khuntia, a resident of Khallikote block in Odisha's Ganjam district, had gone...

Bhubaneswar, March 12 In a reshuffle affecting several IAS officers, the Odisha government appointed Prathamesh Arvind Rajeshirke as the collector of Malkangiri district on Thursday.According to a notification, Malkangiri collector Somesh Kumar Upadhyay has been transferred as director...

Bhubaneswar, March 11 Opposition parties in the Assembly on Wednesday accused the Odisha government of having no concern for the state's citizens stranded in the Gulf countries amidst the ongoing conflict.The issue was debated in the House through a motion for adjournment moved by Chief Whip...

Berhampur (Odisha), March 11 Odisha Police on Wednesday arrested five people for their alleged involvement in the attack on a BJD leader and the chairperson of the Sheragada panchayat samiti (block) in Ganjam district.Leader of Opposition and BJD president Naveen Patnaik alleged that the...

Bhubaneswar, March 11 The Odisha Assembly witnessed heated exchanges and was briefly adjourned on Wednesday following a verbal confrontation between members of the opposition BJD and the ruling BJP over the law and order situation in the state.The issue was raised during Zero Hour when...