ganjam district

Berhampur (Odisha), April 9 Police on Thursday arrested a woman for allegedly killing her nine-year-old niece in Odisha's Ganjam district, officials said.The incident took place at Laxmanapalli, near Chhamunda village, under the Jagannath Prasad police station limits of the district on...

Bhubaneswar, April 9 Odisha Deputy Chief Minister Pravati Parida launched a self-defense training program for 5,000 women members of Self Help Groups (SHGs) here on Thursday, in the presence of National Commission for Women (NCW) chairperson Vijaya Kishore Rahatkar.The program, being...

Berhampur (Odisha), April 8 The Odisha Vigilance Department arrested five employees of a community health center (CHC) on Wednesday for allegedly misappropriating over Rs 2 crore in government funds between 2023 and 2025, officials said.The accused, who were working at the Kodala CHC in the...

Berhampur (Odisha), April 7 Two girls drowned while bathing in a village pond in the Ganjam district of Odisha on Tuesday, police said.The deceased were identified as Pranjali Dora (11), a class 6 student, and Manini Dora (12), a class 7 student, both residents of Patanda village in the...

Bhubaneswar, April 6 The Odisha government appointed chairpersons and vice-chairpersons of Special Development Councils (SDCs) in 23 districts on Monday, officials said.According to a list shared by the Chief Minister’s Office (CMO), Basistha Nayak has been appointed chairman of the SDC in the...

Berhampur, April 4 The Ganjam district administration in Odisha opened a free coaching center in Berhampur on Saturday for individuals preparing for the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) and the Odisha Public Service Commission (OPSC) exams, officials said.Two other similar coaching...

Berhampur (Odisha), April 2 A 20-year-old woman, who allegedly set herself on fire in the Ganjam district of Odisha a day after filing a rape complaint, has died while undergoing treatment at a hospital in Berhampur, police said on Thursday.She died on Wednesday night after fighting for her...

Bhubaneswar, March 31 The Odisha Vigilance Department on Tuesday seized Rs 45.41 lakh in cash from the possession of an officer, who could not satisfactorily explain the source of the money, an official said.Acting on a tip-off, a team from the department intercepted Odisha Police Housing and...

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...