Neighbourhood Day celebrated in Bhadrak
Respecting the neighbours, especially the deprived people, and helping the victims of injustice is the motto of the Universal Neighbourhood Day celebration, said founder of the day and social activist Radhakanta Tripathy while celebrating the occasion at Barikpur Chowk here on Tuesday. This was the fourth consecutive year of the celebration...
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No solution in sight despite 145 days of stir
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Girl abducted, raped in B’swar; 1 held
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Woman held for duping people of Rs 1.7 crore
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Five held, 224 kg cannabis seized
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Land row: Man killed by relatives in Balangir
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Rs 1-cr brown sugar seized in Baleswar
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Odisha bags ‘Top State’ award for sports
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‘AMOFOI has nothing to do with Hindu Marriage Act'
The Freethought Party of India (FPI) has expressed deep concern and shock at the show cause notice that the ADM-cum-Additional Registrar of Societies, Bhubaneswar, has served on the secretary of AMOFOI on September 9, asking why the organization should not be de-registered as it has been violating the Hindu Marriage...
2 yrs on, Burla ring road work yet to begin
It has been more than two years since the two-lane Burla ring road was proposed to strengthen connectivity to Burla under the Sambalpur Municipal Corporation (SMC) limits, but the proposal is yet to make much headway. The Burla ring road has been proposed to connect Chaunrpur area under the Sambalpur Municipal...
Baleswar sikhs urge for Puri-Amritsar train
The local Sikh community as well as the president of Baleswar Gurudwara Committee have submitted a memorandum to Baleswar MP and Union Minister Pratap Chandra Sarangi urging him to launch a superfast train between Puri and Amritsar. Amar Singh Walia, a resident of Baleswar and president of Baleswar Gurudwara, has submitted...
10 more districts to get mobile eye care centres
To eradicate blindness, the State Government has decided to introduce mobile eye treatment centres in 10 more districts and put up permanent eye treatment facility in 50 more Community Health Centres (CHCs). It was revealed at a review meeting on the “Sunetra’ yojana held under the chairmanship of Health and Family...
Gajapati scribe hurt in attack by liquor mafia
Some miscreants suspected to be liquor mafia allegedly attacked a journalist in Chandragiri under the Mohana police station in Gajapati district on Tuesday night. The journalist identified as Srihari Pradhan is working with a vernacular Odia daily. Sources said Pradhan was returning home at night when he was attacked by a group...
‘TIPS’ for liver cirrhosis at Kalinga Hosp
The BR Life Kalinga Hospital recently added another feather to its cap by performing the first-ever Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunt (TIPS) in Odisha on a 46-year-old patient to treat chronic cirrhotic liver. The person, a case of chronic alcoholic liver cirrhosis, complained of jaundice, bloating of stomach and vomiting blood; and...
Booklet for deaf unveiled at NGO consortium meet
An information booklet 'Aama Jojana Aama Adhikar' for deaf people was launched by Mission Deaf Inclusion (MDI), Odisha, a consortium of four non-Government organizations of the State working for the wellbeing and empowerment of deaf children and young persons in rural communities, supported by Deaf Child Worldwide, UK. The voluntary organizations...
