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New Delhi/ Bhubaneswar: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) Saturday said it has attached assets worth Rs 1.53 crore as proceeds of crime acquired by one Jyoti Ranjna Beura alias Golden Baba, the proprietor of Jyoti Trading and Co, Bhubaneswar. The ED initiated PMLA investigation against Golden...

Bhubaneswar: A senior officer of the Odisha's government's forest department was arrested Friday in a corruption case, officials said. Divisional Forest Officer of Rayagada Bijaya Kumar Parida was arrested by the vigilance department after assets worth crores of rupees were found after searches in his...

Bhubaneswar: IMD Bhubaneswar in its weather report issued Yellow Warning for August 26. The weather agency informed that heavy rainfall is very likely over various districts of the state including Mayurbhanj and Balasore. Upto 8.30 AM of August 26: As per the Yellow Warning (be...

Bhubaneswar: Rahul Gandhi is likely to visit Odisha along with Priyanka Gandhi in October for various party programmes, said Congress MLA Adhiraj Mohan Panigrahi Friday. Panigrahi informed that five Congress MLAs from Odisha recently visited Delhi to meet Rahul Gandhi. In the meeting, Rahul said...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Friday approved 416 new posts for Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC), informed a source. With this the total strength of the BMC has gone up from 210 to 626, added the source. Patnaik said the initiative would protect the historical...

Cuttack: Indicating a stricter enforcement of road safety norms, road accidents, and related fatalities have fallen by 7.56 per cent and 6.24 per cent, respectively during the second quarter of 2023 as compared to the corresponding period in 2022, state Transport department officials said, Thursday....

Bhubaneswar: The Special Task Force (STF) of Crime Branch Thursday urged people duped by the fraudster Kahnu Charan Pradhan and his associates to come forward and lodge a complaint with the police by calling on the toll-free phone number ‘1800345710’. The STF has reportedly found...

Bhubaneswar: The officials of Vigilance Department Thursday detected disproportionate assets worth crores of rupees from the possession of Rayagada Divisional Forest Officer (DFO). Vigilance sources here said on the allegation of possession of disproportionate assets by Bijay Kumar Parida, DFO Rayagada Peripheral, simultaneous house searches...

Bhubaneswar: More than one and a half month after the terrible triple train crash near Bahanaga Bazar station in Balasore district killed 296 passengers and maimed over 1,200, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) told a court Thursday that the accident occurred on account of...

Cuttack: The Orissa High Court has set aside a conviction order of a special vigilance court and acquitted a government doctor who was sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for a year in a bribe case registered against him for having demanded and received Rs 300...