Jajpur

Jajpur: Five members of a family in Jajpur's Kalindrabad village suffered critical injuries after a cooking gas cylinder blasted on Thursday afternoon. The incident took place when one of the family members tried to adjust the coiled gas…

Bhubaneswar: The BJP on Wednesday alleged that Smitarani Biswal, the panchayat executive officer (PEO) of Haridaspur in Odisha’s Jajpur district, was pressurised by the ruling BJD to validate encroachment of government land by Ramco Cement…

Bhubaneswar: The state government has decided to install iris scanners at paddy procurement centres in Rasulpur block in Jajpur district to identify genuine farmers and weed out bogus ones. This was decided at a block-level meeting on…

Bhubaneswar: Two days after a suicide attempt by a Class XI girl of Kendriya Vidyalaya (KV) no-3 at Mancheswar, the deputy commissioner of Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan transferred the female physical education teacher (PET) to the…

Jajpur: Police escorted Mesco Steel CMD Rita Singh to Bhubaneswar on Wednesday night after the agitating workers of Maithan Ispat Ltd at Kalinganagar in Odisha’s Jajjpur district tried to detain her again. Earlier in the day, police and…

Jajpur: The police and the district administration on Wednesday rescued Rita Singh, Chairman and Managing Director of Mesco Steel Ltd. from a hotel near Kalinga Nagar Industrial Estate in Odisha’s Jajpur district after she was detained for…

Bhubaneswar: Concerned over deteriorating air quality in the country, a 22-year-old entrepreneur from Odisha has come forward to fighting air pollution. To accomplish his mission, Harsha Vardhan has set up a manufacturing unit of…

Jajpur: An Army man from Jajpur district has brought laurels to Odisha by setting a record for covering a distance of 128 km while standing on a ladder atop a moving motorcycle. Sangram Keshari Jena, a 33-year-old Army havildar, returned…

Jajpur: Hounded by the opposition over the death of Smitarani Biswal, the lady Panchayat Executive Officer (PEO) of Haridaspur, in the State Assembly, the Odisha government placed the Revenue Inspector (RI) of Aruha circle in Dharmasala…

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Lokayukta has served notice to six officials on alleged financial irregularities in development works at Nagada village in Jajpur district. The notice was served to the Project Director, District Rural Development…