Balasore (Orissa), July 26 (ANI): India on Monday successfully test-fired a ballistic missile interceptor from the Integrated Test Range (ITR) on Wheeler Island off the Orissa’’s coast.
The target missile, a modified indigenously built “Prithvi”, was first lifted off from a mobile launcher from the ITR’’s launch complex-3 at Chandipur-on-sea.
Minutes later, the interceptor missile getting signals [...]
Bhubaneswar, July 18 (ANI): The Opposition parties in Orissa demanded removal of two ministers Badrinarayan Patra and Pratap Jena for their alleged involvement in the coal scam.
Patra and Jena are the Ministers of Urban Development and School and Mass Education, respectively in the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) Government.
The two were chairmen of the state-owned Orissa [...]
Nabarangpur (Orissa), July 16 (ANI): Maoists blew up a police station in Orissa’’s Nabarangpur District on Thursday night.
According to sources, about 30 heavily armed rebels stormed into Kundei falling under the Raighar block, and triggered off a powerful explosion to blow up the police station.
The Naxals snapped electricity supply in the area before launching their [...]
Bhubaneswar, July 15 (ANI): Mission Ashra, an NGO in Orissa that helps specially abled women reunite with their families, hosted a special event to mark the 350th family reunion of such unfortunate women at Bhubaneswar on Thursday.
The volunteers of this NGO pick up specially abled women from roadside and later treat them.
The present inmates under [...]
Jagatsinghpur (Orissa), May 16 (ANI): At least nine people, including six policemen, were injured in a clash in Orissa’’s Jagatsinghpur District as violence flared over a planned steel plant of South Korea’’s POSCO.
The clash took place as the villagers were opposing the planned 12 million-tonne-capacity steel plant by the world’’s number four steel-maker.
Security personnel resorted [...]
Bhubaneshwar, May 14 (ANI): Authorities in Orissa have officially issued warnings to young women to avoid entering physical relationships with their boyfriends after a series of such incidents were converted into sex videos.
Debauched boyfriends secretly filmed their partners and sold it as pornographic material. Some shared it on the Internet.
This triggered a spate of suicide [...]
Malkangiri (Orissa), May 12 (ANI): With the aim of building a strong youth brigade, suspected Maoists are now threatening the unemployed youth in Orissa’’s Malkangiri District and forcing them to join their group.
The lack of employment and deprivation had made them a soft target for the rebels.
“The young people in our village don”t have any [...]
Jharsuguda (Orissa), May 11 (ANI): At least five persons were reportedly dead and over six others injured in the fire that engulfed a private steel plant in Orissa’’s Jharsuguda District on Tuesday.
Five bodies have been recovered from the factory, named MSP Metallics Ltd, and three critically injured workers have been admitted to the nearby hospital.
“Ten [...]
Koraput (Orissa), May 11 (ANI): Security forces on Tuesday launched a massive combing operation in the Narayanpatna forest area of Orissa’’s Koraput District to nab the ultras on the run.
Paramilitary forces along with the Orissa and Andhra Pradesh state police personnel, who conducted the combing operation, have installed check posts in the area and inspected [...]
Malkangiri (Orissa), May 8 (ANI): Residents of Malkangiri district of Orissa are leading a fearful life, as the Maoist are compelling these tribals to join them against the system.
The tribals say in the name of their development, the Maoist rebels have been attacking government policies as well as the government establishments, which is in turn [...]
