Month: February 2023

Odisha Assembly Budget Session Commences Today

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Bhubaneswar: The Budget Session of the Odisha Legislative Assembly is scheduled to commence on Tuesday with the House meeting at 11:00 am. Governor Prof Ganeshi Lal will address the House on the opening day. Finance Minister Niranjan Pujari will present the Annual Budget for 2023-24 in the House on February 24. It is expected that this Budget Session will to be stormy as the Opposition BJP and Congress have drawn up plans to raise burning issues, including the alleged failure of the Crime Branch in unearthing the motive behind Health…

Jharsuguda Police Withdraw Arms From Constable Who Allegedly Threatened To Kill Convicted MLA Anup Sai

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Jharsuguda: Even before the murder of Odisha Health Minister Naba Kisore Das, who was shot by an on-duty police ASI Gopal Das here on January 29, could be erased from the minds of the people, another police officer has put the Odisha Police in discomfort. The police officer concerned is Kolabira police station constable Saroj Das, who, in an inebriated state, allegedly threatened to kill former Brajarajnagar MLA Anup Sai on Monday. While Anup Sai was convicted in a double murder case and is currently out on bail, police have…

Indian-American Neal Mohan Is New YouTube CEO

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New Delhi: Indian-American Neal Mohan will be the new YouTube CEO, as current head Susan Wojcicki has announced to step down after 25 years at the Google-owned company. Currently chief product officer, Mohan became part of Google, the parent company of YouTube, in 2008. He is a Stanford graduate and earlier worked with Microsoft. Mohan and Wojcicki have worked together for nearly 15 years. He became YouTube’s chief product officer in 2015. “Today, after nearly 25 years here, I’ve decided to step back from my role as the head of…

NTCA Approves Odisha’s Proposal To Declare Debrigarh A Tiger Reserve

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Bhubaneswar: Here’s good news for wildlife lovers. The National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) has accepted the Odisha government’s proposal to declare Debrigarh Wildlife Sanctuary in Odisha’s Sambalpur district a tiger reserve. In 2018, the Odisha government proposed to the NTCA to declare Debrigarh Wildlife Sanctuary as a tiger reserve. The demand became stronger when a group of tourists spotted a young sub-adult Royal Bengal Tiger at the sanctuary on December 1, 2022. Forest department officials had then claimed that tigers from forests in neighbouring Chhattisgarh often stray into Debrigarh and…

Sweta Utkal Death Case: Boyfriend Soumyajeet Sent To Jharpada Jail

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Bhubaneswar: Soumyajeet Mohapatra, the reported boyfriend of software engineer Sweta Utkal Kumari who was found dead in her apartment in the Infocity area of Bhubaneswar on August 19, 2022, was sent to Jharpada Jail here on charges of abetting suicide. Chandrasekhar Police had arrested Soumyajeet from his native house in Bansidhar Nagar in Odisha’s Sambalpur district in the wee hours of Thursday and brought him to Bhubaneswar yesterday. Following interrogation, he was produced in a court and subsequently sent to judicial custody after his bail plea was rejected. Police said…

BCCI Chief Selector Chetan Sharma Resigns Amid Sting Operation Row

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New Delhi: BCCI’s chief selector Chetan Sharma has resigned from his post following a sting operation conducted by a TV news channel, where he shared internal information about the team and selection process, sources told IANS. According to sources, he sent his resignation to BCCI Secretary Jay Shah who accepted it. Earlier, in a sting operation, the 57-year-old was heard saying that Indian players have their own doctors outside of cricket, who are always available for them. “If they are fit for only 85%… they tell us to let them…

Woman’s Body Found In Pool Of Blood In Odisha’s Ganjam

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Berhampur: In a shocking incident, a woman was found dead in a pool of blood in her house at Badadanda Sahi village under Chhatrapur in Odisha’s Ganjam district on Thursday morning. The deceased has been identified as Suprabha Chaudhuri, wife of Radhashyam Choudhury. Radhashyam told the media that while he slept in his shop on Vipulingi road on Wednesday night; his wife was alone at home. When he returned home today morning, he found his wife’s body in a pool of blood. He suspected that she was killed with the…

Former Odisha Bank Staff Gets 2-Year RI For Rs 1.15 Cr Fraud

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Dhenkanal: The Kamakshyanagar SDJM court on Wednesday sentenced Sanjay Kumar Satapathy, a former banking assistant, to two years of rigorous imprisonment for misappropriating Rs 1.15 crore from United Central Cooperative Bank in Odisha’s Angul. The court also slapped a fine of Rs 13,000 on Satapathy. Satpathy along with three other staff members of the United Central Cooperative Bank had misappropriated Rs.1,15,16,300 in 2015-16 fiscal by crediting the amount to 65 different accounts from different heads of general ledger account through 187 transactions and subsequently withdrew the entire amount using the…

Row Over ‘Assault’ On Woman IIC Intensifies As BJD Workers Take To The Street

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Bhubaneswar: The row over BJP leader and Leader of the Opposition in the Odisha Legislative Assembly Jaynarayan Mishra allegedly assaulting Dhanupally police station woman IIC Anita Pradhan during a programme protesting against the “deteriorating law and order situation” in the state in Sambalpur on Wednesday intensified on Thursday. Hundreds of Biju Janata Dal (BJD) workers launched a violent agitation in the state capital and Sambalpur today demanding the removal of Jaynarayan Mishra from the post of LoP in the Assembly for his alleged “anti-women” behaviour. Since early morning today, BJD…

Krushi Odisha: Chief Minister Urges Farmers To Implement New Technologies

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Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Thursday inaugurated the three-day state annual agricultural festival ‘Krushi Odisha’ — Agriculture Odisha-2023 — at the Bermuda ground here. Addressing the farmers present on the occasion, the Chief Minister laid emphasis on farm mechanisation and crop diversification and advised them to use new technologies and to grow more economic crops. ‘Krushi Odisha’ organised by the Department of Agriculture and Farmers’ Empowerment will continue until February 18. The Chief Minister said that technology is the basis of development. There is a great need for…