Saroj Das

Police have arrested block development officer Saroj Das for allegedly siphoning off Rs 80 lakh under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme.

Police have arrested block development officer Saroj Das for allegedly siphoning off Rs 80 lakh under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme.

Five persons were arrested and four motorcycles and 16 mobile phones found in their possession.

The mahurat of an upcoming Odia film that stars Deepak Kumar and actress Anubha Sourrya in the lead was held in the auditorium of a private university in the city recently.

The mahurat of upcoming Odia film, Hum Kisise Kam Nahi, was held in a temple in Cuttack recently.

Odisha Human Rights Commission(OHRC) on Saturday directed IG of Prisons to conduct an inquiry into the alleged incident of physical torture of an under trial prisoner at Choudwar circle jail in Cuttack.

LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party workers in large numbers staged a demonstration at the Collectorate here on Wednesday, demanding the dissolution of state Assembly, imposition of President’s rule and the holding of elections.

The CBI on Friday arrested Saroj Das, chief mechanical engineer of Paradip Port Authority (PPA), and three others in an alleged bribery case involving Orissa Stevedores Limited (OSL), owned by industrialist Mahimananda Mishra. Saroj apart, the other three arrested include Sumanta Rout (a conduit), Sankha Subhra Mitra (manager, port operations of KCT Group) and Surya Narayan Sahoo, DGM (operations) of OSL.

The CBI on Saturday arrested Charchit Mishra, director of Orissa Stevedores Limited (OSL) and youngest son of industrialist Mahimananda Mishra, in an alleged bribery case involving a top official of Paradip Port Authority (PPA) and the cargo handling company.

The 20th international theatre festival which concluded on Tuesday here has been a big hit. While there was a common perception that the popularity of theatre has faded away in the age of movies and internet, hoseful shows at the Shahid Bhawan proved otherwise.

Floral rakhis are the in thing this Raksha Bandhan though the markets are flooded with designer stuff of myriad hues and shapes.

With cyclone Jawad approaching the Odisha coasts, a large number of marine fishermen of the coastal districts of Kendrapada and Jagatsinghpur have anchored their boats and fishing trawlers at harbours and jetties.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday arrested four persons including a senior officer of the Paradip Port Authority (PPA) in Odisha in connection with a bribery case.

A Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) employee, who is on the verge of retirement, has landed himself in a soup after marrying a 30-year-old poor woman by giving false information that his wife had passed away.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday arrested Paradip Port Authority’s chief mechanical engineer Saroj Das and three others, including a senior executive of a stevedoring company in connection with an alleged bribery case.

In May 1983, the mysterious death of Shwetnisha Trivedi, a typist linked to top politicians, shook Patna. Police chief Kishore Kunal's investigation pointed at foul play involving a pesticide, yet political pressure led to CBI intervention. The CBI later ruled it a suicide, contradicting earlier findings. Kunal pursued spiritual work thereafter.

The state's premier law institute, West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences (WBNUJS), is in the midst of controversy.

The superintendent of a shelter home for HIV-infected children in Odisha’s Kalahandi district was arrested on Monday for allegedly sexually abusing an eight-year-old inmate.