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NEW DELHI: India on Wednesday successfully carried out a salvo launch of two indigenously developed Pralay missiles in quick succession from the same launcher off the coast of Odisha, marking a key milestone in user evaluation trials. According to a statement from the defence ministry, the tests were conducted at around 10.30 am near the…
BHUBANESWAR/BERHAMPUR/HYDERABAD: He vanished at will — sometimes robed as a swamiji, stick in hand, towel over his shoulder — shedding names as easily as trails. On Thursday, bullets caught up with Maoist commander Paka Hanumanthu, better known as Ganesh Uike, with a collective bounty of Rs 1.1 crore, who refused to surrender and died in…
SUTI(MURSHIDABAD)/SAMBALPUR: A 20-year-old villager from Suti, who went to work as a mason in Odisha’s Sambalpur five days ago — his first job outside Bengal — was beaten to death on Tuesday by a mob that accused him of being a Bangladeshi, according to the deceased’s family and witnesses. Odisha IGP Himanshu Lal, however, claimed…
Maoist commander Ganesh, 3 others killed in encounter BHUBANESWAR/BERHAMPUR/HYDERABAD: He vanished at will – sometimes robed as a swamiji, stick in hand, towel over his shoulder – shedding names as easily as trails. On Thursday, bullets caught up with Maoist commander Paka Hanumanthu, better known as Ganesh Uike, with a collective bounty of Rs 1.1…
Many of the superfast, express and local trains were also running late. Bhubaneswar: Air, rail and road traffic were severely delayed on Thursday as dense fog enveloped large parts of Odisha, including the capital, inconveniencing passengers.Niraj Kumar, a professor at a private university, said many flights got delayed at the city airport. “Many passengers could…
Ganesh Uike (left) was gunned down along with three associates in an early-morning encounter. BHUBANESWAR: Maoist central committee (CC) member and Odisha in-charge, Ganesh Uike (69), was among four Naxals killed in an encounter with security forces in Kandhamal district on Thursday. This brings the total number of Maoists killed in the district to six…
BHUBANESWAR: The school and mass education department on Monday ordered an inquiry into the incident where school students were made to sit near toilets in a train due to lack of confirmed tickets during their return journey to Odisha after participating in the 69th National School Games in Uttar Pradesh.The department sent 18 student athletes…
NEW DELHI: The Congress has once again crushed dissidence with an “iron hand.” The expulsion of Odisha leader and former MLA Mohammed Moquim, after he went public about a letter he had written to Sonia Gandhi against the party leadership, was a given. The fact that the Congress justified its action and accused Moquim of…
Jagatsinghpur worker returns from conflict-torn Sudan BHUBANESWAR: When Jagatsinghpur native Adarsh Behera received a job offer in 2022 from a plastic manufacturing company in Sudan, he hoped to make life better for his seven-member family that struggled to make ends meet through farming. However, his ordeal began in April 2023 when civil war broke out…
In the wake of a disturbing crime, tensions erupted in the Malkangiri district of Odisha as an Adivasi community took drastic action against a village of settlers from Bangladesh, prompted by the discovery of a woman’s beheaded body. Fueled by suspicions of a land dispute, the enraged mob set around 150 homes ablaze. KORAPUT/BHUBANESWAR: An…
