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Bhubaneswar, Aug 14 (UNI) The Odisha Vigilance Directorate has arrested four government functionaries in separate bribery cases during three operations conducted on yesterday. According to Vigilance sources, the accused include two health staffers from the CDMO office in Parlakhemundi, one health staffer from the Muniguda CHC in Rayagada district, and a junior clerk from the office of the BEO, Mahakalpada in Kendrapara district. They were formally arrested today and will be produced before the Vigilance courts. In one operation, following the trap of Jagdish Pattnaik, Clerk, and Niranjan Nayak, Peon, both from the CDMO office, Parlakhemundi, Vigilance teams carried out searches and recovered Rs.5,19,700 from Pattnaik's office drawer and Rs.1.5 lakh from his government quarter in Parlakhemundi. The seized cash is suspected to be bribe money. Pattnaik is currently being interrogated to determine its exact source.
Bhubaneswar, Jun 30 (PTI) The Odisha Vigilance on Monday launched simultaneous raids on the properties and office of a joint director-rank officer at eight locations in three districts in connection with its probe into his alleged disproportionate assets. The Vigilance Department launched the search operations on the properties of the Soil Conservation and Watershed Development joint director, following allegations that he amassed wealth disproportionate to his known sources of income. The official was a former project director (PD) of the Watershed Department in Rayagada. "Simultaneous sea ...Read More >
Bhubaneswar: The state govt on Tuesday received investment intent worth Rs 4.5 lakh crore on the first day of Utkarsh Odisha-Make in Odisha Conclave 2025, and given the massive response the event has generated, chief minister Mohan Charan Majhi feels they could see proposals worth four times than the target of Rs 5 lakh crore that had been set in the run-up to the business summit. "The investment proposals are likely to take a big leap as the investors are highly encouraged by the PM's assurances," Majhi said on a day his govt received over 100 investment intents and signed 54 MoUs in various ...Read More >
Mumbai, Jul 18 (PTI) A three-storey chawl collapsed in the western suburb of Bandra here in the early hours of Friday, with at least 10 people feared trapped in the debris, civic officials said. As many as seven people have been rescued from the debris so far and admitted to the civic-run Bhabha Hospital, they said. According to preliminary information, chawl number 37 in the Bharat Nagar area of Bandra East collapsed around 5.56 am. Eight fire engines are at the spot along with teams from the Mumbai police and the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation's local ward machinery, an official from ...Read More >
Bhubaneswar: In a tragedy beyond words, 20 passengers travelling in a luxury bus from Hyderabad to Bengaluru were charred to death when the vehicle caught fire in Andhra Pradesh's Kurnool on Friday morning. Among those who lost their lives was an Odisha youth. He has been identified as Kengua Deepak Kumar, a software engineer from Ambadala village, under Muniguda block in Rayagada district. According to reports, Deepak was employed as a software engineer in Bengaluru, and was returning from Hyderabad where he visited his sister. He boarded a private sleeper coach bus on Thursday night. Unf ...Read More >
Bhubaneswar, Jun 30 (PTI) The Odisha Vigilance on Monday launched simultaneous raids on the properties and office of a joint director-rank officer at eight locations in three districts in connection with its probe into his alleged disproportionate assets. The Vigilance Department launched the search operations on the properties of the Soil Conservation and Watershed Development joint director, following allegations that he amassed wealth disproportionate to his known sources of income. The official was a former project director (PD) of the Watershed Department in Rayagada. "Simultaneous sea ...Read More >
Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Vigilance on Monday launched simultaneous raids on the properties and office of a Joint Director-rank officer at eight locations in three districts in connection with its probe into his alleged disproportionate assets. The Vigilance department launched the search operations on the properties of the Soil Conservation and Watershed Development Joint Director, Dayanidhi Bagh, following allegations that he amassed wealth disproportionate to his known sources of income. The official was a former Project Director (PD) of the Watershed department in Rayagada. "Simultaneous se ...Read More >
Bhubaneswar: An Odia youth was among those killed in the tragic Bengaluru-bound bus accident in Andhra Pradesh's Kurnool district, where a private bus caught fire after colliding with a motorcycle. The deceased has been identified as Kengua Deepak Kumar, a resident of Ambadola village under Muniguda block in Rayagada district. According to reports, Deepak had been residing with his sister in Hyderabad and was travelling to Bengaluru on October 23 for a job opportunity in the IT sector when the accident occurred. After DNA verification, authorities confirmed his identity, and his body was han ...Read More >
Bhubaneswar/Koraput: The state vigilance directorate on Monday discovered 84 acres of land, allegedly acquired through corrupt means by a govt official, Dayanidhi Bagh, at different places in the state. The anti-corruption wing's official statement confirms this "as the largest land detection" in a disproportionate assets (DA) case in vigilance history.The vigilance technical wing is currently assessing these properties' value. On Monday, several teams conducted property searches linked to Bagh in Bhubaneswar, Nabarangpur and Kalahandi, investigating claims of substantial illegal asset accumul ...Read More >
Washington, Jun 5 (PTI) Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, leading a multi-party delegation to the US, was Thursday asked a question by his journalist son whether government interlocutors sought evidence of Pakistan's culpability in the Pahalgam attack to which he replied India would not have conducted Operation Sindoor without convincing evidence. "That shouldn't be allowed. This is my son," Tharoor said laughing, during an interaction at the Council on Foreign Relations when his son Ishaan Tharoor, global affairs columnist with the Washington Post, stood up to ask him a question. "Ishaan Tharoor, ...Read More >
HYDERABAD: State BJP president N Ramchander Rao on Thursday slammed the Congress government and Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy for failing to address farmers' issues despite completing 19 months in office. Speaking at the Kisan Morcha state office-bearers' meeting at the BJP headquarters in Hyderabad, he accused the state government of neglecting farmers due to its skewed policies. He urged party workers to collaborate with the Kisan Morcha to highlight farmers' grievances and counter the Congress' "anti-farmer" stance. He directed the Morcha members to launch agitations, gather grassroots- ...Read More >
Bhubaneswar, Jul 1 (PTI) The Odisha Vigilance on Tuesday arrested a senior officer after detecting in his possession assets disproportionate to his known sources of income, officials said. "Dayanidhi Bagh, joint director, Soil Conservation & Watershed Development, Bhubaneswar has been placed under arrest by Odisha Vigilance for possession of disproportionate assets and will be forwarded to the court of Special Judge, Vigilance, Bhawanipatna," an official statement said. The Vigilance Department conducted raids on the properties of the joint director, following allegations that he amassed wea ...Read More >
New Delhi, July 17: Social media major Meta on Thursday apologised for inaccurate Kannada translation and claimed to have fixed the issue, after Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah raised concerns over faulty auto-translation of Kannada content on its platforms. Raising concerns over the faulty auto-translation of Kannada content on Meta platforms such as Facebook and Instagram, Siddaramaiah said that it was leading to the distortion of facts and misleading users. "We fixed an issue that briefly caused this inaccurate Kannada translation. We apologize that this happened," a Meta spokesperso ...Read More >
BHUBANESWAR: A Vigilance raid on joint director in the directorate of Soil Conservation and Watershed Development, Dayanidhi Bagh, over allegations of amassing disproportionate assets (DA) has revealed that he was in possession of a whopping 84 acre of land and buildings worth crores. Vigilance officials said this is the first time they unearthed such a large land area in the name of a government official and his family members. Bagh was earlier posted as the project director of the watershed wing in Rayagada district. In May, the anti-corruption agency had arrested four officials of the wat ...Read More >
Bhubaneswar: Vedanta Aluminium on Wednesday reaffirmed its long-term commitment to Odisha on the occasion of Utkal Dibas. With planned investments of Rs 1.8 lakh crore in the pipeline and over Rs 1 lakh crore already invested, the company said it has has generated more than 5 lakh employment opportunities to date. Vedanta's Odisha operations including aluminium, power, iron ore, and related businesses, contribute over Rs 9,000 crore annually to the exchequer and account for approximately ~3% of the state's GSDP. The company operates fully integrated, world class aluminium assets in the state ...Read More >