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BERHAMPUR: A day after the violent clash between tribal villagers and cops over construction of an approach road to Sijimali bauxite mines in Rayagada, an uneasy calm prevails in the area with armed police force maintaining a strict vigil to prevent the situation from escalating again. The situation seems to be under control amid deployment of six platoons of police force in Sijimali. But the deadlock between the administration and villagers showed no signs of breaking with tribals of Sagabari ...Read More >
Around 40 police personnel were injured on Tuesday after violent clashes broke out between tribals and security forces protesting a road project linked to the proposed Sijimali bauxite mine in Odisha's Rayagada district, officials said. The violence erupted in Sagabari village under Kashipur block, where residents opposing the mining-linked infrastructure project allegedly attacked police with stones, axes and other sharp weapons, escalating a long-running conflict over land, forest rights and ...Read More >
Bhubaneswar/Rayagada: More than 100 people, including 58 police men, were injured Tuesday after violent clashes broke out between tribals and security forces protesting a road project linked to the Sijimali bauxite mine allotted to Vedanta in Rayagada district, officials said. According to officials, the local tribals strongly opposed the road construction at Shagabari village under Kashipur block of the district. The protesters allegedly hurled stones and attacked police and officials of the d ...Read More >
Rayagada: At least 30 policemen were injured and several villagers were injured in after clash over road construction in Odisha's Rayagada district on Tuesday. The project was linked to proposed mining activity in the Sijimali region of the state. The authorities have imposed a curfew in the area following tensions. The unlawful gathering has also been restricted. As per a report published in India Today, the road was being constructed by a private firm to connect Sagbari area. Notably, some of ...Read More >
Bhubaneswar, Apr 7 (PTI) At least 70 people, including 58 security personnel, were injured on Tuesday in a clash with local tribals over the construction of a road to the Sijimali bauxite mine in Odisha's Rayagada district, officials said. The tribals, who have been strongly opposing the road project at Shagabari village under Kashipur block of the district, allegedly attacked the police personnel and district administration officials with swords, axes, and stones. ADG (Law and Order) Sanjay K ...Read More >
BHUBANESWAR: Shortly after the Odisha Police personnel fired at tribals protesting against the construction of a road in Sijimali bauxite mines, a violent clash ensued between the two groups in which over 50 people including 33 police personnel were injured. The Rayagada district administration had recently initiated the construction of a 3 km-long road from Purulang to Sagabari Ghati to facilitate access to the site of the mines which is allotted to aluminium giant Vedanta Ltd. The move trigg ...Read More >
Bhubaneswar: Nearly 50 people, including 40 security personnel, were injured in a clash with local tribals over the construction of a road to Sijimali bauxite mine in Odisha's Rayagada district on Tuesday, April 7. According to officials, the tribals strongly opposed the construction of the road at Shagabari village under the Kashipur block of the district. The protesters allegedly hurled stones and attacked the police and officials of the district administration with swords, axes and other sha ...Read More >
Bhubaneswar, Apr 7 (PTI) Nearly 50 people, including 40 security personnel, were injured in a clash with local tribals over the construction of a road to Sijimali bauxite mine in Odisha's Rayagada district on Tuesday, officials said. According to officials, the local tribals strongly opposed the road construction at Shagabari village under the Kashipur block of the district. The protesters allegedly hurled stones and attacked police and officials of the district administration with swords, axes ...Read More >
Rayagada: Nearly 50 people, including 40 security personnel, were injured in a clash with local tribals over the construction of a road to Sijimali bauxite mine in Odisha's Rayagada district Tuesday, officials said. According to officials, the local tribals strongly opposed the road construction at Shagabari village under the Kashipur block of the district. The protesters allegedly hurled stones and attacked police and officials of the district administration with swords, axes, and other sharp ...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 ...Read More >
Bhubaneswar: A supply assistant on duty at a cyclone shelter at Potara panchayat in Odisha's Gajapati district tragically passed away after suddenly falling ill on Monday night. The deceased has been identified as Surendra Gamang. According to sources, Gamang had been working tirelessly for two days to coordinate cyclone readiness efforts in view of the approaching cyclonic storm Montha. His responsibilities included visiting villages, using a public address system to urge residents of low-lyi ...Read More >
Berhampur: A supply assistant engaged in a cyclone shelter at Potara panchayat in Gajapati district's Rayagada block died after suddenly falling ill on Monday night. The deceased was identified as Surendra Gamanga (35).He was working for last two days to shift people from nearby vulnerable areas and take care of them after they were in the centre. On Monday night, he went to sleep after having dinner and inquired if all the people sheltered in the centre had their dinner.He, however, fell ill su ...Read More >
Bhubaneswar, Oct 28 (PTI) The severe cyclonic storm Montha on Tuesday brought heavy rain in coastal and southern Odisha districts, causing landslides and damaging houses besides uprooting trees, officials said. The landfall of Montha started Kakinada in neighbouring Andhra Pradesh about 7 pm and the process will continue for three to four hours, the Met office said. The preliminary reports of damages were received from eight southern Odisha districts of Malkangiri, Koraput, Rayagada, Gajapati, ...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 H ...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 ...Read More >
Authorities are working to verify the list of passengers who were travelling on the V Kaveri Travels bus from Hyderabad to Bengaluru when it caught fire near Chinnatekuru village in Kurnool district early on Friday, October 24, 2025. The bus, carrying around 40 passengers, reportedly claimed over 25 lives, with several others injured. Families of passengers have been urged to contact the Telangana and Andhra Pradesh transport departments to report missing relatives and provide identification det ...Read More >
New Delhi: Four members of a family, including a six-year-old girl and an eight-year-old boy, were killed after a Bengaluru-bound bus from Hyderabad caught fire following a collision with a motorcycle. According to Kurnool District Collector Dr A. Siri, the accident took place around 3 am when the bus hit a motorcycle, triggering a fuel leak that led to a massive fire. Of the 41 passengers aboard the bus, 20 died. The deceased minors have been identified as six-year-old Manvita and eight-year- ...Read More >
Hyderabad: The Filmnagar police booked a case against Telugu film actress Dimple Hayathi and her husband Victor David for allegedly abusing their maid. The case was registered based on a complaint lodged by her maid Priyanka Bibar hailing from Rayagada district in Odisha. In her complaint, she said the actress and her husband harassed, assaulted and abused. Priyanka alleged that she faced verbal abuse, insult and humiliation from the actress. ...Read More >
Bhubaneswar: Odisha'sOpposition Biju Janata Dal (BJD) on Friday suspended senior leader Prafulla Kumar Mallik on the charge of being involved in anti-party activities. The party's action came a day after Mallik said that he might quit the regional outfit if it does not function properly. The former minister, however, rejected the allegation and asserted that he resigned from the primary membership of the BJD, citing "personal reasons". Mallik was considered a close confidant of BJD president Na ...Read More >
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 ...Read More >
Bhubaneswar: A fresh low-pressure area is likely form over north Bay of Bengal next week, which may trigger widespread rainfall at most places in the state for three to four days from July 23, IMD said on Friday. "The possible system is expected to intensify into a depression and cause widespread rainfall in the state," said Sanjeev Dwivedi, a scientist at the regional IMD centre here. Dwivedi said monsoon rainfall is now occurring at several places due to the supporting wind pattern, and it wou ...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 th ...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 Cong ...Read More >
BERHAMPUR: A contractual worker was killed and two others suffered injuries after a moving goods train reportedly hit a push trolley being used for track maintenance at platform no-5 of Rayagada railway station on Thursday morning. The deceased was identified as Deba Kisan (47) of Sundargarh district. The injured, Babula Saha and Sushant Das, have been admitted to Rayagada district headquarters hospital. Sources said workers of the railway engineering department were engaged in track maintenan ...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 brie ...Read More >
Koraput: A contractual labourer lost his life and two others were injured after the umbrella of a stationary push trolley got entangled with a moving goods train wagon at the Rayagada railway yard on Wednesday. The deceased has been identified as Debasri Kisan (20). The injured, Susant Das (22) and Babula Saha (26), were immediately rushed to a nearby hospital and are stable, according to police sources.A railway release stated that the trolley was positioned between line no. 4 and 5 and was not ...Read More >
Koraput: In a shocking incident reminiscent of the recent Rayagada case, a couple in Odisha's Koraput district was subjected to a degrading tribal ritual for marrying within the same clan, with a video of the act sparking widespread outrage on social media. The incident took place in Peda Itigi village, Borigi panchayat under Narayanpatna block, where the couple, who had previously eloped and were living together, was yoked like bullocks and forced to plough in front of villagers, as per report ...Read More >
BERHAMPUR/JEYPORE: In a rerun of the Rayagada shocker involving public punishment for marrying against community norms, a tribal couple of Koraput district was tied to a yoke and paraded like bullocks through the streets of Pedaitiki village in Narayanapatana block on Sunday. The victims, Narendra Pidika (22) of Pedaitiki and Asanti Pidika (21) of Nadimitiki village under Narayanapatana block, are reportedly from the same clan. The duo, from the Kondh community, fell in love and got married. Th ...Read More >
Koraput: Days after a young couple in Rayagada district were tied to a yoke and made to till the land, flogged and publicly humiliated for allegedly violating tribal customs, a similar incident surfaced in Koraput on Sunday, triggering widespread criticism and outrage.In a video, which has gone viral on social media, a 21-year-old youth, Naresh Pidika, and his 20-year-old cousin, Asati Pidika, are seen tied to a yoke and being paraded through the street at Nadimeitiki village in Borgi panchayat ...Read More >
Koraput (Odisha), Jul 13 (PTI) A young couple was allegedly tied to a wooden plough and paraded through their village in Odisha's Koraput district on Sunday for marrying within the same clan, police said. The incident took place at Nadimeitiki village within Narayanpatna block in the tribal-dominated district. Also Read | Bihar Assembly Elections 2025: Prashant Kishor Slams Nitish Kumar Govt Over Election Commission Claims of Foreign Nationals in Voter List. According to a video that has gone ...Read More >
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