Bhubaneswar News
This is the highest-ever cash seizure by an agency in a single operation, said sources in the I-T Department. The counting of the seized currency notes took five days and concluded on Sunday.
The searches were being conducted in Boudh, Balangir, Titlagarh, Sambalpur, Sundargarh and Bhubaneswar in Odisha as well as in some locations in Jharkhand, sources said.
The system is likely to continue to move nearly north-north-eastwards and weaken further into a low-pressure area during the next 12 hours, said the IMD bulletin.
Pangi, 68, an old-timer, who was elected to the Odisha assembly for the first time in 1977, had tried his luck in several political parties earlier.
A van with 19 people, including several children, was heading towards the famous Maa Tarini Temple at Ghatagaon when it rear-ended a parked truck on NH-20. The incident took place near Balijodi village.
The student was immediately taken to a nearby hospital and from there to a community health centre. He was later taken to SCB Medical College and Hospital in Cuttack, where the doctors declared him dead on arrival.
A total of 50 talented football players, including 15 from Odisha, in the Under-14 category will be selected for the academy from across the country.
The bandh was total in the districts of Boudh, Sonepur, Balangir, Kalahandi, Nuapada, Sundargarh, Bargarh and parts of Sambalpur.
An order issued by the temple administration said it was the moral responsibility of all to maintain the temple’s holiness.
According to the 2011 census, Hindus comprise over 93% of Odisha’s total population while the percentage of Muslim and Christian population is 2.17% and 2.77%, respectively.
The Odisha Scheduled Areas Transfer of Immovable Property (by STs) Regulation, 1956 got a cabinet nod for this purpose.
The ECoR said all passengers were safe and there were no reports of injuries or casualty. The cattle was killed in the accident.
Maheswar Mohanty had represented the Puri Assembly seat five consecutive times between 1995 and 2019.
The measure, which is taken every year, will remain in force from November 1 to May 31 in the Olive Ridley turtle habitation corridors.
Though the state government order gives no clarity on Pandian’s new role as chairman of 5T and Nabin Odisha, sources said the former IAS officer would work with more authority.
“The system is likely to further intensify into a deep depression over the next 24 hours. It will move northwestwards in the subsequent 12 hours and then move towards the Bangladesh-West Bengal coasts in the following three days,” IMD added.
The accused have been identified as Sheikh Hapizul and Sheikh Jahangir of Olamara in Balasore district and Sheikh Jamaluddin of Rampura of West Medinapur, West Bengal.
Olympian Dutee Chand said that it should be the freedom of every individual to be with and marry whoever he/she wants, adding that she was hopeful that the Centre would bring a law on same-sex marriage.
The Jagannath Temple Police and Pratihari servitors will check if the devotees are following the rule, said SJTA sources.
Private bus operators postpone strike.
In its performance audit report of the two scholarship schemes, the CAG found suspected syphoning of Rs 15.79 crore, due to lack of detailed procedure for inspections of institutions by District Welfare Officers (DWOs), before issue of User IDs for the scholarship portal.
Minister Pradip Kumar Amat said jumbo deaths are due to diseases, electrocution, train-hitting, road accidents, poaching and poisoning; over 600 people killed in elephant attacks in 5 years.
The SJTMC, headed by Puri royal scion Dibyasingha Deb, looks after the administration and governance of the 12th century shrine. “Such committee be constituted by the government within a period of sixty days from the date when the SJTMC will approach them” the court said.
Opposition parties had targeted the Odisha government over the rising crime graph against women. But CM Naveen Patnaik said his government has zero tolerance towards crime, particularly, against women.
The two legislators, however, denied that they threw ‘dal’ at the Speaker Pramila Malik’s podium. Mahaling said they presented ‘dal’ to the Speaker and didn’t throw it.