JHARSUGUDA: A former lady sarpanch and three others were arrested on Friday for allegedly assaulting the general manager of the Lakhanpur area of Mahanadi Coalfields Limited Sanjay Kumar Jha. The video of former sarpanch Parbati Behera assaulting Jha with a sandal was shared by her on social media. The Coal Mines Officers’ Association of India had called for police action …
JHARSUGUDA: Seven truck drivers, engaged in transporting coal from the IB Valley and Lakhanpur area of Mahanadi Coalfields Limited, succumbed to suspected heatstroke in Jharsuguda between Wednesday and Friday. As per police, one truck driver perished at Vedanta parking, while three others succumbed at Belpahar Coal mines parking, two on National Highway 49, and one in Kolabira area. In another …
A day after a country boat carrying 50 people capsized in the upper streams of Mahanadi river in Jharsuguda district, the death toll rose to eight on Saturday as divers and rescue personnel fished out six more bodies. The boat, which was returning from a temple on Patharseni island in Bargarh district to Saradha ghat in Jharsuguda district, capsized just …
A woman was killed and seven others, including three children, went missing after a boat capsized in the Mahanadi river in Odisha's Jharsuguda on Friday. The incident took place when around 50 passengers hailing from the Kharsia area in neighbouring Chhattisgarh, were returning in the boat after visiting a temple in Patharseni Kuda in Odisha's Bargarh district. Boat capsizes in …
The Odisha government on Saturday announced a plan for giving land rights to 1,749 families in Jharsuguda district, who had lost their land amid the construction of the Hirakud dam over the Mahanadi River in the 1950s. A high-level committee comprising of Mr. Pandian, Development Commissioner Anu Garg, and Revenue and Disaster Management Secretary Satyabrata Sahu decided to start settling …
