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 …
