Bhubaneswar, May 18 (Odisha.in) The Centre has approved setting up two new medical colleges in Odisha. Union health minister J P Nadda informed that his department has approved establishment of two 100-seat government medical colleges in Balasore and Balangir districts during the academic year 2018-19. These hospitals will be set up under centrally sponsored scheme […]
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Trainings make Dara, prisoners happy in Baripada jail
Baripada, September 6 (Odisha.in) Authority in Orissa’s Baripada circle jail Thursday provided some vocational training inside the jail that made the prisoners happy. At least 680 inmates in the jail got trainings to produce various items that have commercial value using grass, clothes, wax, bamboo and leaves. Mr. Sibdash Chand superintended of jail said this […]
Flash flood affects hundreds
Baripada, August 14 (Odisha.in) Flash floods caused by over flowing of Khard- khai and Bankanala river past two days have affected over three hundred families in Orissa’s Mayurbhanj district, official said. The flood waters rushed to the villages in the low lying areas after one-hundred-year old bridge of the Kharkhai river collapsed Monday night, a […]
Young woman drowns in swelling river
Baripada, August 14 (Odisha.in) A 32 years old woman was drowned in a swelling river in Orissa’s Mayurbhanj district, official said Tuesday. Laxmi Munda a resident of Hijili village under the Bangiriposi police station was going to collect firewoods crossing Budhabalanga river Monday. She drowned in the river water, police said. Her dead body was […]
Fresh water turtles species found in Simlipal
Baripada, August 13 (Odisha.in) Scientists Monday claimed that they have discovered several species of fresh water turtles from Orissa’s Similipal Biosphere reserve of them one species for the first time. Professor Susil Kumar Dutta, head of Zoology Department of North Orissa University, who discovered these two species. However they are threatened because local people are […]