Gariaband. The terror of Naxalites is not taking the name of ending. Everyday they keep trying to harm the villagers and soldiers. Meanwhile, news is coming that once again an encounter has taken place between the police and the Naxalites on the Chhattisgarh-Orissa border. In this encounter, the Naxalites fled leaving behind many of their belongings. However, there is no news of any casualty in this encounter. Searching has been started on the border.
The Gariaband district police has come on alert after the encounter between the police and the Naxalites. This news has been confirmed by Superintendent of Police Amit Kamble. Let us tell you that Naxalites become active as soon as summer comes. They are constantly trying to harm the soldiers. Let us inform that 10 jawans and a driver were martyred in the Naxalite attack in Aranpur of Dantewada on Wednesday. Yesterday’s attack has shocked the entire country.
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Fierce encounter between police and Naxalites, Naxalites fled after saving their lives
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Trial Run Of Vande Bharat Express Train Between Howrah & Odisha’s Puri Tomorrow
Bhubaneswar: A full-fledged trial run of the much-awaited Vande Bharat Express train between Odisha’s Puri and Howrah is slated to be held on Friday, ahead of its likely launch next month.
According to sources, the superfast high-end express train is likely to start regular service between Puri and Howrah via Odisha capital Bhubaneswar in May. Before that, the trial run will be carried out by the railways from Howrah to Puri and back tomorrow, sources said.
For the trial run, the high-speed train will be flagged off from Howrah at 6.10 am tomorrow, sources said. Thereafter, the train will stop at Kharagpur, Bhadrak, Jajpur and Cuttack for two minutes each.
The state-of-the-art train will also stop for two minutes each at Bhubaneswar and Khurda before reaching Puri at 12.35 pm. The train is slated to start its return journey from the seaside pilgrim town at 1.50 pm and reach Howrah at 8.30 pm.
Preliminary work for launch of the much-awaited train service is currently in progress. Coaches manufactured at the Integral Coach Factory in Chennai have been sent to Kolkata for primary maintenance. These coaches will subsequently come to Odisha for secondary maintenance before being ready for inauguration.
According to reports, it will be the ninth Vande Bharat train which is likely to be flagged off by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in May.
The Vande Bharat Express can reach a maximum speed of 180 kmph.
The launch date is expected to be announced soon. The seaside pilgrim town of Puri is famous for Shree Jagannath Temple, which attracts a huge number of visitors from across the country.
With introduction of the train on Puri-Howrah route, West Bengal will have two Vande Bharat Express trains. The other one is the Howrah-New Jalpaiguri service that was launched on December 30, last year.
The Vande Bharat Express train has 14 AC chair car coaches and two executive AC chair car coaches with a capacity of 1,128 passengers. The government plans to run 400 Vande Bharat trains across the country in the next three years.
Railways Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, during his Odisha visit last year, had stated that the state is going to get a Vande Bharat Express soon.
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Odisha Cricketers Have The Potential To Do Well, Says New Coach Dinesh Mongia
Bhubaneswar: Dinesh Mongia is confident that Odisha will do well in the upcoming domestic cricket season.
“The team definitely has potential as they defeated Ranji Trophy finalists Bengal at Eden Gardens. I’m sure Odisha players will perform to the best of their abilities in the upcoming season,” said Mongia who was recently appointed head coach of the senior men’s team.
The former Team India player, who arrived in Odisha on Wednesday, thanked the Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC) and Odisha Cricket Association (OCA) officials for entrusting him with the job.
Speaking about OCA’s Vision@2024 programme and the target of reaching the Ranji Trophy final, Mongia emphasised on developing cricketers which will eventually develop the game in Odisha.
Odisha finished fifth in Ranji Trophy Elite Group A last season, thus missing out on a knockout berth. The high point of their campaign was the outright win over Bengal – their only one – but it came too late.
Mongia will oversee the OCA’s Talent Hunt Camp for Spinners, which got underway in Cuttack today.
He said the talent hunt camp will give an opportunity to all potential spinners in the state and help Odisha unearth good spinners for the future.
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Odisha: Veteran Cong Leaders Express Resentment Over New List Of PCC Office-Bearers
Bhubaneswar: The appointment of new office-bearers of Pradesh Congress Committee has sparked resentment among veteran leaders of the party in Odisha.
Senior Congress leaders and MLAs Tara Prasad Bahinipati and Suresh Routray have expressed their dissatisfaction with the list of the office-bearers.
Speaking to media persons on Thursday, Jatni MLA of the party Routray said he was not happy with the inclusion of several ineligible persons in the list. Appointment of such persons, who have no experience about party organisation, in important posts is not good for the Congress, he added.
“I have expressed my reservation about such persons in PCC list to the Congress president and also submitted a list of eligible leaders, who have been dropped from the committee, for the key posts,” the MLA said.
Routray further said, “I do not aspire for any post. But the deserving leaders who have been working hard for the Congress should be encouraged and promoted.”
On Tuesday, Jeypore MLA Tara Prasad Mohanty had also expressed his resentment over the new list of office-bearers though he has been appointed as one of vice-presidents of the party.
Stating that he was not willing to hold the post of the vice-president, the MLA said he had never approached anybody for the post.
“I want to devote more time to the service of the people of my constituency. If I am given the responsibility of an important post, my work will be hampered. I can carry out the works on my own,” Bahinipati said.
It may be noted that the Congress president had approved the appointment of PCC office-bearers on Monday.
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51st Honorary Doctorate Degree For Odisha’s Achyuta Samanta
Bhubaneswar: KIIT and KISS Founder Prof. Achyuta Samanta has been conferred with an honorary doctorate by Assam’s Mahapurusha Srimanta Sankaradeva University.
Prof. Samanta was conferred with D.Litt. by the university on the occasion of its fifth convocation ceremony for his outstanding contribution to the field of education and social service.
He received the honour from Gulab Chand Kataria, Governor of Assam.
This is the 51st doctorate for Prof. Samanta.
Expressing his gratitude to the Mahapurusha Srimanta Sankaradeva University for the recognition, Prof. Samanta said it will motivate him to do more.
Union Minister of State for External Affairs Dr Rajkumar Ranjan Singh, Chancellor Bhabendra Nath Deka, Vice-Chancellor Dr Mridul Hazarika and Registrar Prof. Mrinal Kumar Borah were present at the convocation ceremony.
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Wind speed up to 40 kmph likely in 15 districts of Odisha
Bhubaneswar: The IMD has issued yellow warning with forecast of thunderstorm and gusty surface wind of 30-40 kmph in next 24 hours for 15 districts of Odisha.
The regional centre of India Meteorologica Department (IMD), in its evening bulletin on Thursday, said the trough/wind discontinuity from west Vidarbha to north Tamil Nadu across Marathwada and interior Karnataka extending upto 1.5 km above mean sea level persisted.
Issuing yellow warning for the 15 districts, the IMD said thunderstorm with lightning and gusty surface wind speed reaching 30-40 kmph are very likely to occur at one or two places in Sundargarh, Keonjhar, Mayurbhanj, Balasore, Bhadrak, Dhenkanal, Jajpur, Cuttack, Nayagarh, Khurda, Kandhamal, Gajapati, Ganjam, Rayagada and
Koraput.The districts of Koraput, Rayagada, Gajapati and Mayurbhanj are also likely to experience hailstorm, it added.
The Met office also forecast that light to moderate rain or thunderstorm is very likely to occur at a few places over
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Mallikarjun Kharge likens PM Modi to ‘poisonous’ snake in an election rally, clarifies later
NEW DELHI: In a scathing personal remark against the Prime Minister, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Thursday compared Narendra Modi with a “poisonous snake”. He later offered an apology for his remark and clarified that he wasn’t referring to Modi but the ideology of BJP.
“PM Modi is like a ‘poisonous snake’, you might think it’s poison or not. If you lick it, you’re dead,” Kharge said earlier today during a rally in Kalaburagi in poll-bound Karnataka.
Kharge’s strong remark expectedly drew the ire of BJP with various party leaders lashing out at the Congress president.
Karnataka chief minister Basavraj Bommai said that Congress is unable to fight PM Modi politically and this kind of thinking is borne out of that desperation.
“There is a poison in the mind of Kharge. It’s a prejudiced mind towards PM Modi and BJP. This kind of thinking comes because of desperation as they are unable to fight him politically and they are seeing that their ship is sinking… People will teach them a lesson,” Bommai said.
Union minister Anurag Thakur said that the remark made by Kharge was worse than Sonia Gandhi’s “maut ka saudagar” dig at PM Modi.
“Congress made Mallikarjun Kharge the party president but nobody considers him that, so he thought of giving a statement which is worse than that given by Sonia Gandhi,” Union minister Anurag Thakur said.
BJP leader and Union minister Shobha Karandlaje chastised Kharge for using “such language” despite being a senior leader.
“Mallikarjun Kharge is a senior leader and president of Congress. What does he want to tell the world? PM Narendra Modi is the PM of our country and the whole world respects him and using such language for PM shows the level to which Congress has stooped,” she said, adding that Kharge must apologise to the country.
Following the massive uproar, Kharge expressed “special regret” over his remarks.
“If my statement has hurt anyone, if it was misconstrued and distressed anyone, I will express special regret for it,” Kharge said.
“We have ideological differences. RSS-BJP’s ideology is poisonous. But they compared it to Prime Minister and claimed that I commented about him. It was never my intention to speak about any person or hurt anyone,” he clarified again.
Earlier too, Kharge had said that his remarks were not meant for PM Modi. “I never said this personally for PM Modi, what I said was their ideology is like a snake and if you try to touch it, your death is certain,” he had said.
Kharge has taken several digs at Prime Minister Narendra Modi since assuming charge as the Congress president.
Earlier, in February, Kharge had trained his guns on PM Modi, claiming that his arrogance is “dangerous” for the country and the democracy.
Later, Kharge took a dig at Modi over the Adani issue, alleging that the Prime Minister is using public money to favour the businessman.
He also said that Modi should stop calling himself the anti-corruption crusader after the Prime Minister jeered the opposition parties for launching a “bhrashtachari bachao abhiyan” (save corrupt campaign) against central agencies.
While PM Modi has praised Kharge at public platforms, he has often mocked Congress for installing the Karnataka vetaran as a “remote control” president. -
Illegal shopkeepers gathered goods from the bus stand, were burning government electricity for free
The businessmen, who were illegally doing business by occupying the government land of the bus stand by thumping their chest, fled on Thursday by packing sacks and bedding. Amrit Vichar campaigned against it and brought this scam to the higher authorities. When there was a stir after the matter was opened, the local officers sitting blindly also swung into action. While this illegal business was illuminated by government electricity and the authorities were also aware of it.
Be informed that Haldwani bus stand has its own shops, which are regularly allotted. Despite this, illegal shops have settled on the land of the bus stand. Alam happened that there was less space in the bus stand for buses and passengers. After which barely the officials of the Transport Corporation had cleared the encroachment with the help of the police and instead had to face heavy protests. When time passed, the encroachment started again on the instructions of some white collars. There were two shops in these encroachments, which were operating in the roadways premises for the last 8 months.
The big thing was that these shopkeepers were not only causing financial loss to the Corporation, but were also using their own electricity and water for free. In the beginning, when Amrit Vichar revealed the racket, even the local officials refrained from speaking openly, but when the matter reached Dehradun, there was a stir. When instructions came from the headquarters to forcefully vacate the possession, the shopkeepers themselves started collecting the goods on Thursday.
Was saying that permission has been received from the headquarters
Haldwani: In this whole matter, the illegal shopkeepers did not leave any stone unturned to save the shop. A shopkeeper even claimed that his shop was set up as per the rules and that the headquarter itself had given him permission to set up shop. Not only this, the shopkeeper claimed that he also had the permission letter from the headquarters, but he could not show the permission letter and on Thursday he went on with the shop.inset
Even those who do mercy could not save
Haldwani: The shopkeepers did not have the courage to occupy government land and run shops and use electricity and water free of cost. Actually, there was a white-collar hand behind all this. This white-collar is a big leader and he threatens the officers, but when the matter reached the officers’ own ranks, even the kindness of the white-collar could not save the illegal shopkeepers. -
The introduction of honesty given by the policeman, the lost phone was safely handed over to the mobile owner
On 25.04.2023, Additional Sub-Inspector Ashok Mishra, Chief Constable Bikram Singh and Home Guard Mohanlal, appointed at Police Station Devprayag, found a mobile worth around ₹ 20,000/- lying near Ramkund Tirahe. On which the said mobile was safely handed over to its owner Mrs. Sheela Devi village Bakroda, Sabdarkhal Pauri Garhwal after a lot of searching and questioning the people around by the police personnel.
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Cabinet minister Chandan Ram Das merged with Panchtatva, CM Dhami paid tribute
Cabinet Minister of Uttarakhand Late. Chandan Ram Das was cremated today with state honors at Bagnath Saryu Ghat in Bageshwar. Before the last rites, he was given a salute by the police personnel. Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami, former Chief Minister Bhagat Singh Koshyari, cabinet ministers Subodh Uniyal, Rekha Arya, Prem Chand Aggarwal, Saurabh Bahuguna and various politicians and officials paid tribute to him by offering floral cycles. Chief Minister Dhami said that self. The sudden demise of Chandan Ram Das is an irreparable loss to the entire state. He has prayed to God to give place to the pious soul at Shri’s feet and give patience to the bereaved family members.
Let me tell you, Chandan Ram Das, Transport Minister of Dhami Government had passed away on Wednesday. He was battling illness for a long time. He was admitted to Bageshwar District Hospital on Wednesday morning after his health deteriorated, where he breathed his last.