The parents of the tribal girl had gone from Bhaluhuruda village under the Udala police station limits to Bhubaneswar for some work after requesting the neighbour to look after her in their absence.
The arrested persons are Sandeep Anil Indrekar, a trader, and Vishal Kandugadgi, a driver, both from Pune in Maharashtra. The absconding person is Laxman, a drug peddler from Odisha.
The Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC) will take out a rally in Puri on October 16 to demand the reopening of all the four gates of Jagannath temple for devotees.
Naveen Patnaik launched the ‘Ama Odisha Nabin Odisha' scheme with an outlay of Rs 3,397 crore to boost rural infrastructure and promote Jagannath culture.
During the visit of Secretary (5T) V K Pandian to Cuttack, the local people had appraised the immediate need of the library, and its proximity to the bus stand for the benefit of people coming from nearby villages and towns.
The accident took place near Talanagar under the Soro Police Station limits when the bus with 61 passengers on board hit the stationary truck from behind on the national highway.
The Chief Minister expressed his heartfelt congratulations to Ekka acknowledging her remarkable performance and calling her a role model for the youth of the state.
Apart from strengthening the infrastructure of various public health institutions and providing free quality healthcare, the government is now focused on making Odisha a major centre of cancer care in eastern India, he said.
The Odisha Government last month asked district health authorities to increase the surveillance for seasonal upsurge of Scrub Typhus and Leptospirosis in the state.
A major mock tsunami exercise titled ‘IOWave23’ along the Indian Ocean was conducted by Hyderabad-based INCOIS in collaboration with NDMA in which three major countries including Australia, India and Indonesia participated.
CAG, during the audit, found various discrepancies in the implementation of PMS and Medhabruti schemes such as delay in processing, transfer of scholarship
