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Bhojpuri Films have created brand equity for itself: Col. Rathore

New Delhi(PIB)3/2/17;Minister of State for Information & Broadcasting Col. Rajyavardhan Rathore has said that Bhojpuri Films Industry have created a unique place for itself in the field of cinema in the last few years. Bhojpuri as language is spoken in many countries in South Asia and the Bhojpuri films have viewership outside the country too. The Minister stated during his ...

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Nikhilesh Nayak clinched a silver medal

Bhubaneswar:3/2/17:(ONT Bureau) In a first for the state, 12 year old Nikhilesh Nayak clinched a silver medal at the 54th National Roller Sports Championship in Rajasthan. He won the medal in the junior category for Inline Alpine skating. The skater recently returned with his medal to the state. Inline Alpine skating is a difficult and challenging form of skating performed ...

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CBI Arrested head of Green Ray Chit Fund Company

Bhubaneswar: The Central Bureau of Investigation has arrested Mir Sheruddin, the head of Odisha based Green Ray Chit Fund Company from Kolkata on Friday. The probing agency is bringing Sheruddin on a transit remand to Bhubaneswar where it will seek court’s permission for interrogation into the multi crore chit fund scam. As per reports the tainted ponzi firm operative was ...

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Odisha Crime Branch visited Koraput landmine blast area

Bhubaneswar:(ONT Bureau)3/2/17; A five-member team of the Odisha Crime Branch (CB) led by DSP PK Mishra visited Koraput today to probe into the landmine blast occurred in Sunki Ghat area in the district on Wednesday that claimed lives of eight Odisha State Armed Police (OSAP) personnel. A three-member forensic team would assist the CB team in the investigation. The instigating ...

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Tata Steel Starts Export Of Tata Ferroshots

Kalinga Nagar(jajpur Road) 3/2/17:Tata Steel has started exporting its environment-friendly product Tata Ferroshots manufactured at its new facility at Kalinganagar in Odisha, to Europe, a company release today said. The product has received interests from Far-East, South-East and Middle-East Asia, Europe and United States, it said. Tata Ferroshots is granulated pig iron solidified by cooling in water. The end use ...

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JAJNASENI-Novel by Pratibha Ray

“A creature is bound by the triple thread of the three gunas : sattva, rajas and tamas. Tamas gives birth to attachment. From rajas comes addiction and desire. Sattva produces purity. If tamas and rajas were shackles of iron, then sattva was a chain of gold. Therefore, even though the desire to reach svarg through the Himalayas was sattvik, it ...

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Justice MM Das Commission submitted its second interim report

Bhubaneswar:3/2/17: The of Inquiry, probing the multi-crore chit fund scam in Odisha, submitted its second interim report to the State government on Friday. According to sources, secretary of the commission Debraj Rout submitted the second interim report to Home department Special Secretary Lalit Das at state secretariat here. Officials said the probe panel has prepared the report on the basis ...

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Lakhs Take Holy Dip At Chandrabhaga On Magha Saptami

Konark: 3/2/17:Chandrabhaga near Konark in Puri district on Sunday to take a holy dip and offer prayers to the Sun God on the occasion of Magha Saptami on Friday. However, the pilgrims expressed little dissatisfaction over late darshan of Sun God due to deep fog. On the seventh day of the first half of the ‘Magha’ month, pilgrims took dip ...

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inter-State dacoit gang arrested

Keonjhar: The Joda police in the district here have arrested and court-forwarded one Ashok Kumar Mahakud (31), the mastermind of an inter-State dacoit gang, on Thursday. Ashok alias Chote or Chotku, a native of Jhumpura, was in the most wanted list of Keonjhar police since 2010 for his alleged involvement in the Rs 40 lakh docoity case of Rugudi in ...

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Maoists attack: Landmine blast killed 7

Koraput: (ONT Bureau)2/2/17:At least seven state policemen were killed and almost five injured in a landmine blast triggered by Maoists near Sunki in Koraput district of Andhra Pradesh-Odisha border. Maoists triggered the blast around 5.45 pm in Mogarguma village near Pottangi in Koraput that falls on the Sunki-Salur highway. The vehicle targeted was that of the state armed police. There ...

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