Everything you need to know about Bargarh: news, reviews, in-depth analysis, opinion and more
Everything you need to know about Bargarh: news, reviews, in-depth analysis, opinion and more
Bhubaneswar, April 5 (IANS) The state's main opposition Congress party has registered an impressive win in the elections held for three urban local bodies in Odisha, an official said Friday.
Bargarh (Odisha), March 24 (IANS) At least four of a gang involved in a fake currency racket were arrested in Odisha's Bargarh district and counterfeit notes with a total face value of Rs.49,000 were seized from them, police said Sunday.
Bargarh (Odisha), Feb.8 (ANI): Police in Odisha's Bargarh area have launched a civic action programme, which is Maoist affected.
Bhubaneswar, Feb 2 (IANS) Police have busted a counterfeit currency notes-printing unit in Odisha's Bargarh district and arrested three people for circulating the notes in nearby areas, an official said Saturday.
Bhubaneswar, Nov 12 (IANS) Odisha Monday confirmed 10 more dengue cases, taking the number of those infected with the mosquito-borne disease to 1,930 in the state this year.
Bhubaneswar, Sep 1 (IANS) A Border Security Force (BSF) trooper was killed and another injured Saturday in a land mine blast triggered by Maoists in Odisha's Koraput district, police said.
Bhubaneswar, Aug 14 (IANS) Maoists killed a home guard attached to a police station in Odisha ahead of Independence Day, official said Tuesday.
Gajapati (Odisha), Aug 1(ANI): Acting on reports about the growth of unregistered shelter homes for children with inadequate infrastructure, authorities from the Department of Social Welfare and other officials are taking remedial measures.
Bhubaneswar, July 21 (IANS) The burial of a 70-year-old man in Odisha turned into a celebration when he woke up hours after being assumed dead.
Bargarh (Odisha), July 17 (IANS) A court in Odisha has remanded four Nigerian men and a Ugandan woman arrested four days ago in a lottery fraud case to 15 days judicial custody, police said Tuesday.
Bhubaneswar, May 23 (IANS) A 15-year-old boy died of heat stroke at a village in Odisha's Bargarh district, officials said Wednesday.
Bhubaneswar, May 8 (IANS) A 12-hour shutdown called by lawyers Tuesday demanding action against a woman district collector for allegedly misbehaving with some of their colleagues hit normal life in parts of western Odisha, police said.
Bargarh, Jan 25 (ANI): A wanted Maoist and his associate have been arrested in Orissa's Bargarh District.
Palamu, Jan 25 (ANI): Maoists have released three persons, including a government official, who had been held hostage for over 72 hours after the killing of 15 policemen in a landmine blast in Jharkhand's Garhwa region on Tuesday.
Bargarh, Dec 7 (ANI): Forest officials and villagers in Bargarh District of Orissa have rescued a five-month-old male elephant calf from a forest area after ithad wandered off from its herd on Tuesday.
Paikmal, Dec 7 (ANI): A group of Maoists torched a truck during their call for a weeklong shutdown to mark the anniversary of People's Liberation Guerrilla Army (PLGA) in Paikmal block of Bargarh District in Orissa.
Bhubaneswar/Bargarh (Orissa), July 25 (ANI): Orissa Police has taken four Maoists into its custody and seized arms, ammunitions and communist literature from the ultras in Bargarh district.
New Delhi, June 15 (ANI): Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has called upon the Union Home Ministry to substantially increase financial assistance for security related infrastructure for the state to contain and prevent Left Wing Extremism (LWE) violence.
Bargarh (Orissa), Mar 6(ANI): Orissa Police on Sunday arrested a top Maoist leader, identified as Satrughan alias Manglu Biswal, from Bargarh district.
Bargarh (Orissa), Aug 23 (ANI): A debt-ridden farmer committed suicide by consuming pesticide in Barahaguda village of Orissa's Bargarh District on Sunday.
Bargah (Orissa), Apr 15 (ANI): A self-help group (SHG) in Orissa Bargarh District has taken on the initiative to empower specially-abled women by providing them with vocational training.
Bargarh (Orissa), Dec 30 (ANI): The remote village of Bargarh of Orissa was transformed into the world's largest open-air theatre to depict and celebrate episodes from the life of the Hindu god Lord Krishna.
Bhubaneshwar, Dec. 11 (ANI): Farmers in Orissa are suffering due to the faulty crop procurement policy of the state government.
Kuchipalli (Orissa), Oct. 22 (ANI): In a significant development, tribals of Kuchipali village in Orissa's Bargarh District have shunned their old practice of animal sacrifice and instead opted to offer a mixture of puffed rice and jaggery a.k.a Jugar to the Hindu Goddess Kali.
Bargarh (Orissa), July 31 (ANI): A senior Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of the Orissa cadre and four of his family members were found dead with bullet injuries while his son is fighting for life after being critically injured in their house here early on Friday.
Bhubaneswar, May 2 (IANS) Orissa Saturday confirmed three more deaths due to sunstroke taking the toll due to heat wave sweeping across the state to 21.
Bhubaneswar, April 17 (IANS) At least 65.9 percent voting was recorded in the first phase of Lok Sabha and assembly elections in Orissa Thursday, an official statement said Friday after compiling data from all polling centres.
As Orissa goes to the polls to elect 21 Lok Sabha and 147 assembly members on April 16 and 23, both Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Biju Janata Dal (BJD)
Bhubaneswar, April 7 (IANS) The killing of a Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) leader last year and the communal violence it triggered in Orissa have become major election campaign issues.
Bhubaneswar, April 2 (IANS) Congress president Sonia Gandhi Thursday said the Third Front was 'prone to disintegration', as the ruling United Progressive Alliance chairperson kicked off her party's campaign in Orissa.
Bhubaneswar, Apr 2 (ANI): Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Thursday launched her party's poll campaign in the state.
Bhubaneswar, April 2 (IANS) Congress president Sonia Gandhi Thursday slammed the Naveen Patnaik-led Orissa government for its failure on several fronts, as she kicked off her party's campaign in the state.
Bhubaneswar, March 31 (IANS) Wife, brother, son, they are all contesting. The Lok Sabha and assembly elections in Orissa in April will be quite a family affair.
Bargarh (Orissa), Feb 23 (ANI): An artist in Orissa unleashed his creativity to make a wooden replica of the Taj Mahal, one of the 'Seven Wonders of the World'.
Bargarh, Jan.11 (ANI): With the start of New Year, Orissa's Bargarh town transforms itself into a place existing in the mythological world of Lord Krishna for eleven days.
Bargarh, Jan.11 (ANI): With the start of New Year, Orissa's Bargarh town transforms itself into a place existing in the mythological world of Lord Krishna for eleven days.
Bhubaneswar, Dec 19 (IANS) The shifting of a senior bureaucrat in Orissa this week from heading a milk farmers cooperative to a post where he has no work has kicked up controversy with dairy farmers protesting against the move.
Lucknow, Nov 11 (IANS) Six railway employees were run over by a train in an Uttar Pradesh village Tuesday, police said.
Bhubaneswar, Oct 5 (IANS) The police Sunday said they would probe allegations that a Hindu woman was raped and burnt alive by a rampaging mob during the communal violence that erupted after the killing of a Hindu leader in Orissa.
New Delhi, Oct 4 (IANS) Rajani Majhi, a 20-year-old Hindu, was gang-raped before being burnt alive by a mob at the church-run orphanage in Orissa's Bargarh district where she worked, says a senior priest. They mistook her for a Christian.
New Delhi, Oct 4 (ANI): Rajani Majhi, a 20-year-old Hindu girl mistaken to be a Christian, was allegedly gang-raped on August 25 before being burnt alive by a mob at the church-run orphanage in Orissa's Bargarh District where she worked.
New Delhi, Oct 4 (ANI): Rajani Majhi, a 20-year-old Hindu girl mistaken to be a Christian, was gang-raped before being burnt alive by a mob at the church-run orphanage in Orissa's Bargarh District where she worked.
New Delhi, Oct 4 (ANI): Rajani Majhi, a 20-year-old Hindu girl mistaken to be a Christian, was allegedly gang-raped on August 25 before being burnt alive by a mob at the church-run orphanage in Orissa's Bargarh District where she worked.
New Delhi, Oct 4 (IANS) Rajani Majhi, a 20-year-old Hindu, was gang-raped before being burnt alive by a mob at the church-run orphanage in Orissa's Bargarh district where she worked, says a senior priest. They mistook her for a Christian.
An indefinite curfew has been imposed in the trouble-turned Kandhamal district of Orissa as the protesters of Vishwa Hindu Parishad called
Bhunaneswar, Aug 26 (ANI): After imposing curfew in Orissa's volatile Kandhamal district, the police and the paramilitary forces held flag marches in troubled towns on Tuesday following violent protests during Monday's state-wide shutdown call by the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) to protest against the killing of its leader Swami Lakshmanananda Saraswati and four others.
Bargarh (Orissa), August 25 (ANI): A woman died and a Christian priest suffered critical injuries on Monday when an orphanage was set on fire in Orissa's Bargarh district on Monday during the 12-hour shutdown called by Vishwa Hindu Parisad (VHP) against the killing of a senior VHP functionary on Saturday night.
