Cuttack: Officials of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Tuesday arrested an assistant electrical engineer of Life Insurance Corporation of India while accepting he was accepting bribe from a contractor. The accused has been identified as Ranjan Das. According to CBI sources, Das had demanded a bribe of Rs 75,000 from a contractor to clear his pending bills. A trap was laid after the concerned contractor approached the CBI. Bhubaneswar: The BJP leaders on Tuesday staged a demonstration in front of the office of Hindol tehsildar demanding a CBI probe into the murder of Hindol block chairman Nabaghana Sahu. They alleged that women and child development minister Anjali Behera was behind the murder. Sahu was allegedly killed by a sports utility vehicle while coming out from his farmhouse. Bhubaneswar: The students of the state will see the results of the IIT joint entrance examination from Wednesday at 8am. For the first time, a student can download the scanned copy of his/her answersheet of the IIT entrance examination from the website. On the other hand, the Orissa JEE results will not be declared on Wednesday as announced by the authorities earlier. The results are likely to be declared on May 31. Bhubaneswar: A 25-year-old youth was killed on Tuesday as his motorcycle hit a parked truck at Tamando Square on the city outskirts. The youth has been identified as Pinku Martha of Nuabazar in Jatni. Police said that he was coming towards Bhubaneswar when his vehicle hit the truck. The victim was soon rushed to a nearby hospital where he was declared brought dead. Bhubaneswar: The state forest department on Tuesday asked the forest officials of Nayagarh area to probe into the death of a tusker. Though the local divisional officials attributed old age to its death, cutting of its tusk has given a new twist to the incident. The principal chief conservator of forests (wildlife) on Tuesday called for exemplary punishment for the culprits so that the killing of the pachyderms did not repeat.
Thursday, 17 July 2025
