Bomb scare rattles R’kela police
Rourkela: A panicked public call put the Rourkela police on their toes for some hours on Friday as it informed that two tin boxes were planted inside an SBI ATM near the Power House Road under suspicious conditions.On receipt of the call, a police team along with anti-bomb squad and sniffer dogs immediately rushed the spot. But they did found the boxes posed not dangers as they carried some paper documents and files belonging to two goods train drivers, NM Rao and PK Sethy. Some miscreants had theft the boxes from Bondamunda and left those at the ATM, police
sources said.
Rtd Clerk loots Rs1l in Paralakhemundi
Paralakhemundi: Some miscreants on Thursday looted Rs1 lakh from the motorcycle dickey of Sanjib Babu, a retired forest department clerk, in the SBI premises here. There was a rush inside the SBI campus when Babu was bringing his motorcycle out at around 11.20 am. The miscreants took advantage of the rush and stole the money. The Paralakhemundi police have registered a case on Babu’s complaint.
Girl student dies in train accident
Jagatsinghpur: A 17-year-old girl was killed on Thursday when a Cuttack-bound train ran over her on the Cuttack-Paradeep rail line while she was crossing tracks at Pandara in Jagatshingpur district. She was identified as Satyabhama Nayak of Pandara village studying +2 in the Rahama College.
Das’ nomination to CPS managing body hailed
Brahmapur: The nomination of social worker and scribe, Prasant Kumar Das, to the managing committee of the College of Pharmaceutical Sciences (CPS) here by Brahmapur MP Siddhant Mohapatra has been hailed by many prominent persons like Ganjam Bar Association vice-president Siba Prasad Mishra, Manav Adhikar Suraksha Manch convener Abani Kumar Gaya, Ganjam Zilla Vikas Manch president Bhukant Sahu, Bharat Mazdoor Sangh district president Brundaban Sabat and vice-president RC Mandal, advocate Niranjan Mohanty, Vikash president Gopalkrushna Behera and Odisha Telugu Sammukshya president Dr AK Verma. They thanked the MP and his personal assistant Sapan Padhi for Das’ nomination.
2 held for operating illegal saw mills
Rourkela: Rourkela Forest personnel on Friday arrested two persons, Kuldip Singh (65) and Duryodhan Sahu(55), for allegedly operating two separate saw mills without having licences in the Uditnagar area here. During a joint raid conducted by Vigilance and forest officials led by Assistant Forest Conservator Jitendra Kumar Mohanty, woods worth over Rs3 lakh were seized along with the machineries of both the mills.