Friendship Day blood donation camp held
Jeypore: A voluntary blood donation camp was organised by the Satya Sai Seva Samiti at the Kotpad Town hall here on the occasion of the Friendship Day on Sunday. local MlA Chandra Sekhar Majhi inaugurated the camp, from which a total of 30 units of blood were collected. Among others, Dr Naresh Sahu, Dr Sriya Mandal, Abhay Panda and DBDMF members Rameshwar Jena, Pramod Raul, Tulsi Das Nayak, Balya Nayak, M Venkat Rao, P Srinivas and P Gopi Achari were present.
lightning kills Farm worker; wife injured
Jagatsinghpur: A 50-year-old farm labourer, Mahani Behera, of Kandarapati village under the Raghunathpur police station was killed when lightning struck him while he was engaged in transplantation of paddy saplings in the field along with his wife Jharana Behera on Saturday. He died on the way to hospital and his injured wife has been admitted in hospital.
Septuagenarian man ends life in K’pada
Kendrapada: A 73-year-old person, Kantha Charan Swain, of Badataila village under the Rajkanika police station, committed suicide by hanging himself at a newly constructed house on Thursday night. Swain took the extreme step as he failed to bear the pain of his prolonged hernia disease. Police sent the body for autopsy on Friday and also registered an unnatural death case, said Rajkanika PS IIC Bijay Kumar Mallick.
R’kela workers upbeat over GMST wage pact
Rourkela: Of late, workers of the Go Mandira Seva Trust (GMST) received justice, with the signing of a tripartite agreement between the Trust management, Sundargarh Industrial Mazdoor Union representatives and the Rourkela DlO recently. Under the two-year agreement, the workers will get an additional wage of `700 from January 1, 2014 and further `500 from January 1, 2015. The agreement has brought delight among nearly 50 workers of the unit.