Potato sold at Rs 50 in Dhenkanal
Dhenkanal: Potato which disappeared all of a sudden from Dhenkanalvegetable market since Wednesday was selling at Rs 50 a kg in secretplaces for the last few days here. A vender was found selling potatoopenly at Rathagada vegetable market on Sunday morning at Rs 29 a kg. There was no raid at the illegal hoarders’ godown.
Koraput lawyers plant saplings
Jeypore: Members of the Koraput District Bar Association led by its president Bijay Raijena Deo undertook a plantation drive here and planted 50 saplings and organised an awareness programme on the occasion. Among others, District Judge Prasanna Kumar Hota, ADG lakhmidhar Biswal, Family Judge SK Ray, CJM Jitendra Kumar Behera, Civil Judge Mohan Rao, Registrar Niranjan Kumar Jena, SDJM Priya Ranjan Mishra, JMFC Sabitri Nayak, SK Mishra, Ranger KV Bhaskar Rao, Secreatary Sachidananda Mishra, Satyabrata Padhi, Sudhir Padhi, Mahendra Adhikary and Madan Nayak were present.
Koraput Congress holds Kranti Divas
Jeypore: The District Congress Committee, Koraput observed Kranti Divas at the Congress Bhavan here on Saturday. Party leaders paid tribute to Mahatma Gandhi and discussed about the Quit India Movement at a meeting held under chairmanship of DCC president Meenakshi Bahinipati on the occasion. Former Minister Raghunath Patnaik and Jeypore MlA Tara Prasad Bahinipait graced the occasion as guests. Among others, leaders Binod Mohapatra, Biren Mohan Patnaik, Jagdish Sahu, Ram Padhy, Sudhir Sadangi, Kanto Padhy, Siba Patnaik, Ajit Samantray, Basant Nayak, Nihar Bisoi, Nori Mohanty, Pratap Madla and Ani Patnaik were present.
Juvenile held for unnatural sex in K’pada
Kendrapada: The Pattamundai police on Saturday arrested a 17-year-old boy of Telengapatana under Dihapada gram panchayat on the charge of committing unnatural sex with a four-year-old boy on Friday. The child was abused at the premises of the Dihapada panchayat office while he was going to a nearby shop. later, the victim brought the matter before his mother, following which his family members lodged an FIR with the police. The juvenile offender was produced before the CJM-cum-Principal Magistrate, Juvenile Justice Board and later sent to a juvenile home at Angul, said Pattamundai PS IIC Baruni Das.
Dhenkanal club holds blood donation camp
Dhenkanal: Charlie Chaplin Cultural Club organised a blood donationcamp here on Saturday in association with Blood Donors’ Association.Club president Ratan Nair informed that 40 units of blood werecollected.
Deceased farmer’s wife gets insurance in B’swar
Baleswar: Tilotam Sial, wife of a deceased farmer, laxmidhar Sial (36) of Mirzapur village under Khaira block in Baleswar received Rs 50,000 insurance money from the KCC Insurance Company at Osang SCS here on Friday. laxmidhar had deposited Rs 5 in the insurance company. After his accidental death in Bangalore, his wife was given the insurance money at a meeting held at the Osang SCS campus in the presence of SCS head Santosh Das, BBDCC Bank Khaira branch manager Braja Kishore Bal and supervisor SK Anatula, among others.