Man kills wife over delay in serving tea
Dhenkanal: A 56-year-old-man killed his wife in Dhenkanal district as she delayed serving him tea. The incident, which took place on Wednesday at Guhalipal, came to light after police arrested the man a day later. The trouble had started Monday morning when Mahalia Nayak asked his wife Jhana(55) to serve him tea. Enraged by the delay, he had a heated argument with her. The matter aggravated when Mahalia continued to argue with Jhana after she refused to cook and serve him food. Mahalia ultimately killed Jhana on Wednesday night.
Youth held for ditching lover in Rourkela
Rourkela: The Brahmani Taranga Police on Thursday arrested and court-forwarded one Abhisek Nag(23) of the Chhend area for ditching a girl of the same locality. Nag was in a live-in-relationship with the girl and both were staying at the TCI Chowk near Vedvyas. Abhisek had also managed to abort the first child of the girl, who is again pregnant for the last four months. At last, the girl lodged an FIR against Nag as he avoided her repeated approaches to marry her.
Akhand Bharat Sankalp Divas observed
Khordha: The district Sanskruti Surakhya Samiti observed the Akhand Bharat Sankalp Divas at the premises of the Vivekananda Institute of Advanced Educational Research and Technology here on August 14. Educationalist Dhirendra Nanda attended the event as the chief speaker and called on to take pledge to turn the dream of formation of a self-reliant and self-esteem undivided India into reality. As chief guest, lecturer Pramod Hota spoke on the significance of the day. Hota later said that corruption and black money have put the undivided country at stake and called on the youths to continue their fight against this.
Ex-HM among 3 held for illegal liquor trade
Jagatsinghpur: Excise personnel seized a huge quantity of illegal liquor and arrested three persons including a retired headmaster in this connection after conducting raids at several places in Balikuda block here on Wednesday. The excise sleuths first raided the house of retired headmaster Gunanidhi Jena at Osakana and recovered liquor stored in his residence for vending. later, they arrested liquor traders Bishnu Behera and Alok Nayak in Osakana and Machhagaion areas, respectively.
Social activist Ali gets Excellence Award
Jajpur: Noted social worker Manzoor Ali was felicitated with the Excellence Award-2014 at the 47th Small and Medium Newspapers’ National Council meet held in Bhubaneswar on Tuesday. He received the award from Union Tribal Affairs Minister Jual Oram.