Prophet Mohammed birthday celebrated in K’pada
Kendrapada: The Muslim community on Sunday observed the Jasne-E-Idd- Miladu- Nabi, the birthday of Prophet Mohammed, here with much fervour. A procession started from the Kendrapada High School and reached the Nua Eidgah Padia. About 12,000 Muslims participated in the procession taking 25 decorated Tajias. A meeting was held where religious heads from different Madrasas delivered sermons on the life and deeds of the Prophet.
Notorious criminal held in B’swar
Baleswar: The Raibania police arrested and court-forwarded a history-sheeter on Sunday. He was identified as Babu Chaudhary(28) of Dalagram village under the Nayagram poice station of west Medinapur in West Bengal. As many as 12 dacoity cases are pending against him at Raibania, Jaleswar, Rasgobindapur, Moroda, Baripada Sadar, Nayagram and Jhargram police stations. Babu along with his gang members had been committing loots and dacoity in the border districts of Odisha and Bengal since 2009, police said.
Soubhagya Mishra gets Gangadhar award
Sambalpur: Eminent Odia poet Soubhagya Kumar Mishra was honoured with the prestigious Gangadhar National Award for Poetry here. The award, conferred by the Sambalpur University, was presented to Mishra on the occasion of the 48th foundation day of the university on Saturday. Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan presented the award to Mishra, who said, “Gangadhar Meher is a great poet and his contribution to the Indian tradition and literature is unparalleled.”
4 dacoits held, crude bombs seized in Paradip
Jagatsinghpur: The Paradip police on Saturday foiled a dacoit bid by arresting four miscreants and recovering four crude bombs from their possession. The police swung in to action after being informed that the four youths were suspicious moving at Musadiha village near the IFFCO fertilizer plant site here. The arrested were identified as Sunil Mirdha, Sameer Mandal, Sujit Baidya and Sambhu Majumdar. They admitted that several criminal cases are pending against them at different police stations.
Republic Day preparatory meet at N’rangpur
Nabarangpur: A preparatory meeting for observation of the district-level celebrations of the Republic Day was held at the Collectorate under the chairmanship of district Collector Md Sadique Alaml on Friday. Besides, regular features like mass parade by students and police contingents, various cultural programmes and competitions among school children, different Government departments would also showcase their achievements on the day, informed the Collector. SP Parul Gupta, ADM Bhimman Seth along with many district-level officials, civil societies’ members, school teachers and police personnel attended the meeting.
Winter clothes distributed to OMC workers
Jajpur: A friendly assembly of over 2,000 mining workers belonging to Odisha Mining Corporation’s Daitari, Sukinda and Baula mines was organised at the Daitari railway station recently. Noted trade unionist and author Mayadhar Nayak called upon the workers to continue fighting unitedly to get their legitimate demands. On this occasion, Nayak distributed sweaters, caps, shawls and scarfs to 1,100 Daitari mine loading workers on behalf of Narayani Company owner Soumyaranjan Samal. Chandra Mohan Barik presided over the programme.