K’pada SSA consultant held taking bribe
Kendrapada: Vigilance sleuths on Monday caught Ashok Kumar Upadhya, Senior Technical Consultant of District Project Coordination of SSA office here while he was taking bribe of Rs2,500 from a retired teacher. Upadhya was taking the bribe from Dwitikrushna Mohanty, retired teacher of Arteswar UP School for providing him a no-objection certificate (NOC) for his pension purpose. Earlier, Upadhya had demanded a sum of Rs3,000 from Mohanty. later, the bribe amount was finalised at Rs2,500. Mohanty informed about this to the Vigilance SP of Cuttack.
Sunargarh missing girl found dead
Rourkela: The Bisra police in Sundargah district recovered the body of a 25-year-old girl with deep injury mark on her face from luaram area on Sunday. She was identified as Sunita Topno of Kadalika village. She had been missing since Saturday evening. “We have registered a murder case and started investigation,” said Bisra PS IIC Susanta Das.
Body seized from B’swar burial ground
Baleswar: The Khantapada police, after seizing a body from a cremation ground, sent it for autopsy. The police initiated action after Gobinda Mahalik’s wife alleged that her husband was killed by his brothers over property dispute.
literacy meet held on Makar Sankranti
Dhenkanal: The Kabi Bhushan lekhika Sansad organised the Makar Milan Utsav along with a literacy meet at the Adweta Bhawan in Dhenkanal on the occasion of the Makar Sankranti on Wednesday. The meeting was presided over by eminent social activist Nirupama Das in the presence of former Dhenkanal Municipality Chairman Surendra Mishra, senior advocate Durga Prasad Satpathy and noted litterateur Manoranjan Nanda. The guests spoke on the effect of literature on social reformation. Professor Manasi Kar coordinated the programme.
Gengutia College holds annual fest
Dhenkanal: The annual day function of the Panchayat College of Science and Technology at Vidya Vihar of Gengutia Village in Dhenkanal, organised by cultural organisation Swara Sudha at the Gopabandhu Town Hall, concluded on Sunday. As chief guest, Steel and Mines Minister Prafulla Kumar Mallick distributed prizes among the successful athletes of various sports completions organized by the college earlier. Sadar MlA Saroj Kumar Samal and senior advocate Binayananda Mohapatra attended the event as chief speaker and guest of honour, respectively. The meeting was presided over by village guard Udaya Nath Mohanty in the presence of College Principal Kabita Mohanty. A drama based on family violence was staged by the college students.
NTPC Director gets Financial Pride award
Bhubaneswar: NTPC Director (Finance) Kulamani Biswal was recently conferred the GSBA-Top Rankers Excellence Award 2015-Financial Pride of India. Biswal received the award from eminent educationist Padamshree Dr Pritam Singh at the 16th National Management Summit on ‘Impactful organization- Making it happen’ organised in New Delhi. Biswal, a fellow in Cost Accountancy, has done MBA from the New Port University, California, US. He had started his career with the Coal India limited in 1985.