Rotary Club gives water purifier to school
Rourkela: In view of the Rotary International’s emphasis on providing safe drinking water, the Rotary Club of Rourkela Steel City donated a water purifier to the Viswa Bharati Vidya Mandir at Golghar, where children mostly of daily wage earners study. Rashmi Rani Mishra of the Rotary Club donated the water purifier. The school, established in 1990, has about 250 students from Nursery to Class-VII. School Headmaster Sukant Kumar Pandua expressed his gratitude to the club members for this initiative. Rotary Club President Munmun Saha was also present on the occasion.
One dies as tractor overturns in S’garh
Rourkela: One Uchhab Sahoo (55), a tractor owner of Bileimunda Beldhiba village under Hemgiri block in Sundargarh district died on Sunday when the tractor he was travelling in overturned. Critically injured driver and helper of the vehicle were rushed to a hospital for treatment. In another shocking incident, a passenger bus travelling from Bonai to Deogarh caught fire at Khulundukudar village on NH-143 on Sunday morning. Seeing fume in the engine, the bus driver asked all the 40 passengers to get down. Though no causality was reported, properties of passengers worth lakhs of rupees were burnt to ashes.