Min Behera gets knee transplant at AIIMS
Bhubaneswar: Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) and Public Grievances and Pension Administration Minister Jogendra Behera has undergone a ligament operation at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi. A team of orthopaedic doctors under the direct guidance of Dr CS Yadav conducted the knee transplant on Saturday. The Minister is out of danger now. He is expected to stay in the hospital for a week.
Website launched for prisoners’ wards
Bhubaneswar: A website www.madhurmayee.in was launched on Sunday for the prisoners’ wards with the support of city-based social organisation Sradha Foundation, which aims at development of hidden skills of prisoners’ wards. The foundation was started in 2003 as to how to give recognition to the children of prisoners in the society. It is under control of NGO Patita Udhar Samiti. An inmate, Sujata Sahu, coordinated the launching programme. Social activists Dhirendra Kar, Sushanta Sahu and Sripati Acharya, Dhauli Art College Principal Panchanan Samal, Gopi Mohan Pattanaik, web designer Bhairab Meher and Madhurmayee superintended Nirojalaxmi Mohapatra were present.
Morepen strengthens position in drugs market
Bhubaneswar: The Morepen laboratories ltd has reported a 60-per cent rise in its net profit for the first quarter of FY 2016-17. The net profit increased from Rs 2.50 crore in the Q1 of the previous financial year to Rs 4.01 crore in Q1 of FY 2016-17. The company ascribes its fifth consecutive quarterly growth in financial numbers to management’s focus on API markets, both domestic and international, besides better efficiency in all business segments, informed Morepen laboratories CMD Sushil Suri.