M’bhanj Power Union elects office-bearers
Baripada: The Mayurbhanj Power Employees’ Union unanimously elected its new office-bearers on Friday. While Subramanyam Mohanty and Tarakanta Patnaik were elected as president and general secretary, respectively, Nrusingha Charan Panda and Jyotikrushna Behera were elected as adviser and asst general secretary. Others elected members include Chandan Mohanty as divisional secretary, Karunakar Pati and Manas Ranjan Sukla as joint secretaries, Devasis Behera as divisional organiser and Manoj Kumar Kalia as treasurer. Assembly Deputy Speaker Sananda Marandi, Badasahi MlA Ganeswar Patra and union leaders Muktikanta Panda, Artabandhu Biswal and Ashis Jena attended the meeting.
Completion of N’rangpur Bar building demanded
Nabarangpur: District Bar Association president Narshinghanath Tripathy, secretary Ram Prasad Patro, Basant Rath, Mrutyunjaya Moharana and Additional Public Prosecutor Sontosh Mishra met ADM Parikhit Seth on Saturday demanded completion of the half-built bar association building in the revenue court premises within seven days. Otherwise, the lawyers threatened to go on strike and lock the block office. Notably, former MP Pradeep Majhi sanctioned Rs 5 lakh from his lAD fund for construction of the building. Present MP Balabhadra Majhi, along with MlA Monohar Randhari, laid its foundation-stone in 2014
Guru Purnima celebrated by senior citizens
Jajpur Road: The Guru Purnima was celebrated by the Vyasanagar Senior Citizens’ Forum here on Friday in association with the Patanjali Yoga Samittee. Vyasanagar Municipality Vice-Chairman Subas Bal, Dr Nrusingha Parida, Chandramani Samal, yoga guru Batakrushna Pradhan, Yoga Pravari Dhuba Charan Kar, yoga guru and BJP leader Dushmanta Rout, advocate loknath Rout, Dr Nikunja Bihari Dhal, Bibhisan Nayak, Satrughna Puhan, Kamal lochan sahoo, Prafulla Nayak, Sarat Sahoo, Aruna Khandai, Naliniprava Parida, Anjali Sahoo, Binodini Bal, Sanatan Mallick and Satrughna Satapathy attended the programme.
RSS celebrates Guru Purnima at Khariar
Nuapada: The Guru Purnima was celebrated by the RSS at Khariar on Saturday. A meeting was held being presided over by RSS ideologue Pustam Sunani and with RSS Saha Pracharak of western Odisha Shankar Bhai as chief speaker, who spoke about the importance of character building and idea of submission of a Swayamsevak. “One has to surrender his mind, heart and life for the motherland,” said Shankar Bhai. About a hundred Swayamsevaks took part in the festival consisting of discussions and prayers. Senior Swayamsevaks Dilip Trivedi, Binod Agrawal, Sanjay Tiwari, Janardan Patra, Binod Padhi, Sajjan Agrawal and Pradip Babu were present.
Meet on DDU-GKY sensitisation held in K’mal
Phulbani: A workshop on ‘Sensitisation for mobilisation and counselling drive for Skill India’ under the Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana (DDU-GKY) was held here on Saturday. Kandhamal Collector Dr Brunda D inaugurated the programme in presence of ORMAS Member SR Pradhan, ZP President Akankhya Pradhan, DRDA PD Biswanath Barik, ORMAS Executive Director BN Das and Association of Skill Partners secretary Prasant Pachisia. Focus was laid on how youths can avail the benefits of the DDU-GKY scheme. Till now, 1,617 youths have been trained out of which 1,048 have been engaged different companies.
Tarbha Biju Yuva Vahani holds Van Mahotsav
Tarbha: The Biju Yuva Vahani observed Van Mahotsav at the AES College here on Friday. A plantation drive was organised in the college premises. With a motto of “Clean and Green Environment”, a rally was taken out involving Biju Yuva Vahani volunteers and students. Among others, Tarbha NAC Chairman Monikalal Agrawal, ZP Member Saroj Kampa, Janardan Thanapati and Durga Sahu were present.
BJD conducts health camp in Sukinda
Jajpur: The Biju Janata Dal conducted a health camp at Ostapal under Danagadi block on Saturday. Sukinda MlA Pritiranjan Ghadai inaugurated the camp. A team of doctors treated as many as 4,000 patients.
McNORE launches ‘Secret Temptation’
Bhubaneswar: McNORE launched new deodorant ‘Secret Temptation’ for female here on Saturday. McNORE MD NK Daga said, “The tagline ‘Own your Temptation’ is likely to encourage everyone to own their passions, wishes and temptations.”