JSpur freedom fighters celebrate Kranti Diwas
Jagatsinghpur: The District Freedom Fighters’ Parishad celebrated the August Kranti Diwas at the Alaka Ashram Smruti Bhawan here on Thursday. Veteran freedom fighter Madhabananda Monahari chaired the meeting accompanied by freedom fighters Biswantah Das and Bhagirathi Das, Municipality Chairman Biplab Choudhury, Pratap Mishra, educationist Mahendra Acharya, lawyer Muralidhar Sahoo, scribe Sasanka Sekhar Panda, dramatist Kailash Mallick and Councillor Pradipta Sahoo. The freedom fighters expressed strong displeasure over the present trend of governance and activities of political leaders. Self-centred political leaders have put the country in jeopardy, they lamented.
Fake gutkha units busted in Bhadrak; 4 held
Bhadrak: Police on Sunday busted two adulterated gutkha manufacturing units here and arrested four persons in this connection. Acting on a tipoff, a police team raided the two units located at Sarkar Nagar and Chandan Bazar. Heaps of spurious gutkha worth lakhs of rupees were seized. This apart, a zarda making machine and chemical colours were seized from the places.
K’jhar Class-IX student ends life over love affair
Keonjar: A Class-IX student reportedly committed suicide by hanging self from a tree after being scolded by parents over her love affairs with a boy at Dimirimunda village under the Keonjhar Sadar police station. Rajani Munda, daughter of Kalandi Munda, was found hanging from a tree. The police have sent the body for postmortem and started investigations.
Youth beaten to death in Keonjhar
Keonjhar: A youth was allegedly beaten to death at Angikala village under the Turumunga police station in Keonjar district on Saturday night. The deceased was identified as Krushna Chandra Naik. The police have arrested the accused, Nakula Naik, of Chhelianal village. Nakula and Shyama had gone to their relative Sahadeba Nayak’s house. However, they indulged in a quarrel for some reason. In a fit of rage, Nakula beat Krushna with a stick, leaving him severely injured. He died while being taken to the Keonjhar. The reason behind was yet to be known.
Wall collapse: Woman dies, daughter critical
Nuapada: A 35-year-old woman died and her five-year-old daughter sustained critical injuries after a portion of a wall of a pucca house in which they were sleeping collapsed at Nagapada village under Komna block of Nuapada district on Saturday night. The deceased was identified as lalita Rout. The injured girl is undergoing treatment at the District Headquarters Hospital. Reports said a wall of a kutcha house collapsed following rainfall and it fell on the pucca house, as a result of which a portion of the wall of the concrete house crumbled. The deceased’s husband, who works in Bengaluru, was yet to reach the village till last reports came in.