Fishery official held taking bribe
Konark: Vigilance sleuths on Monday arrested Junior Fishery Technical Assistant Raj Kishore Palei for taking a bribe of Rs3,000 from a person in Gopa block. Vigilance DSP Debadatta Seth and Inspectors SK Panigrahi and Srikanta Behera caught Palei red-handed while he was accepting the bribe from one Sayad Asraf to provide him Government subsidy for digging a pond for fishing purpose.
Nalco organises health camp
Bhubaneswar: The National Aluminium Company limited (Nalco) organised a free health camp in the premises of the Dalua Ashram School in Khurda district on Sunday. The health statuses of as many as 217 patients from nearby villages were checked and medicines were distributed free of cost. The Nalco’s medical and paramedical team was led by Dr l Satpathy, Dr J Panda and Dr AK Chhotray
Utkal Divas preparatory meet organised
Paralakhemundi: A preparatory meeting was held for the observation of 78th Utkal Divas and 122nd birth anniversary of Maharaja Krushnachandra Gajapati Narayan Dev here. Gajapati Collector Basudev Bahinipati chaired the meeting. The birth anniversary of the Maharaja will take place on April 26. The Education Department will observe the day in various schools under the leadership of the Coordinators of district Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan. Besides, garlanding programme, poetry
recitation and writers’ meeting will be held. Among others, ADM Sunil Kumar Nayak, Sub-Collector Biswajit Biswal and Parala Municipal Chairman Pininti Krishna and several social workers and heads of many educational institutions of the city were present.