Govt employee dies of sunstroke
Parlakhemundi: A fourth class Government employee of the District Planning Office, Ramachandra Mali (53), died of sunstroke here on Monday. He fell unconscious while working in the office. He was taken to the district hospital here, where doctors declared him dead. The doctors said he died due to extreme heat. This is the first sunstroke death in Gajapati district.
Free eye camp organised in Brahmapur
Brahmapur: An eye camp was organised at the Shastri Pathagar of Panda Colony in Ankuli industrial area here on Sunday. The camp, jointly organised by the Shankar Eye Foundation and Rubi Eye Hospital, facilitated treatment to hundreds of male and female eye patients, who were also distributed medicines free of cost. While well-known ophthalmologist Dr B Nageswar Rao Subudhi conducted the eye camp, Dr Saswati Sen, Dr Sobhana Das and Dr Radhakanta Bhoi assisted him.
Mussa Mallick Sradha Diwas held at D’nal
Dhenkanal: Jatiya Jana Kranti Parisad observed 52th Sradha Divas of freedom fighter Mussa Mallick on Sunday evening. Presiding over the meeting, State Construction labour Board president Jogendranath Tripathy paid floral tribute to the portrait of Mallick.
Among others, Parjang MlA Dr Nrusingha Charan Sahu, Kamakhyanagar MlA Prafulla Mallick, Prof Nityananda Mishra, octogenarian freedom fighter Brajakishore Mohapatra, scribe Pradyumna Prasad Rath, litterateur Manoranjan Nanda and teacher leader Jameswar Prusty spoke.