Cong memo to Guv on dalit girl rape
Bhubaneswar: Bhubaneswar District Congress Committee president Suvendu Mohanty along with about 200 party workers on Saturday handed over a memorandum to the Governor through the Additional District Magistrate, Bhubaneswar, protesting against the gang-rape and murder of minor dalit girl Sujata Bairagi of Mahakalpada in particular and the fast deteriorating law and order situation in the State in general.
Aam Aadmi Party celebrates I-Day
Bhubaneswar: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) observed the 67th Independence Day here in the party office at CRPF. While party State coordinator Nishikanta Mohapatra hoisted the National Flag, scores of party office-bearers participated in the programme. All participants pledged to create a healthy society by working for the common mass. Present political leaders have been misusing common people for their own interests, rued Mohapatra. Therefore, the AAP aims at creating awareness among the common mass about their rights and awakening them to protest all ill deeds, he said.
Massive plantation drive held in city
Bhubaneswar: A massive plantation programme from OUAT firm house to Sidhi Vihar was organised here on Friday by the Parichaya Social Welfare and Development Trust of India in collaboration with the All Odisha BPUT Students’ Association (AOBSA) and the BMC. Mayor Ananta Narayan Jena inaugurated the programme while Corporator
Sreedhar Jena, prominent employee leader Chitta Mohapatra and
social worker Dillip Nag supervised the programme. The Mayor gave
the slogan ‘Clean Bhubaneswar and Green Bhubaneswar’. Trust founder-secretary Bhabani Shankar Mohapatra, student leaders Nirmal Bikash Mohapatra and Partha Sarathi Das and AOBSA president Arbind Pradhan were present.