7 held, fishing trawler seized in G’matha
Kendrapada: The forest personnel of the Bhitarkanika National Park on Tuesday arrested seven persons and seized a Kasafal based trawler while the fishermen were catching fish illegally near Babubali within Gahirmatha prohibited zone.
Ranger Suvendu Behera said the arrested were produced before the JMFC court of Pattamundai. But the court remanded them in jail by rejecting their bail plea. As many as 30 trawlers have been seized and about 225 fishermen arrested so far since November last in the ongoing turtle season.
Jumbos wreak havoc in Kuchinda
Sambalpur: A herd of over 20 wild elephants have wrecked havoc at Ghodabandhuni village under Kuchinda block in Sambalpur district. The herd has destroyed houses and damaged standing vegetable crops forcing some villagers to spend nights under the open sky. The villagers said they have been rendered penniless after their crops and houses were crushed under the feet of the jumbos. An official of the Jamankira Forest Division who was in the village to assess losses and damages said the villagers would be compensated for their losses in accordance with Government rules.
JSPl Barbil gets Global HR Award
Keonjhar: Jindal Steel & Power ltd (JSPl), Barbil has been presented with Global HR Excellence Award-2014 under the category “Organisation with Innovative HR Practices in the Field of Human Resource”. The award was presented in a ceremony in Mumbai organised by the World HRD Congress recently. Company GM (HR) Alok Malhotra and Assistant Managers (HR) Sarthak Kar and Soumeek Das received this honour on behalf of JSPl, Barbil.