Scuffle over cattle release hits traffic in B’swar
Baleswar: Animal activists under the banner of the Go Gyan Suraksha Foundation had a scuffle with a group of particular community near Bahanga on Tuesday after the former demanded that the cattle tied under the sun on a ground be released soon. Due to the scuffle, the traffic near the place was disrupted for about half an hour before police intervened.
Cheque bounce: RSP staff gets imprisonment
Rourkela: Judicial Magistrate First Class (JMFC), Pansposh, Gargi Pattanaik has awarded one year imprisonment to one Dusha Nayak, a Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) employee, convicting him in a cheque bounce case. The court has also asked him to give `1 lakh as compensation failing which he would undergo another three months in jail.Nayak had taken a hand loan of `8,000 for six months from one Saroj Mohapatra on July 20, 2011, giving him a post-dated cheque.When Mohapatra deposited the cheque in January 2012 it was dishonoured.
Kujang villagers seek liquor shop closure
Jagatsinghpur: Residents of Gandikipur Gram Panchayat under Jagatsinghpur district’s Kujang block have urged the district Collector and Excise Department officials to close down the foreign liquor shop at Mahalahunka near the Trilochanpur-Kujang road soon.They have decided to launch an agitation if the shop is not closed soon, informed block Vice-Chairman Prakash Chandra Parida.