N’rangpur municipality clerk held taking bribe
Nabarangpur: Vigilance sleuths on Thursday arrested Tusharkant Nahak, in-charge Vital Statistical Clerk of the Nabarangpur Municipality, on the charge of taking bribe to issue a birth certificate. One Sunamani Bhotra of Bhatsalaguda in Nabarangpur had lodged a complaint to this effect. Accordingly, the sleuths laid a trap and arrested Nahak red-handed while taking Rs1,000 as bribe from Sunamani in the office to issue a birth certificate in her son’s name.
Prayans tops steel city in IIT Entrance exam
Rourkela: like previous years, many students from Rourkela have performed excellently in the IIT Entrance examinations, the results of which were declared on Thursday. Prayans Jain, a student of the Chinmaya English Medium School here topped the steel city in the exam with 1047th rank at All India level. Next to him, Somava and Park Pratim of Delhi Public School have bagged the 3,148th and 3,644th All India ranks, respectively.
Truck driver dies in mishap in Rourkela
Rourkela: The driver of a coal-loaded truck was killed in a head-on collision with an iron ore-laden truck at Kucheita under the Chandiposh police station on NH-143 on Wednesday. The deceased, lalan Singh, died on the spot whereas the driver and helper of the other truck fled.