DAVians observe Kranti Divas
Bhubaneswar: The DAVians of Chandrasekharpur offered tributes to the great heroes of the nation while observing the Kranti Divas in the school premises here on Saturday.
SOG jawan commits suicide in K’put
Koraput: A jawan of the Special Operations Group (SOG) committed suicide at Damanjodi in Koraput district late on Friday night. Deceased Gangadhar Behera was working as a SOG jawan at Bargarh. late in the night, he went to the rooftop of his house and shot himself by firing from his service AK-47 rifle. While the cause of the suicide was not yet known, police suspect family tension was behind the extreme step taken by the jawan. Another SOG jawan of the district had committed suicide after killing his three family members and a car driver from his service AK-47 rifle on May 12.
Blood donation camp held on Kranti Divas
Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Surakha Sena in cooperation with the Aama Odisha organised a blood donation camp at the Aama Odisha office here on the occasion of the Kranti Divas on Saturday. A total of 20 units of blood were collected at the camp, which was coordinated by Surakha Sena head Abhishek Joshi and secretaries Nityananda Behera, Gajendra Behera, Deepak Gouda and Raj Gopal Pankaj. Aama Odisha chairman Soumya Ranjan Patnaik and secretary Swaraj Mishra, volunteer Snehalata Prusty, Municipality Hospital Blood Bank Officer Jayadev Ghosh were present.
Man arrested for molesting minor girl
Jajpur: A 50-year-old man was arrested on Friday for molesting a10-year-old schoolgirl on Thursday evening at village Panasihaunder the Jajpur Road police station when the victim was alone in her house. The man, Rabindra Das, is a neignbour of the girl.
Septuagenarian drowns in river in K’pada
Kendrapada: Septuagenarian Anam Mohapatra of Samjari under Mahakalpada block drowned in floodwater in Paika river while he was defecating at river embankment on Friday. The sandbag kept at the embankment collapsed into the river when Mohapatra was defecating on it. With this, the death toll in the floods in Kendrapada district rose to three.
Missing Joda youth’s body found
Champua: The Joda police on Saturday recovered the body of one Rajat Gupta (20) from the Bichakundi jungle near Joda town in Keonjhar district. Rajat, a resident of Joda town, had gone missing since Thursday evening after receiving a phone call. A missing complaint was earlier lodged in the Joda PS on behalf of the Rajat’s family. The police suspect it to be a case of murder.