Janla outpost in-charge held taking bribe
Bhubaneswar: Vigilance sleuths on Wednesday arrested Umakanta Sahoo, Janla police outpost officer-in-charge under the Jatni PS in Khordha district on the charge of taking bribe of Rs2,500 from one Mamata Manjari Samal of Madhusudan Nagar to exclude her name from a chargesheet. Acting on a complaint lodged by Mamata, the sleuths laid a trap and caught him red-handed while receiving the bribe amount from here in his office room.
Geo Talent Test to be held in November
Cuttack: The Odisha Geography Teachers’ Society (OGTS) at its recent executive committee meeting decided to conduct a Geo Talent Test/Social Science Olympiad-2014 here on November 9. Notably, the OGTS conducts the test every year in November among primary and secondary school students from across the State in order to foster the study of geography and draw interests of students in social studies.
School headmistress gets State award
Bhubaneswar: Nandankanan UGUP School Headmistress Kabita Devi has been honoured with the State Award to Teachers-2012 for her outstanding performance. Devi received the award from Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik at a State-level function organised here on the occasion of the Teachers’ Day. Devi is also famed as a well-known children’s writer. Her books include ‘Budhira Bale Pahada Tale and Bijnan Yugara Katha Kahani’.
Social activist Jugal Sahoo felicitated
Bhubaneshwar: Noted social activist Jugal Kishore Sahoo was felicitated by the Hi-tech Medical College and Hospital here recently. Presiding over the function, College chairman Tirupati Panigrahi honoured Sahoo for his remarkable social service in the presence of college principal Prof NK Mohanty, hospital superintendent Dr Ranjit Mishra and director Suresh Panigrahi.
UCO Bank holds car loan mela
Bhubaneswar: A car loan mela is being held in front of the UCO Bank Building at Janpath, Ashok Nagar here by the UCO Bank and the Sky Automobiles from September 9 to 18. Different models of Maruti Suzuki are on display. Representatives of the SKY Automobiles are there to interact with the customers. The UCO Bank is extending car loans at an attractive rate of interest of 10.45% per annum in which processing fee and documentation charges are waived for the festive season.