M’bhanj clerk held taking bribe
Baripada: Vigilance sleuths on Monday arrested a clerk of Mayurbhanj District Education Office here while he was taking bribe of Rs5,000. Sanjay Deo was trapped while accepting the bribe from one Bimal Behera of Betnoti for providing him documents required by him to apply for a job under the rehabilitation scheme, said sources.
32 cattle rescued from trucks in B’swar
Baleswar: The Industrial police here, after rescuing 32 cattle from two trucks on Monday, arrested two persons, driver and helper of a truck. The driver and helper of the other truck fled.
335 blood units collected at J’pore camp
Jeypore: A blood donation camp was organised by the voluntary organisation Social Environmental Educational Welfare Association (SEEWA) Jeypore on Sunday. A total of 335 units of blood were collected from the camp and handed over to the blood banks of Rayagada, Koraput, Jeypore and Nabarangpur. Ex-MlA Rabi Narayan Nanda visited the camp, which was presided over by SEEWA president Pratap Pattanaik.
R’gada jail inmates sensitised on literacy
Rayagada: The State Resource for Adult and Continuing Centre (SRC) organised a sensitisation programme for inmates of the Rayagada sub-jail here on Sunday. Attending the event, District Education Officer (DEO) Premananda Rout stressed on lively thinking that will change their mindset and build them as good citizen. For this, literacy is important, he added. The DlO expressed his happiness over the interest of some of the inmates to continue their studies inside the jail. Besides, Superintendent of the Sub-jail RK Nayak urged for setting up of a library and introduction of other programmes for the inmates who want to enroll themselves in various literacy programme. Around 180 jail inmates attended the programme.
R’kela emerges 2nd in IOC complete RO automation
Bhubaneswar: Rourkela has become the second city in the State and in the Eastern region as well as 13th city in the country with complete Indian Oil retail outlet (RO) Automation. ED (Projects) of the Rourkela Steel Plant (SAIl) MK Das inaugurated the IndianOil Retail Outlet (RO) automation ceremony held at the DevRaj Garg and Sons in Rourkela in the presence of General Manager of IOC State Office KK Sharma, recently. With this inauguration, all IndianOil retail outlets in the Steel city are now fully automated.
Musical programme held at NTPC Kaniha
Talcher: A musical programme, of popular Bollywood singers and Indian Idol fame Sriram and Priyanka Negi, was organised at NTPC Kaniha here on the occasion of the 40th NTPC Raising Day celebration on Friday. NTPC Kanhia Executive Director PR Dahake inaugurated the programme, which was attended by several employees, representatives of various union and associations and people from nearby villages. Crowd gathered on the occasion were enthralled with the voices of the two singers, who sang some of the best compositions of film songs of recent times.