B’swar coop bank staff gets 2 yrs in jail
Baleswar: The Special Vigilance Court here on Wednesday convicted a retired employee of Baleswar-Bhadrak Central Cooperative Bank in a bribery case and awarded him a two-year jail term with a fine `7,000 and in default another six months of imprisonment. Convict Rabindra Mohanty in February 2003 was caught by a Vigilance squad while accepting bribe of `5,000 from one Ramesh Padhi for forwarding his loan application to the head office.
3 injured in cracker blast in Balangir
Balangir: Three persons sustained burn injuries in a blast when they were allegedly making crackers in the house of one Yugal Kishor Patra in Balangir town on Wednesday morning. The explosion was so loud that glass panes in nearby houses were broken and people of the locality thought there was an explosion of a gas cylinder. Injured people were shifted to the Dist Hospital for treatment. Bolangir town police have registereda case and detained a person in this connection.
TTPS gets Safety Award for 6th year
Bhubaneswar: The Institution of Engineers recently conferred the prestigious Safety Innovation Award-2014 on the Talcher Thermal Power Station (TTPS) of the NTPC limited. The TTPS got the ward for the sixth year in a row. TTPS General Manager KRC Murty received the award from Union Urban Development Secretary Shankar Aggarwal at the Safety Convention-2014 organised at New Delhi on November 20.
Houses gutted, cattle burnt alive in Jajpur
Jajpur: Two thatched houses were reduced to ashes and five cattle burnt alive when a major fire swept through Aradalua village under Dasarathpur block here on Tuesday night. The fire erupted all of a sudden and engulfed two houses in no time and devoured all that came its way. Five cattle heads were charred alive as the family members could not open the door of the cowshed. Fire tenders could not reach the village, as a result of which the fire destroyed everything.