K’put DCC president injured in road mishap
Jeypore: Koraput DCC president Minakshi Bahinipati, who is the wife of Jeypore MlA Tara Prasad Bahinipati, was seriously injured when she met with an accident at the Koraput-Jeypore Ghat road on Thursday. She was rushed to the Koraput District Headquarters Hospital and then shifted to a Visakhapatnam hospital, informed Tara Prasad Bahinipati.
YRC to take Swachchh Bharat drive to villages
Jeypore: The Youth Red Cross (YRC) of Jeypore law College on Friday held its annual meeting and decided to undertake the Swachchh Bharat Abhiyan in a massive way by reaching out to the rural part. Among others, college Principal Chintamani Panda and YRC counsellers Niranjan Mishra, BN Chotray, Manoj Patra, Santosh Panigrahi, Srikant Mohaptra, Satya Hota, Pratyush Pattanaik, Ritesh Salota, Gitanjali Dhal and Shankar Naraj were present.
State-wide Mines Safety Week concludes
Dhenkanal: The Odisha Metalliferous Mines Safety Week celebrated at 22 mining sites across the State concluded at Kaliapani on December 7 in Jajpur district. The Balasore Alloys and the Jindal Stainless organised the mines safety week under the aegis of the Directorate General of Mines Safety functioning for Bhubaneswar region. Attending the valedictory function as the chief guest, Sukinda MlA Priti Ranjan Ghadai stressed to protect the people from health hazards residing in mining areas. Odisha Metalliferous Safety Week celebration committee convenor Bachchaan Kumar, Balasore Alloys MD Anil Surekha, P Ranganatheswar, Arvid Kumar, NK Sriram and KC Goswami also spoke.
Weeklong chess tourney begins at D’nal
Dhenkanal: A weeklong national level chess competition organised by the Dhenkanal District Chess Association has begun at the Synergy Engineering College here from December 12 to 18. Even though 170 competitors have registered their names so far, the association expects the number of the participants to be over 250.