lawyers’ strike: Paradip lok Adalat deferred
Paradip: A Regional lok Adalat scheduled to be held here on Sunday has been deferred due to the Jagatsinghpur district lawyers’ cease-work strike. Kujang Bar Association secretary Karttik Chandra Mohanty, vice-president Damodar Swain and senior advocates Susanta Kumar Pattanaik, Rajendra Kumar Parida, Abhay Kumar Swain, Kailash Chandra Sahoo, Golakh Bihari Sutar, Debabrata Sahoo, Sandipta Kumar Mohanty, Sanjay Kumar Mishra, Pranoj Behera and Gorachand Singh picketed at the Paradip bus-stand against the proposed the lok Adalat. Notably, the Jagatsinghpur lawyers are on strike since last February 2 due to a dispute between the Paradip police station woman Sub-Inspector Sabita Majhi and First Class Judicial Magistrate of Jagatsinghpur.
K’pada woman charred to death in fire mishap
Kendrapada: A 31-year-old woman was charred to death and another sustained injuries when a fire broke out due to short-circuit in a house at Jamunabad village under the Patkura police station in Kendrapada district on Sunday morning. The deceased Sasmita Samal was sleeping when the accident took place. Sasmita’s mother-in-law Bilasini Samal, who got injured while trying to rescue the former, was rushed to the District Headquarters Hospital (DHH) for treatment. Properties, including gold jewelleries worth over Rs4 lakh were reduced to ashes in the fire mishap that engulfed the entire thatched house.
GKEl awarded for women empowerment
Bhubaneswar: The GMR Kamalanga Energy limited (GKEl) emerged as winner of the Best CSR Practices Award-2015 for undertaking transformational women empowerment activities among communities in the neighborhood of its 1050 MW thermal power plant at Kamalanga in Dhenkanal District. GKEl Programme leader (CSR) Dilip Kar received the award from Founder of the FIDR, Gurgaon Charudutta Panigrahi and Sankalp TV Director Ashok Das during a function held here on Friday. The award to GKEl acknowledges the GMR Group’s holistic approach in raising the capacity thresholds of females through their life cycle so that they are sufficiently empowered at every stage.
JSPl Barbil gets ABP News HR, leadership Award
Champua: The Jindal Steel and Power limited (JSPl) Barbil unit has been conferred with the ABP News HR and leadership Awards in the category of HR Excellence Awards for Innovation. On behalf of the JSPl Barbil, General Manager (HR) Alok Malhotra, Deputy Manager (HR) Sarthak Kar and Assistant Manager (HR) Soumeek Das received the award presented by the World HRD Congress at a function held in Mumbai on February 16. The award aims at promoting and recognising excellence in the HR profession by highlighting leading organizational HR practices and individuals.