J’pore Rotary Club holds blood donation camp
Jeypore: The Rotary Club of Jeypore Impact held a blood donation camp at the Novel Sidharth English Medium School on Sunday to meet the emergency requirement of blood in the local Sub-Divisional Hospital. A total of 46 units of blood were collected. The camp was led by club president Jami Shiva Sai and secretary Rednam Venkat. Members including Koti Sairam, Alok Agrawal, Aman Khurana, JK Mohapatra, Kishore Patel, Anuj Halan, Sagar Jain, Rahul Soni and Vishal Jhand donated blood. Dr Naresh Sahu and club members Ashutosh Rath and Abhay Panda were also present.
Panchayat Secy gets 1-yr jail in graft case
Baleswar: Baleswar Special Vigilance Judge Biswajit Das on Saturday awarded one year jail term to Bidyadhar Nayak, a Panchayat Secretary of Sudarsanpur under Basudevpur block in Bhadrak district in a graft case. The Judge also imposed a fine of Rs500, in default of which Nayak will have to undergo six months more jail term. On January 21, 2003, Nayak was trapped while taking bribe of Rs300 from one Karunakar Sahu of Jagannathia village to release his third installment against the IAY.
Angul traffic constable under Vig scanner
Angul: Vigilance sleuths of Koraput Division on Saturday conducted raids on Angul traffic constable (OMVD) Chandra Kishore Patra’s residential house at Nuapara in Bhawanipatna and his rented house near the Angul Government College’s ladies hostel, simultaneously on the allegation of possession of disproportionate assets. During the search, total movable and immovable assets worth Rs45,01,302 were detected in his and his family members’ names. The search was on.
JSPl bags Naxatra Award of Excellence
Bhubaneswar: The Jindal Steel & Power ltd (JSPl) has been awarded with the Naxatra Award of Excellence-2015 in the category of Entrepreneur of the Year by leading multilingual news channel Naxatra News. JSPl Angul Unit Executive Director & Head Dinesh Kumar Saraogi received the award from Justice laxmi Kanta Mohapatra, Chief Justice of Manipur High Court, in the presence of Bhubaneswar MP Prasanna Patasani, Industries Minister Debi Prasad Mishra, Higher Education Minister Pradeep Panigrahi, Bhubaneswar (North) MlA Priyadarshi Mishra and Naxatra News chairman Prabhat Mallick.
Bhushan bags Clean India Award
Dhenkanal: Bhushan Steel ltd of Dhenkanal has bagged the Clean India Award from the Power and Environment Foundation of India for its contribution in preservation of power. Besides, the company has received the Greentech Award for creating awareness among people for environmental preservation. Company Director Rahul Sengupta, Environment Chief Dr CB Sengar and ED Atul Mishra received the awards during a festival organised in Kolkata.