Maoist held for rape in Kandhamal
Phulbani: The Baliguda police in Kandhamal district on Friday arrested and court-forwarded Sunesh Mukhi of Nuasahi on the charge of raping a married lady, who has two children. Sunesh, a Maoist, showed a knife to the woman while she was going to her parental house from in-laws’ village Pajingpata of Sindirigaon gram panchayat.
PPT CFH workers to be regularised
Paradip: The Paradip Port Trust (PPT) management, accepting 35-year-long demand of the Clearing, Forwarding andHandling workers (CFH), has agreed to regularise them. All 1,067 workers had threatened that unless their demand was accepted, they would stop all works from June 18. Regional labour Commission URM Raju, Management Committee secretary SK Mishra, trade union leaders BR Panda, Ananta Kumar Das, Gunanidhi Choudhury, Bishnu Charan Parida, Brundaban Nayak and Babaji Charan Swain had a discussion on June 16 at Bhubaneswar on the issue with the PPT management.
Week-long Paradip Book Fair from tomorrow
Paradip: The Paradip Book Fair-2015 will be held at Jayadev Sadanpremises from June 21 to 28. This year the book fair will be organisedjointly by Paradip Port Trust (PPT) and Biju Pattanaik Memorial Trust.An annual event of Paradip Port Trust (PPT), the fair was notorganised since 2013 citing shortage of staff and other reasons. Theorganising committee has appealed to book sellers and publishers toparticipate in the week- long event and make it successful.
MDM rice dumped in K’pada school
Kendrapada: Cooked rice prepared under the Midday Meal (MDM) scheme at the Government-run-Ayodhyanagar Primary school in Kendrapada district was dumped after the school authority unearthed a dead lizard from a water tank of the school on Thursday. The rice was prepared with the water from the tank. later, the matter was brought to the notice of the Kendrapada BEO, who later directed Headmistress of the school Manasi Nayak to clean the tank on Friday. As the school remained close for one and a half months, a lizard might have fallen into the water tank and died, said Nayak.
Sanju Pradhan wins as Daringbadi Sarpanch
Phulbani: A bye-election to the post of Sarpanch of Daringbadi gram panchayat in Kandhmal district was held on Thursday. Sanju Pradhan of Sadakia village won the election by getting 512 votes. The bye-election was necessitated after the death of incumbent Sarpanch Bikash Chandra Pradhan recently.