New Banpur-Balugaon Rotary prez elected
Banpur: Prof Bijaya Kumar Nanda was elected as the president of the Banpur-Balugaon Rotary Club at Balugaon on Wednesday last. Rotary District Governor Rotarian Sibabrata Dash said the club has been rendering social welfare and humanitarian service for poor and needy people and urged the Rotarians to continue their efforts to solve problems of the underprivileged. Club’s former president Omprakash Agrawal inducted Geeta Senapati, Pramod Patra, Nilambar Panda and Dhirendranath Patra as club’s new members. Bijaya Behera took charge of the club secretary from outgoing secretary YN Rao. Club’s immediate past president Padmanava Majhi presided over the meeting.
Jumbo menace: woman dies as wall falls
Rourkela: A 26-year-old woman of Raikela village under the Bonei Forest Division in Sundargarh district died on Sunday midnight when a wall at her house fell on her as an elephant herd pushed the wall from outside. The incident occurred when Muni Nayak was sleeping with her 10-month-old daughter, who narrowly survived. The pachyderms also damaged three more houses of the locality in the night.