Jobless engineers polish shoes
Bhubaneswar: Several unemployed degree civil engineers on Friday polished shoes here to protest the alleged irregularities in the appointment of Government Assistant Executive Engineers (AEEs). The passersby stopped and watched as the engineers who had taken to the streets and polished shoes. The unemployed degree civil engineers’ association has alleged large-scale malpractices in the OPSC examinations for AEE recruitment.
Morning classes begin on schools
Bhubaneswar: With the onset of summer, morning classes began in all schools across the State from Saturday. The timing of the classes is 7 am to 11 am. The Government has also asked the schools to complete all examinations by end of this month, make adequate provision for drinking water and keep first aid facilities handy.
Nalco felicitates sportspersons, litterateur
Bhubaneswar: To mark the Utkal Divas, Nalco CMD Dr Tapan Kumar Chand felicitated two promising sportspersons of Odisha Saraswati Rout for weightlifting and Mandakini Majhi for kho-kho here on Friday. Each of them received a trophy and a purse of `20,000. Nalco’s Ameyavikrama Nandan Bhuyan was also honoured for his literary contributions. All Nalco Directors and the Nalco Mahila Samiti president were present on the occasion.
Blood donors’ body holds camp in B’pur
Brahmapur: A blood donation camp was organised by the Association of Voluntary Blood Donors (AVBD) on its foundation day here at Gandhi Nagar on Saturday. A total of 50 blood units were collected from the camp. A six-member team of doctors came from the MKCG Medical Blood Bank. BDA Chairman Subash Mohapatra inaugurated the camp. AVBD president laxmi Narayan Patro, secretary Anil Chakrabarty, founder-president and secretary ET Rao and J Suresh were present, among others.
239 units of blood collected at Jajpur camp
Jajpur: As many as 239 persons on Friday donated blood at a blood donation camp organised by the Munshi Melana Committee at the Dharmasala police station. Jajpur district SP Anup Kumar Sahoo inaugurated the camp. Dharmasala PS IIC Amitav Mohapatra said the local police are committed to develop police-public relations to new heights. Among other, Jajpur Road SDPO Jugal Kishor Das and Dharmasala block Vice-Chairman Jaladhar Mohanty attended the camp.
Angul girl tops at nat’l-level painting contest
Angul: Ayesha Patnaik, a Class-VIII student of the Delhi Public School, Angul stood first at a national-level painting competition on water conservation and pollution held in New Delhi on March 29. The Central Ground Water Board (Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation) organised the contest. She got cash reward of `50,000 and a certificate from Union Minister Uma Bharati. The topic of the competition was ‘Care for Water for Future’.
HC judge visits K’mal District Court
Phulbani: Justice Biswajit Mahanty of the High Court visited the Kandhamal District Court and the District Bar Association here on Saturday. He received a memorandum from the district lawyers and assured them to look into their problems, including staff shortage especially in copying section. Bar Association President Siba prasad Tripathy organised the meeting. District Judge HM Besoi, the Registrar and other bar members were present. Vice-president Ajit Patnaik gave a vote of thanks.
Utkal Seva Anusthan celebrates Utkal Divas
Bhubaneswar: The Utkal Seva Anusthan (USA) at Ogalpada in Janla observed the Utkal Divas on Friday. USA president lawyer Dataram Ashok Kumar Mangaraj, secretary Muralidhar Jena, educationist Chittaranjan Tripathy, Suryanarayan Nanda and Kishore Mangaraj were present as guests. They garlanded the photograph of Utkal Gourav Madhusudan Das. The souvenir ‘USHA’ was unveiled on the occasion. Senior lawyer Rabi Narayan Samantaray, Simanta Samanataray, Niroj Kumar Mohanty and Suvendu Routaray were present, among others.
Utkal Divas celebrated in J’suguda
Jharsuguda: The Utkal Divas was observed at a district-level function held here on Friday evening. Deputy Speaker Sanand Marandi joined as chief guest and said the separate Odisha State has achieved success in industrialisation, economic and infrastructure development; but the Odia language and tradition have not been flourished. Every Odia should dedicate himself to achieve the goal of Odisha’s prosperity in language and tradition, the guests opined. Among others, Brajrajnagar MlA Radharani Panda, OlIC chairman Anup Sai, Jharsuguda SP US Dash spoke on the occasion. Collector BB Patnaik presided over the function.
S’garh RI arrested for taking bribe
Rourkela: Sundargarh district’s lephripara Revenue Inspector (RI) Manmath Kumar Parida was arrested by Vigilance officials on Saturday for demanding and accepting bribe of `10,000. Parida had demanded bribe from one Durga Madhab Patel of Kolabira village of the district allegedly for regularising manufacturing about 80,000 bricks for construction of his house on the land of one Chinta Mani Patel. On Patel’s complaint, a trap was laid and Manmath Kumar Parida caught raid-handed in his office room.