One-month-old baby branded in N’rangpur
Nabarangpur: In yet another such incident, a 35-day-old girl was admitted to the Nabarangpur district hospital on Wednesday in a serious condition after being branded with hot iron nails. The baby of Bhima and Kunda Muduli belonging to Papahandi block in Nabarangapur district was branded to cure her of some illness. Notably, on March 12, police had arrested a woman for allegedly branding an infant boy with hot iron nails leading to his death in the district hospital here.
New NASSCOM chief a NIT R’kela alumnus
Rourkela: Chander Prakash Gurnani is the new Chairman of NASSCOM 2016. lovingly known as CP by his peers and friends, he did his Chemical Engineering from the NIT Rourkela in 1981.
3 get jail for raping mentally-disabled girl
Rourkela: The Additional District and Session Judge on Thursday awarded 20 years of rigorous imprisonment (RI) to three persons of Bonei sub-division in Sundargarh district and a fine of `15,000, each, for gang-raping a mentally-disabled girl on January 15, 2014. When the girl was watching a Jatra at her village Sarlang, the culprits called her and forcibly took her to a nearby forest and raped her one after another.
B’ngir panchayat official held taking bribe
Balangir: Vigilance officials on Wednesday arrested Gram Panchayat Technical Assistant (JE rank) Alok Ranjan Choudhury of Patuapali gram panchayat in Balangir district for demanding and accepting bribe of `20,000. The accused had demanded the bribe from one Mandhata Biswal of Khuntulimunda village to execute a work under the Rajiv Gandhi Seva Kendra and had received `4,96,161 payment in two instalments. When he requested Choudhury to prepare the final bill, the latter demanded the bribe. Biswal reported the matter to Vigilance. A trap was laid and Choudhury was caught red-handed.
FIITJEE analyses JEE Main Paper-I Exam
Bhubaneswar: Around 12 lakh students have appeared for the JEE Main examination from over 2,000 centres in129 cities. FIITJEE Bhubaneswar centre head Ranajoy Bardhan said, “The question paper-I for BE and B Tech courses in 2016 is similar to the pattern in the past years from 2011 to 2015. Paper is balanced and set from the CBSE syllabus of Class-XI and XII.” However many of the questions were conceptual with some needing analytical skills, he added.