Five JSpur BJD leaders suspended
Jagatsinghpur: Jagatsinghpur district BJD president Bishnu Das on Sunday suspended five local senior party leaders from the party due to their anti-arty activities during the panchayat elections. The suspension period would be forced for six years. The removed party leaders are Nilam Kumar Swain from Naugaon, Ranjan Kumar Swain from Biridi and former sarpanch Babuni Sahoo, samiti member Binod Kumar and former sarpanch Debendra Behera of Peteipur panchayat, a BJD release informed.
Driver’s body recovered; murder alleged
Jagatsinghpur: The Raghunathpur police recovered a driver’s body from a market complex room near Mahalahat on Sunday. The deceased was identified as Nandan Gochhayat, a resident of Biswanathpur village. Gochhayat was residing in the market complex room for last few months. His employer Ramesh Chandra Dalai spotted him hanging from the room’s ceiling fan. The deceased’s family members and villagers, however, alleged murder angle and demanded an impartial probe. Police seized abandoned liquor bottles and a mobile phone from the room and started investigation into the incident.
ABVP holds Pratibha Sangam at Baripada
Baripada: “Pratibha Sangam” was organised here on Sunday by the
Baripada unit of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad. Music, dance, debate, song recitation and rangoli competitions were held as part of the talent-hunt programme, in which more than 100 college students, drawn from different parts of Mayurbhanj, took part. Geetanjali Jena, Banamali Mohapatra, Nivedita and Amrapalli, among others, attended the competitions as judges. The programme was intended for searching out the latent talent in the young and promising boys and girls.
Post Makar, monkey dance held in M’bhanj
Baripada: Tribal people in different parts of Mayurbhanj are now busy enjoying Mankad Nacha (monkey dance) after celebrating the district’s
most popular mass festival Makar Parav. Tribals are going from house to house, singing, dancing and acting like monkeys and then begging alms from the house-owners. Interestingly, men dress themselves in women’s costumes while performing this fascinating dance. It has been an age-old tribal practice here.
Athagarh Press Club observes Netaji Jayanti
Athagarh: The Athagarh Press Club (APC) observed the birth anniversary of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose and Veer Surendra Sai at the Saraswati Sishu Vidya Mandir, Banikanthanagar. Under the chairmanship of APC president Dinesh Das, a meeting was held with litterateur Dr.Narayan Panda as chief guest. School president Srutidhar Pradhan, secretary Sashibhusan Das, headmaster Mayadhar Sahoo, teachers and students participated in the programme. All remembered the two stalwarts who fought for India’s independence. APC secretary Bibhuti Khatua offered a vote of thanks.