Coal India Chairman to visit MCl today
Sambalpur: Coal India limited (CIl) Chairman Sutirtha Bhattacharya would visit the Mahanadi Coalfields limited (MCl) to review the performance of its flagship subsidiary in Odisha on Tuesday. During his visit, Bhattacharya is scheduled to take stock of mining operations in he Ib Valley Coalfields. MCl CMD AK Jha and other Directors would accompany the CIl Chairman during his visit. Bhattacharya would also chair a review meeting with MCl heads of various departments and Area General Managers
AAP demands Balangir sugar mill reopening
Balangir: Members of the Aam Aadmi Party’s Balangir unit led by Ajaya Das staged a demonstration before the district Collectorate here on Monday demanding reopening of the sugar mill at Deogaon. They alleged that due to apathy of the Government it is not opening early. The AAP workers burnt sugarcane before the Collectorate as a mark of protest. Ajaya Das alleged the district administration is not inviting farmers to the meetings held for reopening of the sugar mill.
Boy dies trapped in paddy threshing machine in K’handi
Dharmagarh: A minor boy, Pratap Majhi (14), died after getting trapped in the blades of a paddy threshing machine at Haladi village under the Dharmagarh police limits in Kalahandi late on Sunday night. Pratap and his friend had gone to a field to watch the paddy threshing process. Accidentally, the duo got trapped between the blades of the machine leading to Pratap’s death. His friend was critically injured and hospitalised. locals on Monday morning blocked the Dharmagarh-Simapali road demanding ex-gratia for the family of the deceased.
B’pur Shishu Mandir students felicitated
Brahmapur: The Siksha Bikash Samiti felicitated eight students of the Saraswati Vidya Mandir, Neelakantha Nagar for winning State-level Bharati Krushan Math Talent test and two Plus Two Commerce students of the school, Gajaraja Patnaik and lipsita Panigrahi, for getting 5th rank in the State. The students were felicitated at a programme held at the Saraswati Shishu Vidhya Mandir, Kankoroda road on Sunday. Neelakantha Nagar school Principal Umadhava Mohanty and secretary Sudarshan Pandi were also felicitated.
Gutkha factory unearthed in B’pur; one held
Brahmapur: The Brahmapur Town police unearthed a gutkha factory at luchapada in Kalua Nagar here on Sunday and seized two gunny sacks of tobacco, eight sacks of tobacco leaf, a mixer machine and ingredients used for manufacturing gutkha. The police arrested Rajendra Mishra of Somanth Nagar for running the factory, informed Town PS IIC SS Mohapatra.
Free ENT checkup camp held at N’rangpur
Nabarangpur: A free ENT (Ear, Nose and Tonsil) check-up camp was organised jointly by the Trishakti Cultural Society and the Advanced Speech Hearing Clinic, Ichabatiguda here on Monday. Society MD Monoj Patnaik inaugurated the camp. ENT specialist Dr Bulu Nahak and audiologist Madhusudan Patro examined as many as 100 patients. Among others, society advisor Prakash Samantaray, president Samir Nag and secretary Sankar Nayak were present.