Paradip body donates umbrellas to poor
Paradip: With torrential rains lashing the port town, Paradip Sakshyarata Samity (PSS) members on Saturday visited various places in and around the township and handed over umbrellas to the poor, destitute, physically-handicapped and old people. Paradip Port Trust Secretary UR Mohan Raju accompanied by SE (Mech) Susil Chandra Nahak, PPT Assistant Secretary BK Mallik and Paradip ladies’ Club members Kabita Nahak and Preeti Aarati Parija donated 20 umbrellas along with food items to the poor and needy.
JagatSinghpur students lock college gate
Jagatsinghpur: Agitated students of the Swami Arupananda Junior College in Raghunathpur block locked the college gate pressing fulfilment of their 10-point charter of demands on Saturday. later, college Principal and other management persons held discussions with the students’ leaders and assured that their demands would be considered within seven days. After this, the agitation was called off, informed student leaders Biswaranjan Sahoo, Santosh Kumar Parida and Swarnapriya Nayak.
Man arrested for attacking wife in JSpur
Jagatsinghpur: Police arrested a man for allegedly attacking his wife, who is undergoing treatment in the district hospital. The man was identified as Ashok Kumar Nayak, a resident of Alasudha village, three km from here. The victim woman Subhadra had incurred wrath of Ashok due to an alleged extramarital affair two days ago. Subhadra sustained serious head injuries following Ashok’s attack. Basing on Subhadra’s complaint, police arrested Ashok and forwarded him to court.
Apollo Clinic completes a year in Baleswar
Baleswar: The Apollo Clinic here has been providing super-specialty services like cardiology, neurology, rheumatology, nephrology, invitro fertilisation (IVF), etc., and along with consultation extending diagnostic facilities which are not only modern and also accurate, qualitative at an affordable price for common man. This was stated by the clinic management at a media meet recently on the occasion of completion of one year of the clinic’s service in Baleswar.
OPGC Unit-2 capital overhaul begins
Jharsuguda: The planned capital overhaul of OPGC Unit-2 of 210 MW began here from Sunday for which the Unit-2 will remain shut down for 35 days. The annual overhaul of boiler along with associated power plant equipment and capital overhaul of turbine and generator would be carried out during the period. The planning was made in consultation with the State authorities namely GRIDCO and State load Despatch Centre (SlDC). Earlier, it was done from May 12 to June 2, 2016.