Dacoity bid foiled; 5 held in B’pur
Brahmapur: The Brahapur Town police foiled a dacoity bid by arresting five miscreants from a street in the Gandhinagar area here recently. The police seized a motorbike, two swords, two iron rods and other lethal weapons. They were identified as Rabindra Sethi (28) of luchapada Bada Sahi, Basant Baral (34) of Gangapur Chakula, Kuna Sethi (25) of Gali Bazaar, N Santosh Patro(25) of Bijipur Rath Sahi and Sanjay Kumar Sethi of Nilakanth Nagar. The arrested have been court-forwarded, said Town PS IIC Nihar Ranjan Pradhan.
Bike rider killed in accident in JSpur
Jagatsinghpur: A bike rider, Deepak Ranjan Samantray, of Baleipur village in the Ersama area was killed in a road accident at Bhiteraandhari on the Kujang-Panchapally road on Tuesday night. He was returning village to when a pickup van hit him head on.
JSpur girl’s body found in river
Jagatsinghpur: A teen aged girl who had gone missing two days ago was
found dead in river Devi at Podabaruon near Machhagon under Balikuda block on Monday evening. The girl was identified as lijarani Sethy, a resident of Machhagaon. On Sunday morning, she had gone to the riverbank to pluck flower but did not return home. Her family members had lodged a police complaint. locals spotted her body floating on river water and alerted the police.
Jajpur Rd BJP holds Swachhta drive on PM b’day
Jajpur Road: The BJP Vyasadev Mandal and Mahila Morcha conducted a Swachh Bharat programme on the birthday of Prime Minister Modi at the Chunavati Project School here. Jajpur district Media Cell secretary Dushmanta Rout, Swachh Bharat coordinator Satyanarayan Mohanty, Mandal president Nityananda Mahalik, Media Cell president Santosh Rath, Mahila Morcha president Bidyutprava Ray, VP Sabita Khuntia, Diptimayee Nayak, Sumitra Mishra, Puja Das, Pabitra Mohanty, social activists Suresh Hota, Abhiram Parida, Rama Barik, Kartikeswar Palai, Dr Amiya Kumar Jena, Arun Das, youth leader Prasant Nayak, headmaster Ranjit Kumar Mohapatra, assistant teacher Haripriya Satapathy, Angurabala Rath, Samapika Panda, laxmipriya Mohanty, Fulamani Marandi, Sunita Soren, Pramila Sarkar participated in the programme and cleaned the school premises.
MCl bags 1st position for Swachhta activities
Sambalpur: The Mahanadi Coalfields limited (MCl) has bagged the 1st position for Swachhta activities organised by the Coal India limited. The MCl was adjudged top scorer among the eight sister subsidiaries of the Coal India limited. MCl CMD AK Jha congratulated the MCl team for being the frontrunner in carrying forward the Swachh Bharat campaign for a clean India.