Cops raid hookah bars in city
Bhubaneswar: The Commissionerate police raided several hookah bars here for allegedly violating the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Act (COTPA). The hookah bars operated in Delhi Darbar Bar and Bhawani Mall at Sahid Nagar and many others at Chandrasekharpur were raided on Sunday midnight. Several tobacco products were seized during the raids. The police conducted the raids following repeated allegations of violation of the COTPA.
Maharishi College alumni hold get-together
Bhubaneswar: The 1995-batch students of the Maharishi College of Natural law (MCNl) here organised a get-together for the first time after 22 years at the college campus on Monday. Addressing the alumni, former MCNl Principal Basant Kumar Sahoo said, "Alumni play a large role in determining the future and continued development of an institution. It is only because of alumni that the MCNl was awarded with NAAC accreditation.” Many MCNl old students have carved out a niche in various fields like law, media, public relations, teaching, real estate and Government and private sectors.
NYP holds blood donation camp
Bhubaneswar: The National Youth Project (NYP), Odisha in association with the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan organsied a blood donation camp here on Sunday. Freedom fighter Bhabani Charan Patnaik, Prahlad Sinha, BMC Mayor Ananta Narayan Jena, NYP State president Surjyakant Rath, convenor Madhusudan Das, Harihar Mahapatra, youth leader Debi Prasad Prusty, Nilkamal Mohanty, Basant Mahapatra, Anupam Chaterjee and Prasanna Sahu were present. Adarsh Kumar, Jyoshnarani Sahu, Gitanjali Sahu, Debjani Das, Priya Satpathy, Sunil Nayak, Manas Behera, Somnath, Sagar Nayak, Shree Shyam and Bikram Mahapatra coordinated the programme.
KAPOCH holds health camp in city slum
Bhubaneswar: The Kalinga Association for Protection of Culture and Heritage (KAPOCH) in association with the Kargil Nagar Slum Development Committee organised a health camp and distributed free medicines in the Kargil Nagar slums here on Sunday. Specialist doctors of paediatric and medicine examined 160 patients. Among others, KAPOCH chairman Sangram Keshari Paikray, Subhadra Mohanty, Kargir Slum president Rabi Narayan Das, secretary Anand Chandra Parida, Sushil Kumar Bhol were present. Every month, such a health camp would be organised by KAPOCH, informed Paikray.