Phulbani doc gets 4-yr jail for bribery
Phulbani: Vigilance Judge Biranchi Narayan Mishra awarded a four-year jail term to Dr Pitha Charan Murmu and imposed a fine of Rs 30,000 on him while convicting him in a bribe case. The doctor had taken bribe of Rs 10,000 from a person for conducting a delivery. The Vigilance police had caught him red-handed while taking the bribe money. Basing upon evidence of nine witnesses, the Judge pronounced the punishment.
K’mal HM awarded 5 yrs of RI in graft case
Phulbani: The Special Vigilance Judge here has convicted Kandhamal district’s former Daringbadi block Sidhupaderi New Primary School Headmaster in-charge Bimbadhar Rout in a graft case and sentenced him to undergo five years of rigorous imprisonment. The court has also asked Rout to pay a fine of Rs 50,000, in default, to undergo one more year of RI. Rout, as the Headmaster in-charge, had misappropriated Government money during construction of the New Primary School Building at Sidhupaderi.
Class-XII: 100% results in Baripada KV
Baripada: The Kendriya Vidyalaya, laxmiposi, Baripada, after showing a brilliant performance in this year's Class-XII CBSE Board examination, has once again put up a sterling show in the CBSE Class-X Board examination. While 79 out of 79 examinees passed the test, 22 of them secured above 90% marks and only 10 students got below 60%. While Arpit Panda with 97.8% was the topper, the other top-rankers were Jyoti Shankar Pradhan (97.4%), Roshandeep Barik (97.2%), Shivam Sahu (96.6%), Siddharth Kumar Sahu (96%), Vidya Singh (96%), Rohit Mishra (96%), Spandan Sahu (95.8%), Hitesh Acharya (95.4%) and Anubhav Aditya (95%).
Condolence meeting held for Nimapara scribe
Nimapara: A condolence meeting was held for scribe Pratap Kumar Mohatra on his death’s 11th day here on Tuesday. Journalist Bibhuti Mohapatra presided over the meeting. Many politicians, social workers, lawyers, educationists, journalists were present. late Mohapatra, besides working with the Samaja, was president of the Puri District Journalists’ Association and the Utkal Sambadik Sangha. He died due to a prolonged illness. leaders like former MlA Benudhar Sethy, Pradipta Khatoi, Debendra Sahoo, Nabaghan Nayak, ZP Members Purnachandra Ojha and Pratap Mallik, lawyers Mrutyunjay Dash and Dillip Pattnaik and journalists Bichitrananda Sahoo, Pratap Mohanty and Pradeep Behera were present.
KTM holds stunt shows in Jajpur, Brahmapur
Bhubaneswar: European racing legend KTM organised stunt shows in Jajpur and Brahmapur recently to showcase the mind-blowing stunt rides and tricks from the professional stunt riders. The professional stunt team demonstrated breathtaking stunts on the KTM duke bikes. Till now, the KTM stunt shows have been organised at Surat, Rajkot, Ahmadabad, Coimbatore, Chennai, lucknow, Indore, Jabalpur, Aurangabad, Jammu, Jalandhar, Jodhpur, Salem, Vellore, Tanjore, Kollam, Nagercoil, Dindigul, Madurai and many other towns in the country.