Brown sugar seized; 1 held in Khordha
Khordha: Excise Department personnel on Friday conducted a raid in the New Bus-Stand area here and seized 16 grams of brown sugar from the possession of one Gyana Ranjan Khuntia (45), a native of Kotuan village under the Kishan Nagar police station in Cuttack district. The estimated value of the seized contraband is around Rs 1.60 lakh. An NDPS case was registered against Khuntia and he was forwarded to court.
ApMoSys donates Rs 2L to CM relief fund
Khordha: ApMoSys Technologies Private Limited founders Bibhu Prasad Padhi and Sangeeta Padhy, both are siblings, donated Rs 2 lakh to the Chief Minister’s Relief Fund on Friday. Both are engineers by profession and started the ApMoSys in 2012. “We have more than 350 resource persons. We are always trying to do something for Odisha by creating employments and donating in our capacity to the CMRF. More than 60 resource persons are Odia,” they said.
SP pays tributes to Jayaprakash on birth anniv
Bhubaneswar: The Samajwadi Party (SP) Odisha State Committee celebrated the 117th birth anniversary of Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Narayan paying floral tributes at his statue at Master Canteen Square here on Friday. Party State president Rabi Behera led the programme. Party State general secretary Sudarshan Pradhan, Bijay Behera, Sanjay Nayak, youth leader Subrat Lenka and women leader Rita Patnaik also participated.
Bhasani Utsav Samiti 1st souvenir unveiled
Bhubaneswar: The Bhubaneswar Bhasani Utsav Samiti’s first souvenir was unveiled on Bhasani Utsav held in the city on Wednesday under the chairmanship of Samiti president Dr Jagannath Mahapatra. Bhubaneswar DCP Anup Sahoo attended as chief guest and released the souvenir. Among others, Samiti advisor Rabindra Nath Biswal, VPs Suresh Chandra Routray and Dillip Dashsharma and general secretary Harish Prasad Rath were present.
Manas Senapati awarded Guru Gourav Samman
Bhubaneswar: Dr Manas Ranjan Senapati, Dean of Faculty of Computer Application and Science, was awarded the Guru Gourav Samman by Andhra Pradesh Governor Biswabhusan Harichandan. He was conferred by the Lok Sevak Mandal during centenary celebration of The Samaja at Barabati Stadium in Cuttack. Dr Senapati is Professor of Chemistry at the Trident Academy of Technology, Bhubaneswar.