Car-borne youths kidnap Jaleswar girl
Baleswar: A girl was allegedly kidnapped by a group of car-borne youths in Jaleswar on Monday. Police began an investigation into the incident, details of which were to be known.
Youth held in B’pur lawyer attack case
Brahmapur: The Big Bazaar police here arrested a youth in connection with the attack on senior lawyer Prafulla Jagannath Padhy a week back. The arrested was identified as A Santosh Kumar Patro (38) of Sastri Navar. Patro along with an associate had attacked Padhy with a sharp weapon at Prem Nagar on August 20 as the latter had protested the duo’s rash driving. While Padhy had been hospitalised, members of the Ganjam Bar Association and the Ganjam-Gajapati Notari Association had urged the SP to take action against the culprits. A motorcycle from Santosh was also seized, said SP Pinak Mishra.
RPF holds awareness against stone pelting
Brahmapur: The Railway Protection Force (RPF), Brahmapur on Monday organised an awareness programme at Ram Nagar level crossing here about the impacts of stone pelting at trains and chain pulling in trains on passengers. The officials said stone pelting can lead to severe injury, permanent disability and even endanger live of passengers and alarm chain pulling causes loss of punctuality of trains and tresspasing of railway track. SI CK Tiwari, SI B Panda, ASI S Sahu, ASI BR Rao were present, among others.
Navnirman youth wing meet held at JSpur
Jagatsinghpur: The Navanirman Sangathan youth wing’s district-level meet was held here on Saturday. Organisation State convener Manwar Ali chaired the meeting. He said present generation youths are skipping ideology and inspiration of our late leaders like Mahatma Gandhi, Subhas Chandra Bose and Swami Vivekananda and are victims of moral degradation. So, he appealed to the youths to follow the ideology of forefathers to make the youth power strong. Among others, Askhya Kumar, Seshadev Nanda and RashmiRanjan Swain spoke.
Mercedes-Benz showroom opens in Cuttack
Cuttack: The Mercedes-Benz on Monday inaugurated one of Odisha’s largest luxury car dealerships in the twin-cities of Bhubaneswar and Cuttack. Mercedes-Benz India MD and CEO Martin Schwenk, T & T Motors MD Vidur Talwar and ED Rohan Talwar inaugurated the facility. The inauguration of T & T Motors underlines Mercedes-Benz’s commitment to reach out to customers and grow the luxury car segment in emerging markets. The 3S facility (sales, service and spares) will act as a one-stop-shop for all the sales and customer service requirements for customers in Cuttack, Bhubaneswar, Rourkela, Sambalpur and adjoining areas.