Gangadhar Meher death anniv observed
Bhubaneswar: The Gangadhar Meher Jayanti Committee in association with the Paschim Odisha Agrani Sangathan, Bhubaneswar Bhulia Samaj, Utkal Sammilani, Punya Utkal and the International Theatre observed the 95th death anniversary of poet Gangadhar Meher here on Friday. Members of different organisations garlanded the statue of the legendary poet at Gangadhar Meher Marg under chairmanship of committee organising secretary Dillip Dashsharma. Committee advisor Narendra Kumar Mishra, Pradumnya Satpathy, Dr Manindra Kumar Meher, Geeta Meher, Subash Mishra, Manikar Meher, Dr Aditya Patra, Sital Chandra Mohanty, Shiv Prasad Mishra, Maheswar Biswal, Ashok Kumar Paltasingh and others also garlanded Meher’s statue.
BBSR Central: FPI nominee files papers
Bhubaneswar: Freethought Party of India (FPI) candidate Nilamadhav Behera filed his nomination papers for the Bhubaneswar Central Assembly seat on Thursday. Behera presented his papers to the Bhubaneswar ADM Arun Kumar Behera in the presence of party functionaries, president Dr Bijayananda Kar, general secretary B Ramachandra CST Voltaire. An entrepreneur, Behera has appealed to people to vote for him so that he can pressurize the Government to open “free registration” of love marriage offices, prayerless quality English medium schools and family planning centres at the GP level all over Odisha.
Cuttack-Choudwar candidate campaigns in slums
Cuttack: Socialist Unit Centre of India (Communist) Cuttack-Choudwar candidate Sasmita Mohany has been campaigning in the slum areas of the city. “I have been fighting to provide homestead land and houses to slum dwellers. If elected, I will expedite my fight for protection of basic and democratic rights of the slum dwellers,” she said.
SBI provides vehicles to Ghatagaon Tarini Temple
Bhubaneswar: The State Bank of India, Local Head Office, Bhubaneswar, provided two Tata ACE tippers to Maa Tarini Temple Trust, Ghatagaon president Rajendra Kumar Patnaik and executive officer Ananda Chandra Singh here on Friday. The vehicles were given away by Circle CGM Praveena Kala to collect coconuts offered by devotees from various places of Keonjhar district. Among others, bank GM (I) DS Mishra, GM (II) G Bhattacharya, DGM and CDO ST Lama, DGM (B and O) K Sharma, RM PK Nayak and SBI, Ghatagaon BM Jyoti Behera were present.
Red Cross holds blood donation camp
Bhubaneswar: The Indian Red Cross Society, in association with the Commissionerate police, Dheya Education, DLF, JLL, Lions Club and Blood Donors Are Life Savers organised a blood donation camp at DLF Cyber City here on Friday. ACP Lalatendu Mohanty inaugurated the camp. A total of 55 units of blood were collected with new donors numbering 50. Among others, Dheya Education director Samarth Satya, Pratik Mohapatra, Ashok Kumar Sarada, Tripti Dev, Red Cross life members Deepak Choudhury, Laxman Swain, Namabrahma Kar and Kalpataru Rout were present.
St Xavier Parents’ Assn office-bearers elected
Bhubaneswar: New office-bearers of the Parents’ Association of the St Xavier High School, Kedargouri were elected recently. Satyabrata Parija as president, Rajesh Kumar Mishra and Lopamudra Kar as vice-presidents, Suryakanta Rout as secretary, Chandrakala Sahoo, Nihar Parija, Prabhat Kumar Mohaptra and Raghunath Mishra as assistant secretaries, Bidyadhar Nayak as treasurer and Dillip Kumar Patra as assistant treasurer were elected.