DAV CSPur’s Shrutija secures 98.4% in Class-X exams
Bhubaneswar: Shrutija Swain of the DAV School, Chandrasekharpur has secured 98.4 per cent marks in the CBSE Class-X examinations 2020, the results of which were published recently. She is daughter of Sangram Keshari Swain, Special Secretary, Steel and Mines Department and Sailaja Bhuyan, Senior Lecturer at the Government Polytechnic, Bhubaneswar.
Woman killed as crane hits her in Athagarh
Cuttack: A woman died being hit by a crane at Radhagovindpur Chhak under the Athagarh police limits on Tuesday morning. Sushma Sahu (40) was crossing the road to pluck flowers when the speeding crane hit her killing her on the spot. The crane also rammed into a house after this mishap. The house was severely damaged. The driver of the crane fled the spot.
Chandabali RI held taking bribe
Cuttack: Vigilance officers on Tuesday arrested Bhadrak district’s Chanabali RI Subrat Kumar Mallick on the charge of taking bribe of Rs 3,000 from Kishore Kumar Panda Panasapada village in order to submit an enquiry report for issue of legal heir certificate. Mallick was caught red-handed while taking the bribe money. His office room at Chandabali and house at native Badakiari village in Bhadrak were being searched.
11 cattle rescued from trafficking in Rourkela
Rourkela: Some members of the Bajrang Dal on Tuesday rescued 11 cattle from a pickup van at Bishra Chhack in Rourkela city when the animals were allegedly being trafficked from the Kutra area to Bisra in Sundargarh district. Getting information, the Plant Site police reached the spot, seized the vehicle and arrested a person identified as Pervez Hussain. But driver of the pickup van and four others who were escorting the van in an SUV managed to flee from the spot before the cops arrived.