Pallahara MLA Mukesh Pal tests Covid +ve
Pallahara: Local BJD MLA Mukesh Pal tested positive for Covid on Sunday. Ahead of Assembly session, Pal, his PSO and eight co-workers went to their Pallahara medical and got their samples tested through antigen mode. The report of Pal’s sample test came positive only. He is asymptomatic and staying in home quarantine.
Phulbani Bar member dies of Covid
Phulbani: The District Bar Association, Phulbani has lost a senior member, Suresh Kumar Mahapatra, due to Covid. Mahapatra succumbed while undergoing treatment at the KIIMS Covid Hospital, Bhubaneswar. He was very cooperative and always thinking of the good of bar. He had initiated a welfare fund for the security of lawyers’ families. Another senior member, MVK Rao also died due to heart attack. He would be remembered for helping junior colleagues.
Phulbani bizman dies of corona
Phulbani: Prominent businessman and social worker of Phulbani town P Ramachandra Senapati passed away due to coronavirus on Sunday. He had been admitted in the Kandhhamal DHH here and then shifted to a Bhubaneswar hospital. The Gundicha market here was closed as a mark of last respect to him. He is survived by his wife and a son.
90 kg ganja seized; 1 held in Phulbani
Phulbani: Police arrested and court-forwarded a person after seizing 90kg of ganja from his car here on Sunday. The accused, identified as Pradeep Kumar Behera of Athagharh in Cuttack district, was booked under various sections of the NDPS Act. The car was also seized.
Bhitarkanika Park to reopen from Oct 1
Kendrapada: The Bhitarkanika National Park in Kendrapada district, which was closed on March 13 due to the Covid-19 outbreak, will reopen for tourists from October 1. However, the visitors will not be allowed to enter the park during daytime. Those opting to spend night at Dangamal by booking rooms will only be allowed to visit the park, informed Rajnagar DFO Bikash Ranjan Das. Room booking facility at Gupti and Habalikhati will remain suspended. The rooms can be booked online on the website www.ecotourodisha.com.
Woman looted of Rs 1.25L at Paralakhemundi
Paralakhemundi: Miscreants broke open a dickey of a woman’s bike and looted away Rs 1.25 lakh at an eye hospital near the SBI Main Branch here in the broad daylight on Saturday. Jayalaxmi Mohanty, a teacher, had drawn the amount from the SBI and kept it in her bike’s dickey. She parked the vehicle in front of the Sara Eye Care and went for some work. But on her return, she saw the dickey broken and the money missing. She lodged a complaint at the Paralakhemundi Model police station.
Athagarh dibyang woman gets tricycle
Athagarh: Social workers Sofia Firdos, chairman of Moquim Foundation and Manash Bastia, president of Athagarh Bikash Manch offered a tricycle free of cost to one Rama Ghadei, a dibyang poor woman of Kakhadi Sabarasahi under Tangi-Choudwar block. Getting information that Rama was leading a miserable life after her tricycle was damaged atleast seven years ago and after repeated appeals to the administration and people's representatives she had failed to get one for long, the philanthropists came out to help the destitute. On intimation Manash Bastia contacted Sofia to extend her support to the dibyang.
24-yr-old youth electrocuted in Bhapur
Bhapur (Nayagarh): In a tragic mishap, a 24-year-old youth died coming in contact with an 11-KV electric wire at Manikia Badagaudasahi under the Fategarh area in Nayagarh district on Saturday. The deceased was identified as Hari Bhanj, son of Gobinda Bhanj. He was repairing gate of the Fategarh High School when the mishap occurred. He was the only bread and butter earner of the family. He had married four months back.
1,800 cough syrup bottles seized; 1held in B’ngir
Balangir: The Balangir town police arrested one Jagabandhu Meher alias Jaga of Malpada after seizing 1,800 bottles of cough syrup from his house and car on Satruday evening. The accused was forwarded to court on Sunday.