Elephant tramples elderly man to death
Baripada: An elephant trampled an elderly man to death near Rajabasa forest under the Baripada Forest Division on Sunday. The mishap took place when Chaturbhuja Nayak (60) had gone out of his house to attend nature’s call in morning. Five elephants had strayed into the area last night.
Paradip College holds plantation drive
Paradip: On the World Environment Day, the volunteers of Youth Red Cross (YRC) wing of Paradip College undertook a massive plantation in the premises of the college. BN Biswal, YRC counsellor of the college, took up active initiatives in this regard with SG Jena, Lecturer in Chemistry and Ganeswar Patra, Lecturer in English, who made the day memorable and created an environmental awareness among the YRC volunteers. The volunteers actively cooperated in the noble endeavour maintaining social distancing and wearing masks.
PPTOPA donates Rs 60K to fight Covid
Paradip: The Paradip Port Trust Officers Pensioners Association (PPTOPA), has contributed Rs 60,000 to the PM CARES and Odisha Chief Minister’s Relief fund to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. The amount was collected as a voluntary contribution from the members of the association who are from across the country. PPTOPA president Keschav Chandra Das and secretary Shesadev Sahoo were present.
Parida JSpur MP Nominee for Paradip
Paradip: Jagatsinghpur MP Dr Rajashree Mallick has appointed Mahendra Parida of Madhuban, Paradip as her Nominee for Paradip. Parida would look after the political affairs of the BJD on her behalf and also carry out her decisions. He would also coordinate with the Paradip MLA for Mallick. Parida can be contacted on telephone numbers, 9438301010 and 9777663610, informed Mallick.
Man, sister-in-law found hanging in B’swar
Baleswar: The Baliapal police have begun investigation into an incident of a man and a woman being found hanging from a casuarina tree at the Dagara beach in Baleswar district on Saturday. One of the deceased was identified as Ananta Majhi of Chaumukh and the woman was his sister-in-law( wife’s sister). Though the exact reason behind the duo taking the extreme step was yet to be ascertained, it is suspected that they committed suicide over a love relationship. Intially some cattle grazers spotted the bodies and informed locals and police.
INS Chilka holds Environment Day
Khordha: The INS Chilka celebrated the World Environment Day with the theme, 'Biodiversity', of Friday, aiming to spread awareness and instill environment friendly culture among all members of the station community. The members comprise service personnel, DSC and Defence civilians along with their families and trainees.
Aditya Aluminium observes Environ Day
Bhubaneswar: The Aditya Aluminium organised a massive plantation drive, awareness prorammes and competitions on environment on the occasion of the World Environment Day at its plant locations at Lapanga in Sambalpur district on Friday. SPCB Regional Officer Dilip Das, Rengali Forester HK Patra, Ranger Pravin Singh, Rengali block Vice-Chairman Satyanarayan Agarwal and company HR Head
Dr Vivekanand Mishra and CSR head Sweta Upadhayay were present. This year, the Aditya Aluminium has decided to plant 1 lakh saplings and develop 500 kitchen gardens by providing five fruit bearing saplings to each SHG women.
Environ Day observed at NTPC Kaniha
Talcher: The World Environment Day was celebrated at NTPC Talcher Kaniha on Friday. CGM Sudip Nag highlighted the importance of the day and said urgent steps should be taken for protection of the environment. He said the NTPC has so far saved 4,000 full grown trees by adopting paperless initiative. The NTPC Talcher Kaniha has planted more than 14.6 lakh trees in and around its plant, he said.
MCL hoists flag on Environment Day
Bhubaneswar: The Corporate Environment and Forest Department of the MCL observed the World Environment Day on Friday. A flag hoisting ceremony was done in front of its corporate office at Burla. MCL CMD BN Shukla inaugurated the event in the presence of Directors OP Singh, KRVasudevan and K Rao. CIL Chairman Pramod Agrawal’s message was read by Senior Manager DK Khanda.