Bhubaneswar : Nayapalli Police on Monday arrested a noted gold chain snatcher from the capital city and seized several loot items from his possession.
The looter has been identified as Bishnu Jena of Garadi, Dalimba of Konark area.
According to the information, Chandan was mostly active in several areas of Bhubaneswar. After several complaints, police arrested him and recovered seven gold chains along with a pulsar bike from his possession.
Further investigation in this case is underway.
Bhubaneswar : The Special Vigilance Court here on Monday awarded three years of jail term to senior IAS officer Vinod Kumar in connection with the Rs 1.02-crore scam in Odisha Rural Housing Development Corporation (ORHDC).
The IAS officer, and six others, have been charged with misappropriating funds in the ORHDC on the pretext of providing flats to the customers.
Earlier, Kumar was convicted for his financial irregularities to the tune of Rs 55 lakh. The former managing director of ORHDC was arrested on August 10 soon after he surrendered in court. The court had also ordered a three-year imprisonment for Kumar and former ORHDC Executive Director (Technical) Purna Chandra Das.
Vigilance Directorate had registered a case against Kumar and five other employees of the Corporation— Sanjay Mohanty, Purna Chandra Das, Pradip Kumar Rout, Chitta Ranjan Mohanty, and Ashish Kumar Nayak— in 2000 for their alleged involvement in financial irregularities to the tune of Rs 55 lakh in the construction of cyclone shelters after the Super Cyclone in October 1999.
Bhubaneswar : Encroachment has stood as a major hurdle before completion of the under construction parallel road on the right side of the busy Jaydev Vihar-Nandankanan route
The state government had planned to construct two new roads parallel to the existing road from Jaydev vihar to Nandankanan.
The left parallel road from Ekamrakanan to Pathargadia is also facing problems of encroachments and diversion of forest areas.
The administration is facing opposition in eviction of some parts of Saliasahi and Chunakoli slums. Out of the 13 km stretch, construction of 9.5 km has been completed and the rest 3.5 km stretch is yet to be completed.
The administration evicted many roadside shops and slums ahead of the hockey world cup. However, it failed to demolish these two slums as slum dwellers are opposing the eviction drive.
The Jaydev Vihar-Nandankanan road is one of the busiest in the city. Several educational institutions and commercial establishments are connected through the road. It also has residential areas in localities such as Sailashree Vihar and Niladri Vihar.
Balangir: An album singer from Western Odisha, was found dead inside her uncle’s house in Balangir district, but passed her vision to the needy. The family members of the deceased donated her eyes at Bhima Bhoi Medical College,Balangir.
According to reports, Ruchismita was found hanging inside a house at Sudapada in Balangir. She is a native of Sonepur district. However, she has been living in Talpali area of the Balangir Town along with her family members.
Ruchismita, who also has acted in some album songs, had recently visited her maternal uncle’s house in Balangir. However, she was found dead inside the house.
On being informed by the family members, Balangir Town Police reached the spot and seized the body. They sent the body to the hospital for postmortem. However, the autopsy could not be done awing to darkness.
Police are questioning the family members to get some clues regarding her mysterious death. Effort by the cops is on to ascertain the exact reason that prompted her to take the drastic step.
Meanwhile, people suspect that there was some family dispute over her alleged affair with a youth.
Jagatsinghpur: In a tragic incident, three students goes missing while another had a brush with death while taking bath in Devi river near Machagaon under Balikuda block of Jagatsinghpur district today.
The incident took place when four students belonging to a college in Satyanagar of Bhubaneswar went to the Devi river in Jagatsinghpur to take bath.
The deceased students were residents of Satyanagar, Bhubaneswar and Ambasala village in Jagatsinghpur.
It is suspected that due to the strong current of the river, the students were swept away.
On being informed about the incident, the fire brigade personnel reached the spot and started the rescue operation. Following which, out of the four, one was rescued.
More details awaited.
Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology ( KIIT ), which has been popularizing chess for past 15 years, has achieved yet another success in the field of sports. The institution has been affiliated to the All India Chess Federation (AICF) and is now eligible to conduct various programmes under the administrative body.
KIIT is the first and only private academy in the country to get this affiliation. Following the approval by the AICF’s executive council, a special general council meeting was held on Sunday which also approved the agreement. As a result of this partnership, KIIT will now be able to directly host Grandmaster tournaments as well as various events of the World Chess Federation.
KIIT and KIIS founder and Kandhamal MLA, Dr. Achyuta Samanta, thanked FIDE Advisory Board Chairman and Asian Chess Federation Deputy President Bharat Singh Chouhan and AICF Joint Editor Ranjan Mohanty for this historic partnership.
Dr. Samanta said in his speech that chess will get all support from Odisha and the plan is to make the state stand number one in the game across the country. Notably, since 2011 Chess has been included in the school curriculum at KIIT & KISS under the auspices of the Indian Chess Association by FIDE.
Bhubaneswar: Biju Janata Dal (BJD) chief and Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Monday appointed new party observers for the 30 districts of Odisha.
BJD general secretary Pranab Prakash Das has been made observer for four districts, including Anugul, Dhenkanal, Keonjhar and Sambalpur.
Likewise, senior leaders Atanu Sabyasachi Nayak and Dibya Shankar Mishra have been given the responsibility of two districts each while others have been assigned one district each.
Rabindra Kumar Jena (Khurda), Amaresh Jena (Deogarh) and Debesh Acharya (Sonepur) are the new faces on the list.
Below is the full list of BJD observers for various districts:
Hyderabad: Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leaders K. Kavitha and her brother K.T. Rama Rao have lashed out at BJP after one of the convicts in Bilkis Bano gang-rape case shared stage with a BJP MP and MLA in Gujarat.
BRS working president K. T. Rama Rao also launched an attack on BJP describing it as Balatkaar Justification Party. “Welcome to Amritkaal,” taunted KTR. “Balatkaar Justification Party and its brazen embrace of these rapists is a true reflection of their mindset,” tweeted KTR.
Kavitha’s reaction:
Kavitha, daughter of BRS president and Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao, took to Twitter to express her outrage.
“Bilkis Bano rapist openly shares stage with BJP’s MPs and MLAs. What have we become as a community that perpetrators of heinous crimes against women are being celebrated and given a platform while the victims plead for justice. India is watching!,” tweeted Kavitha, a member of Telangana Legislative Council, while reacting to a news and picture of the convict sharing the stage with BJP MP and MLA.
Shailesh Bhatt, one of the 11 convicted in the Bilkis Bano gang-rape case and murder of her kin during Gujarat riots of 2022, shared the stage with a BJP MP and MLA in Gujarat at a government function in Dahod district on March 25.
The convict was seen sharing the stage with Dahod MP Jasvantsinh Bhabhor and Limkheda MLA Sailesh Bhabor.
Bhatt was among 11 convicts released on Independence Day last year after remission of their sentence. Bilkis Bano has already moved the Supreme Court challenging the premature release of the convicts.
The eleven persons were convicted for the gang-rape of Bilkis Bano, who was then five months pregnant, and for killing seven members of her family, including her three-year-old daughter.
Bhubaneswar: As there is surge in Covid-19 cases in Odisha for the last couple of days, all the CDMOs, public health officers have been requested to monitor the Covid-19 situation regularly, informed Niranjan Mishra, director of public health.
As per the ICMR, ILI/SARI surveillance to be intensified and Covid-19 testing to be augmented and to be reported through IHIP Portal.
All the Covid data to be updated regularly in S3 portal ensuring clearance of backlog at the earliest. The Covid situation to be analysed regularly, particularly for clustering of cases if any and to take cluster environment measures.
All the Covid samples should be sent to Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS) centre positively. Covid treatment in each govt medical colleges to be done and make sure they have enough Covid isolation beds and oxygen support beds. All cases of home isolation should be provided with required treatment as per the protocol to be monitored regularly.
To ensure stockouts, the supply chain for Covid test kits,consumables and drugs should be monitored regularly.
Former Karnataka chief minister and senior BJP leader B S Yediyurappa’s house has been attacked by an angry mob in Shivamogga district on Monday.
According to reports, a large number of protestors belonging to the Banjara community are not happy with the state government’s recent decision to provide internal reservations in Schedule Caste/Scheduled Tribe (SC/ST) community.
The decision was made on March 24 where a 6% internal quota for SC (Left), 5.5% for SC (Right), 4.5% for SC (touchable that includes the Banjara community) and 1% for others was recommended.
Many in the Banjara community feel that the decision would take away their SC status and hence demanded that the state government withdraw the decision with immediate effect.