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  • Security Guards, Robber Mowed Down By Trailer Truck During Hot Chase In Odisha

    Security Guards, Robber Mowed Down By Trailer Truck During Hot Chase In Odisha

    Rourkela: Bodies of two staff of a construction company and a member of a lootera gang, who were reportedly mowed down by a trailer truck, were recovered near Chhatabar under Hemagiri police limits in Odisha’s Sundargarh district on Tuesday.

    The deceased have been identified as Manas Kumar Rath of Mahulapali under Bheden police limits in Bargarh district, Prince Nayak of Udusu village under Bisra police limits in Sundargarh district and Sachin Chitaki of Balinga under Hemagiri police limits.

    According to sources, an SUV carrying a marriage party skidded off the road and overturned at the spot on April 29. Two security guards of a company engaged in construction of Bankibahal-Taparia road saw some miscreants stealing tyres of the damaged vehicle and chased them but were hit by a trailer truck last night. The security guards and one of the robbers died on the spot.

    Police have recovered the bodies and started an investigation into the incident.

  • Andhra Dy CM’s Kotia Visit Adds Fuel To Dispute With Odisha

    Bhubaneswar: Fresh visit of Andhra Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Peedika Rajanna Dora to Kotia group of villages under Pottangi block of Odisha’s Koraput district amid territorial dispute between the two states has triggered vairous speculations.

    This was stated to be his third visit to the disputed Kotia area in last five months. He was accompanied by Salur Tehsildar, BDO, and security personnel.

    Dora visited Kotia area on Monday, days after logos of Andha government containing the picture of Chief Minister Jaganmohan Reddy were pasted on concrete houses provided by Odisha government to poor villagers of Talasembi and Uparsembi under the panchayat.

    Accompanied by the supporters of YSR Congress and Andhra officials, Dora today visited Phatu Sineri, Phagun Sineri and Kanadora villages of Kotia and enquired about the implementation of welfare measures launched by AP government in the area.

    While interacting with the villagers during his door-to-door visit, the Andhra Pradesh Dy CM reportedly stated that Odisha and Andhra Pradesh are brothers.

    It may be noted here that Dora had visited Dhoolipadar village of Kotia on February 9, this year and informed people about various welfare schemes being implemented by Andhra Pradesh.

    Odisha and Andhra Pradesh are engaged in a five-decade-long dispute over the ownership of Kotia group of villages. Both the states have been claiming their territorial control over Kotia since early 1960s.

    Dora’s statement describing Odisha and Andhra as brothers has fueled a variety of speculations regarding the real intention of the neighbouring state.

    Terming the Andhra Minister’s visit as unfurtunate, senior Congress leader and MLA Tara Prasad Bahinipati accused the Odisha government of neglecting the area. The Odisha government should take immediate steps to prevent any form of intrusion by Andhra Pradesh into Kotia, he said.

  • College Girl Found Hanging In Odisha’s Balangir

    College Girl Found Hanging In Odisha’s Balangir

    Balangir: The body of a college girl was found hanging from a tree near a village in Patnagarh area of Odisha’s Balangir district on Sunday.

    Sources said locals found the girl hanging from a tree with a scarf near Gangasagar village on Patnagarh-Kantabanji main road and informed the police.

    She was identified as Ranju Dandasena, a student of Jawaharlal (Degree) College in Patnagarh. A bag and mobile phone were found lying at the spot. A scooter was also found near the site.

    A team of police personnel rushed to the spot on getting information and seized the bag and a mobile phone reportedly belonging to the deceased. A scientific team was also sent to examine the spot.

    Police launched an investigation to ascertain whether the girl had committed suicide or someone murdered her and hung the body.

    As per preliminary reports, the girl belonged to Dumerpadar village in the area and she was staying in a hostel while pursuing studies at Patnagarh.

    Family members of the girl alleged that she was murdered saying her feet were found touching the ground. Somebody has killed and hung her body, alleged girl’s mother Pankajini Dandasena.

    Police said prima facie it appeared to be a case of suicide, but a clear picture will be available after getting the postmortem report.

  • Man dies of shock soon after son’s death in Sonpur

    Man dies of shock soon after son’s death in Sonpur

    Sonepur: In a harrowing incident, a man died of shock shortly after the death of his son as he was unable to bear the loss in Odisha’s Sonepur district.

    The deceased have been identified as Adi Sa and his son Artatrana Sa of Tarava area of the district.

    Sources said Adi was not well and Artatrana had taken him Bhima Bhoi Medical College and Hospital at Balangir for treatment.

    However, after they reached the hospital, Artatrana complained of uneasiness after seeing his father’s serious condition. A short-while later, he collapsed and died in the hospital.

    Following this, Adi was shocked and breathed his last after being unable to bear his son’s death all of a sudden.

    The tragedy has left the family devastated as Artatrana is survived by his wife and a divyang son. He was the only earning member of the family, said a villager.

    A pall of gloom descended on the village as the mortal remains of both were consigned to flames at the cremation ground simultaneously.

  • Doctor gifts his village to no-fee international school in Odisha

    Doctor gifts his village to no-fee international school in Odisha

    New Delhi/ Bhubaneswar: A person, who spent his childhood in Odisha’s Berunapadi village of Keonjhar district working as a labourer, and finally became a doctor after overcoming adversities of his life, has gifted his village a no-fee world-class school.

    According to Pradeep Sethi, who studied at All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi, despite becoming a doctor in the national capital, he used to long for his village.

    About 15 years after completing his studies and starting practice, Sethi went back to his village, encouraged villagers about education and bought land to build an international school.

    Meanwhile, many villagers also joined him and donated their land to start the school, after which a big educational institution was built.

    According to Sethi, he did not want his effort to be limited to only one school.

    The institution is equipped with all world-class facilities will have an expert faculty from abroad and celebrities like Jubin Nautiyal, Sonu Nigam for teaching music, former Indian cricket team captain Ravi Shastri for sports, Rajiv Bajaj for business.

    The school has been built for kids who are extremely poor and unable to afford education. Presently, this school is built on 10 acres which will later be extended to 20 acres. The school can enroll around 2,500 students.

    According to Sethi, no fee is charged from any student for any work in the school. Many skill development and placement courses will be developed in the institution which has Classes from 1-12. Around 50 more new classrooms are being added to the school.

    The school’s director said that the educational institute seeks to replicate the academic standards of Ivy League universities like Stanford and Harvard.

    Besides, many professional courses have also been introduced here like fisheries, Information Technology and science, among others.

  • Bhubaneswar: When She Untangled ‘Taboos’ & ‘Traditions’ For Safe Delivery Among Kondh Women In Odisha

    Bhubaneswar: When She Untangled ‘Taboos’ & ‘Traditions’ For Safe Delivery Among Kondh Women In Odisha

    Bhubaneswar: When Sashi Miniaka, the ASHA at Khambesh in Odisha’s Rayagada, set about batting for institutional delivery, she provoked the rancour and resentment of her Kondh tribal society. For ‘iconoclastic bombast’ was feared to bomb down the social edifice where samta-s (village heads) and disari-s (local priests and healers) with stale social mores and morals ruled the roost.

    Even women thumbed nose at her. Trapped in the tangles of taboos and traditions, they preferred ‘hazardous’ home delivery in the presence of their village dai-s (midwives) to ‘healthy’ institutional delivery under male doctors’ supervision.

    Spiked with scorn and sarcasm, Shashi’s spirit seemed ebbing out. But, it registered a phoenix-rise in 2019, when she was cherry-picked to be a soldier in the battalion of 220 ASHA and Anganwadi workers of 288 villages in four blocks under UNICEF’s Sampurna Barta Project (SBP). She shrugged off all barbs and bullies to press on with all her pace and power, batting for institutional delivery. Ultimately she breasted the tape, when everybody including dai-s, disari-s and samta-s in Phuluguda, Khambesh and Kanabesu (her areas of operation)) started rallying round her. Now supported by every villager, she is going great guns.

    “I had resorted to home delivery to give birth to my two children in inimical conditions. When UNICEF trained me on institutional delivery, I realised how safe it was. So I made up my mind to persuade expectant mothers to go in for it,” Sashi says.

    Then Sashi, kitted out with her panoply of flip books, posters, leaflets and mother-and-child protection cards, marched forward to convince pregnant women of the benefits of institutional delivery. She traversed hilly and wild terrains and covered over five kilometres daily to motivate and mobilise people. Her effort bore fruit, when eight institutional deliveries took place in Khambesh alone in 2019 that shot up to over 36 in next four years.

    Initially expectant mothers were frightened at being vaccinated and laid on the operation table. They even shied away from being touched and treated by male gynaecologists. “Once one Sundarmani of Khambesh took to her heels, when she heard that a male gynaecologist would do her check-up at the primary health centre in Khubabikota, about 17 kilometres from Khambesh. Fortunately Sashi was present there. She persuaded Sundarmani back to the health centre,” says Purusottama Sahu, a farmer in nearby village Hadia. Impressed with Sashi’s effort, he volunteered to throw in his lot with her.

    Sashi has coherently diversified her activities related to immunisation, the nitty-gritty of care of the newborns, infant and young child feeding practices and many more ventures under SBP. “Sashi never misses Health, Sanitation and Nutrition Days for the sake of mothers and babies in the areas under her jurisdiction. She exuded immense affability to endear everybody. This is why our SBP proved a success in her areas,” says Santosh Behera, a UNICEF official.

    Lusi Niska, a Kondh mother in Khambesh, lends credence to what Santosh observes. “When my daughter was born, she weighed less than 1100 grams. Now my daughter is eight months old and she weighs more than five kilograms. It has been possible only because of Sashi’s guidance,” says Lusi.

  • Gang of bike robbers arrested from Odisha’s Bhubaneswar

    Gang of bike robbers arrested from Odisha’s Bhubaneswar

    Bhubaneswar: In a piece of good news for the denizens, a gang of bike looters have been arrested from Bhubaneswar on Sunday.

    According to reports, the arrested person is the mastermind and is the head of large gang of bike robbers. They used to loot bikes from busy areas and then cut these bikes, take out the parts and sell them off to avoid suspicion and to avoid getting caught.

    The Capital police station arrested as many as four bike robbers from the Forest Park (Biju Patnaik Park) area on Sunday as they were trying to loot bikes parked outside the park.

    The Capital police has arrested the gang mastermind M Sukant Reddy. The bikes parked in front of the park were targeted. The bikes were looted from the Biju Patnaik Park parking area and from the Unit-1 bike stand area in the early morning and late evening hours.

    They used to loot bikes, cut them and sell the bike parts. They used to sell bike parts all over Odisha. They used to target bike of which the locks would be easy to open. As many as 16 bikes and more than 40 chopped bikes have been seized by the police. Furthermore, cutting machines have also been recovered in the raid conducted by the police.

    The Capital police is further investigating into the matter. The police is questioning the four arrested persons to know ore details about their Modus Operandi. Details as to where the bike parts were sold is being investigated by the police.

    In February this year, the Nayapalli police had nabbed a gang of bike robbers in the Nayapalli area of Bhubaneswar, the capital city of Odisha.

    The Nayapalli police had seized as many as 11 looted bikes and arrested two robbers.

    They used to rob bikes from busy marketplaces in Bhubaneswar. After changing the bike number, chassis number and engine number, they sell it in the village.

    There are multiple cases against them in various police stations of Khurda and Bhubaneswar.

  • Zero-waste scheme in Odisha

    Zero-waste scheme in Odisha

    SwitchON Foundation, a Bengal-based non-profit that creates awareness about effective waste management, launched its zero-waste ward programme in Odisha on Friday.

    The initiative is supported by different regional-level NGOs.

    Giving a green signal to the project, Bhubaneswar mayor Sulochana Das said: “Effective waste segregation is crucial for the sustainable development of our city and I congratulate SwitchON Foundation for taking up this effective waste management programme at the ward level.”

    The primary idea behind the project is to sensitise people to effective waste management and increase recycling and reuse of waste generated at the ward and individual levels. The project aims at participatory planning with relevant stakeholders, behavioural change communication, training and workshops on dry and wet waste and institution building for sustainability.

    The waste management project was launched in Bhubaneswar, Cuttack and Puri. Odisha generates 1,935 tonnes of waste per day. Bhubaneswar generates 300 to 350 tonnes of solid waste per day.

    Speaking on the initiative, Biranchi Narayan Mahasupakar, chairman-public health (sanitation, electricity, water supply, drainage and environment) of ward 59, said: “As responsible citizens, we must work together to create a clean and healthy environment for ourselves and future generations. SwitchON Foundation is doing a commendable job by creating awareness about effective waste management practices.”

    Managing director of SwitchON Foundation, Vinay Jaju, said; “Let’s pledge to lessen the burden on our mother Earth by not dumping our wastes in landfills and reusing and recycling them into something useful.”

    The launch event was attended by ward officials, NGOs, sanitation workers and volunteer groups. The activities that have been planned for the wards are door-to-door awareness generation on source segregation of waste, raising awareness through street plays, training on dry waste and recycling, training on wet waste for composting at the household level, and maintaining cleanliness and forming a committee of volunteers for sustenance even after the completion of the project.

  • Odisha: Elderly man killed in elephant attack in Angul

    Odisha: Elderly man killed in elephant attack in Angul

    Angul: An elderly man from Maranda village of Bantala range of Angul district was killed in an elephant attack. As per sources, the deceased ‘Jhatak Behra’ was attacked by the elephant while he was going to defecate.

    After the death of the old man, slight tension was seen in the village. The forest department has reached the spot and trying to calm down the people.

    A herd of 20 elephants are reportedly roaming near the village, which has put the village people in a state of fear.

    In a similar incident earlier this month, two women from the Bantala village of Odisha’s Angul district were killed by a tusker while another woman was severely injured when they had gone to a nearby jungle to collect mangoes.

    It is pertinent to mention that 10 people have lost their lives in elephant attacks in the district in four months.

  • GST officials unearths over Rs 15 crore during raid in various places of Odisha

    GST officials unearths over Rs 15 crore during raid in various places of Odisha

    Jajpur: The Goods and Services Tax (GST) department raid unearths over Rs 15 crore during raid at 15 places in Odisha.

    According to reports, ten teams of the officials of the Directorate General of GST Intelligence (DGGI) conducted raids in 15 places including Jajpur, Chandikhol and Bhubaneswar yesterday. The officials conducted raid following allegations of evading crores of taxes in the mining operations by the mines owner under the supervision of Directorate General of GST Intelligence Debasish Sahoo.

    During the raid, the GST department have seized important documents, according to the sources.

    Yesterday, in Bhubaneswar, the GST officials conducted raid at HIG C5, informed the sources. They were examining different documents to know about the tax evasion.

    The central officers conducted surprise raid to check the balance sheets and other business documents of the concerned companies as part of the alleged tax evasion investigation.

    Earlier, GST officials had carried out multiple raids on the premises linked to a BJD leader in Nayagarh district on April 3. And on March 29, they had also raided a reputed private coaching centre in Bhubaneswar. On March 3, the department also conducted simultaneous raids at four places in Cuttack city of Odisha.