Jagdev -"the conqueror"

Bhubaneswar: A 24-year-old woman was killed and three passenger including driver were seriously injured following a road accident at Baramunda over-bridge here on Sunday. The deceased was identified as Deba kalyani Tripathy who hails from Puri and was travelling in her family car (Registration no- OR02K1010) for some personal work in the city, police sources said. The car met an accident while the driver trying to overtake a motor vehicle lost control and collided with divider of the Baramunda over-bridge. During its journey from Khandagiri to CRPF, the car turned twice after it collided with the bridge, sources said. Tripathy died at the spot while the other passengers including the driver in a critical condition rushed to Capital hospital here and later referred to a private hospital after their health condition deteriorated.

Victim Anjali Pradhan Bhubaneswar: In yet another case of women harassment in the state, a woman in the Mahanga area of Cuttack district, just managed to escape from the clutches of hooligans who tried to set her on fire. Like the case of the Tikiri lady teacher, the woman had also approached several police officials of her district to help her out but gone unheeded. She made rounds of the temples of justice, but all her efforts went in vain. The hooligans of the woman’s village have been threatening her of life if she returns home again. According to reports, the victim, Anjali Pradhan is a single woman of Govindpur under the Mahanga police limits in Cuttack district. She alleged that a group of people of her village have been harassing her ever since she lodged a case against her neighbour Sarat Pradhan and his family members at the local civil court on a land dispute case in 2009. Court had given its order in favour of Anjali and had directed the defendants to app

Bhubaneswar: The Civil Supplies Department officials have seized 700 litres of kerosene, meant for the Public Distribution System (PDS), from two persons in the city on Friday. The accused are identified as Sarbeswar Patnaik and Purna Chandra Sahu of unit-4 market where they were running the illegal sale of kerosene in their cycle store. According to sources, to put a tap on the malpractices in the unit-4 area, the Civil Supplies Department officials have geared them up to conduct raids in all the shops. The team seized 700 litres of kerosene, meant for public distribution and detained the duo Patnaik and Sahu for selling in open market. Interrogation in to the incident is going on, said the official sources.

Bhubaneswar: In order to sensitize auto drivers and public towards protecting girl child and stopping women violence, the city-based voluntary organization named centre for child and women development (CCWD), action aid group, Commissionerate Police, Beti Zindabad and Maa Sikhar Chandi auto owners association jointly organised an awareness drive ‘sensitize auto-drivers to eliminate violence against women and girls’ at Saileshree Vihar here on Sunday. Heading the meeting, Dr Rajendra Prasad Sharma, twin city Commissioner of Police focused on massive scale awareness which is highly essential to end the violence against women and girls. According to survey, nearly 60 per cent women violence occurs in domestic work, 55 per cent in unorganised sector and 25 per cent in working place. Similarly around 6 out of 10 girls abused every day in the cities and women’s are molested which is a serious issue. The illusion towards girls is not only limited within illiterate communities of rural

Bhubaneswar: For traffic violators who make an excuse of not having ready cash to pay the fine will be made compulsory as the Commissionerate Police (CP) is planning to come out with an alternative of collecting fine through credit cards from them. For this purpose, the CP seek help of a Hyderabad-based private company to get start-up with the gadget, a personal digital assistant (PDA) machine that can issue e-challans and collect fine through credit cards. "With the start of the new gadget, it will reduce time and gathering of traffic violator during checking. The gadget can generate challans immediately which will put a stop on issuing challan by writing down on a receipt book," said Twin City Commissioner of Police Dr Rajendra Prasad Sharma. The gadget will be launched in Bhubaneswar only, he said. The gadget with wireless access to traffic police central server would be capable of generating a spot challan in the name of an offender, detailing offences. Viol

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Hydro Power Corporation Ltd. (OHPCL) contributed one crore rupees towards the Chief Minister’s Relief Fund (CMRF) to help the people affected by the recent Cyclone “Phailin” followed by flood. The Cheque was handed over to the Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Tuesday by Sahadev Khatua, MD, OHPCL and senior officials of the company at the State Secretariat here in the presence of Arun Kumar Sahoo, Minister of Energy and PK Jena, Commisioner-cum-Secretary, Department of Energy. In addition to this, to further provide a helping hand, OHPCL have also sent four teams consisting of skilled workmen from BHEP, Balimela, UKHEP, Bariniput, UIHEP, Mukhiguda and RHEP, Rengali to the heavily affected Ganjam District for electricity restoration work who are working there since October 15.

Bhubaneswar: City-based non-banking financial company Flourish India director Aditya Kumar Bisoi was arrested by the Economic Offence Wing (EOW) of the State Crime Branch here on Monday night for allegedly duping investors across the state. Crime Branch DIG Rajesh Kumar informed that the EOW personnel arrested Bisoi on the basis of several complaints lodged by the investors against the company at Barapali police station of Bargarh district. He would be produced before a local court in Barapali on Tuesday, the DIG added. Kumar further said the company duped investors more than Rs 100 crore in the State. The EOW is investigating about the collection and transaction of money and other details of their investments, he added. The company had been allegedly collecting money illegally through its 132 branches across the State during last eight years, said the sources. Earlier, the probing agency had arrested two officials of the company CMD Ballav Prasad Nayak and former CMD

Bhubaneswar: US national William Michel Hurtubise (27) whose bail plea was rejected on September 27 this year by a local court here got a sigh of relief on Monday after the Sessions Court granted conditional bail on a surety deposit of Rs 50,000 after a month of his arrest. William was arrested on September 18 by the commissionerate police on the charge of possessing illegal ammunition of eight live bullets in his luggage during a routine check at the Biju Patnaik Airport here. William was released on conditional bail on Monday evening from Jharpada Special Jail here. However, he would not be able to leave the country or the state till he is acquitted by the court or found not guilty during investigation by the Commissionerate Police. “The Session court hearing the bail application of William granted him conditional bail on Rs 50,000 surety deposit. The court directed him to surrender his pass port and Visa with the sub divisional judicial magistrate (SDJM) court here. T

Bhubaneswar: Paying respect to policemen who died in line of duty, the Commissionerate Police (Bhubaneswar-Cuttack) observed 54th Police Commemoration Day at Reserve Police ground here on Monday. The top most officials of the Commissionerate were present in the ceremony. The day is observed in honour of 10 CRPF jawans who died in India-China war in 1959. Additional Police Commissioner Dr Santosh Bala who was the chief guest of the ceremony said that October 21 is observed as police martyr’s day to commemorate and pay tribute to those dedicated brave souls who made sacrifices in laying down their lives in the service of the nation. Dr Bala recollecting the history said, “We commemorate the day for those brave jawans who gave life to guarantee our security.” Unfortunately six brave jawans lost their lives in Odisha but this number is less than previous year and step need to be taken to decrease this number, she added.  The name of the deceased police personnel was read

Bhubaneswar: Talk Bhubaneswar, a city-based voluntary organization and ‘Ek Chesta’ another NGO jointly took an initiative on Sunday to distribute relief material and carried out sanitation work in ward number-7 in Madhuban in Baripada as severe damage occurred after Phailin and flood hit these areas. Eight members of Talk Bhubaneswar team led by Prateek and Vinay Wilson Tiria went to the affected place along with relief material of 1500 clothes for men, women and children. They also distributed 100kg flattened rice (chuda), biscuits and water pouch to the ward people. All relief material was collected before the occasion of ‘Joy of Giving Week’, a donation week that held in between October 2 to October 8 from different colleges and individuals, informed Prateek. “Except the relief work after Phailin, our team had done restoration work of whole Saheed Nagar Durgapuja Mandap here within five hours by 10 member team,” added Prateek.

Bhubaneswar: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued notice to Chief Secretary (CS) over the inaction of the State administration in ensuring basic human rights and not following the applicable laws so far while executing Reba-Kapali Sanskar Yojana (RKSY) in Bhadrak district and sought the report within four weeks. The NHRC passed this order while acting on a petition filed by two freedom fighters namely Bhadrak District Freedom Fighters’ Association president Ramahari Goswami and secretary Shyam Sunder Behera. They have raised the basic human rights issue involved in the RKSY project since it has been executed without following the provisions of Land Acquisition Act and the Orissa Rehabilitation and Resettlement Policy. Besides lakhs of trees are being cut down and uprooted by the executing agencies flouting the environmental laws. Protesting the violations Radhakanta Tripathy, a social activist has been continuing his non-violent protest against the viol

Bhubaneswar: X-SEED, the Entrepreneurship Cell of Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar (XIMB), hosted its first annual National Entrepreneurship Summit- ‘Ignite 2013’ on Sunday here. The summit witnessed enthusiastic participation from students of XIMB and other local Institutes as well as Local entrepreneurs. On the occasion Prof. Rajeev Roy, an Associate Professor of Indian Institute Management (IIM), Raipur talked about Country’s need for entrepreneurs and the numerous opportunities that are about to come in students’ way in the next two decades. “We are always hearing stories of entrepreneurs with no formal education who have made it big in the world”, Roy said adding one should acquire the basics of business education and skills to think and analyse situations in a business context better. Ms. Sanghamitra Jena, Founder of Eastern Treasure India Tours and a city-based entrepreneur spoke about confidence and idea are the keys for one in making him/her as a good

Bhubaneswar: The Commissionerate Police on Sunday arrested a 34-year-old man on the charge of duping job aspirants in the state. The accused was identified as Subash Parida of Jamapada under Patkura police station in Kendrapada district now staying in Saheed Nagar, forwarded to court today. Parida working as a supervisor in a private mobile tower company in Saheed Nagar has duped crores of rupees from several job aspirants promising them to provide job in a shipping company. Parida has duped nearly 100 job aspirants including matriculate and engineers of Kendrapada, Cuttack and Khurda districts and duped with Rs 1.2 crore from them, collecting money ranging from Rs 50,000 to Rs 2 lakh. One Bhakta Batsala Swain of Kendrapada on Sunday lodged a complaint at Nayapalli police station alleging that Parida duped Rs 6.2 lakh from him promising him to give a better salaried job in a private company. Acting on Swain’s complaint the police arrested Parida from Saheed Nagar

Bhubaneswar: Activists of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) State unit on Wednesday took out an awareness rally here to sensitize people about the rising atrocities against women in the State and their safety to mark the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi and Lal Bahadur Shastri. Holding banner with the theme ‘True Swaraj is dignity for women- Stop violence against women’ and placards, people from different walks of life participated in the rally which originated from Vani Vihar square and reached Master Canteen square. The activists demanded strict implementation of laws related to check the atrocities against women. “Mahatma Gandhi and Lal Bahadur Shastri were always fighting to eliminate discrimination against women in the country. They had dreamt a lot about the welfare of women. But unfortunately, our country so also our State is witnessing atrocities against women every day.  The rape and murder of a Dalit girl in Pipili and a paramedical student in Delhi last year narrate the rea

Bhubaneswar: Gandhi Jayanti, the birth anniversary of the Father of the Nation Mahatma Gandhi, was celebrated at Rourkela on Wednesday amidst recitation of bhajans, rendition of the mantra of ‘Sarbadharma Samanwaya’ and reminiscence of the life of the Mahatma. A grand function was organized by the district administration, Rourkela and Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) at Civic Centre in Rourkela to mark the occasion. Many distinguished persons offered floral tributes to the statue of Gandhiji and paid their obeisance. They included GS Prasad, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), RSP, RN Mishra, ADM, Rourkela, RK Nehru, ED (MM), MK Das, ED (Projects), SK Acharya, ED (Projects), V Sankaranarayanan, GM in charge (Works), Dr SK Mishra, Director-in-charge (M&HS) and many other senior officers of RSP, State Government officials and other eminent citizens of the steel city. The celebration began with the mellifluous rendering of Mahatma Gandhi’s favourite prayer, ‘Baishnaba Janato….’ by

Bhubaneswar: The State units of various unions here held a huge rally and demonstration on Wednesday acting on the call of the central trade unions (CTU),  protesting the Group of Ministers’ (GoM) appeal for taking more time to discuss and settle of 10-point charter of demands of all central trade unions in the country. Protestors of BMS, INTUC, AITUC, HMS, CITU, AIUTUC and AICCTU holding party flags and banners participated in the rally in huge number. They also submitted memorandum to the Governor SC Jamir regarding the issue. Outcome on the success of the two-day strike by all central trade unions on February 20 and 21, 2013, the Prime Minister constituted a Group of Ministers (GoM) to discuss and settle the 10-point charter of demands jointly formulated by all the central trade unions in the country. The first meeting between the central unions and the GoM was held on May 22, 2013 where the unions had demanded concrete response to their issues like minimum wage not l

Bhubaneswar: Dissatisfied over the police investigation into the murder of M Pharma student Manmohan Pradhan, who was killed by a group of goons during a brawl near Chintamanishwar temple on August 19 last month, the parents of the deceased along with the State unit of All India Democratic Youth Organisation and Student-Youth Action Committee (SYAC) of Delanga of Puri district, on Tuesday took out a protest rally and demanded immediate shifting of the case to CBI and Rs 50 lakh compensation to the deceased student’s family members. Holding Banner and placards, hundreds of supporters took out the rally from Master Canteen square to lower PMG demanding justice for the deceased family. The protestors too demanded a Government job to one of the deceased family since he was the only son of their family. “Miscreants killed my son brutally. Even though a month has already elapsed into the murder, the Commissionerate police are yet to nab the main accused. How do we trust on the pol

Twin city Commissioner Dr Rajendra Prasad Sharma Bhubaneswar: Contrary to the claim of the son and husband of the murdered Bachan Sudha Pattanayak that more than one person was involved in killing her, Twin city Commissioner of Police Dr Rajendra Prasad Sharma on Tuesday clarified that the arrested security guard Dipti Ranjan Patnaik was the only accused in committing the offence. Basing on the psychoanalysis report which was conducted on the accused last week to know whether more than one person was involved in the crime, the Commissioner said “The forensic psychoanalysis assessment report revealed that Dipti was the only offender in the crime. No accomplice of him is involved in killing Bachan Sudha Pattanayak.” Notably, the report was submitted to the Commissioner late on Monday night by expert Dr Asha Srivastav, a clinical psychologist of the Central Forensic Science Laboratory in New Delhi who conducted the analysis on Dipti to examine the mental status of the accu

Bhubaneswar: A Sexagenarian Gopinath Pradhan of Belapada village under Kanas police limit in Puri district while moving on Lower PMG here met the Jagdev- “the Conqueror” bureau and pleaded me for help after he was refused by an auto-rickshaw to locate an address to him. With a sorrowful heart Pradhan approached me with an old newspaper to express his disheartened statement. When asked about the matter, he said to locate an address of his elder son Sunil Pradhan (29) who had gone missing since 2010 that had appeared in an Odia daily. He showed me the paper where a youth looks like his son appeared in the photo with some address written in it. Noting all of his conversation which stated that Pradhan had asked the same question to many auto-drivers, but he could not get any satisfied answer from them. Finally he broke down into tears and sat on the road culvert helplessly. When I asked him about his problem, the well-dressed old man said, “I’m a helpless man searching for m

Dipti Ranjan Patnaik Bhubaneswar: After taking security guard Dipti Ranjan Patnaik on five-day police remand from Jharpada Jail to conduct various test on him following interrogations about the heinous crime in connection with the broad day-light murder of city-based businessman’s wife Bachansudha Pattanayak on September 11 in the city, the Commissionerate Police conducted psychoanalysis test on him on Thursday. The test was conducted by an expert Dr Asha Shrivastav, a clinical psychologist of the Central Forensic Science Laboratory in New Delhi and is also working for the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), to examine the mental status of the accused. During the marathon interrogation held at the Commissionerate Police headquarters here, the security guard was asked on crime related questions in order to find possible involvement of more persons in the related crime. He was quizzed by the expert in an isolated room. The whole interrogation process took around seven h

Bhubaneswar: The rising incidents of crime figures have deteriorated law and order control in the twin cities Bhubaneswar-Cuttack because of acute shortage of skilled sub-inspectors (SIs), who investigate series of cases in police stations. Nearly 200 more posts of SIs needs to be filled up to carry out many tasks like investigation, crime prevention, day and night patrolling, Traffic control, documentation and many more in the twin city, informed a senior officer, requesting anonymity. In addition to these, SIs are also engaged in VIP duty, road blocking, passport verification cells, Mahila and Sishu desks and senior citizen security cells. He said though there are crunch of staff in his police station, examining a case followed by investigation is a hell of task for him that results to pending of many cases. Sometimes they have to work for traffic duty for eight hours instead of spending time for crime prevention in their police station jurisdiction, he added. &

President Pranab Mukherjee addressing at second Convocation of IIT-Bhubaneswar Bhubaneswar: President Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday called for an educational revolution while regretting that India does not yet figure in the list of the countries with the best international educational institutions. “As per the international ranking there is not a single Indian university, including the IITs, amongst the top 200 universities in the world,” the President said while gracing the second convocation ceremony of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bhubaneswar here. However, he affirmed that India had a vision to be in the league of leading nations and said, “This is possible only if we have highly capable engineers, scientists, doctors, academicians and other intellectuals.” “Academic regulation must be streamlined to create a more flexible, transparent and student friendly educational system,” Mukherjee said. Stating that a world class higher educatio