Jagdev -"the conqueror"

Bhubaneswar, Oct 20: The Odisha High Court on Monday rejected the anticipatory bail plea of former government chief whip and BJD’s Banki MLA Pravat Tripathy over his alleged complicity in the multi-thousand crore chit fund scam being inquired by Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in the state. BJD's Banki MLA Pravat Tripathy The decision of High Court is a major setback for Tripathy and the ruling BJD as well. The Court had kept its verdict reserved after completing hearing on the anticipatory bail plea of Tripathy on October 16. It had also extended the interim relief granted to him over the period from arrest by CBI in chit fund link. Tripathy had moved the High Court after CBI raided his house and interrogated in connection with the chit fund scam. He had moved the High Court on September 15 seeking anticipatory bail apprehending that the investigating agency may arrest him anytime. “I respect the verdict of High Court. I was cooperating the CBI inqu

Rourkela, Oct 2: The Swachh Bharat campaign that has been launched Nationwide to focus on mass awareness and lasting behavioural change, entered a decisive phase with taking of the ‘Swachh Bharat’ pledge on the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti. It is worth mentioning here that the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi has given a clarion call to make Mahatma Gandhi’s dream of a neat and clean Nation come true. As a part of this Mission, C S Verma, Chairman, SAIL administered the pledge to the SAIL collective through a video conference today. A ‘Swachh SAIL, Sundar SAIL’ campaign has also been launched to mark the occasion. In the morning G S Prasad, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) led a cleanliness drive along with other senior officers of RSP and office bearers of Rourkela Chamber of Commerce at the Banei gate chowk. A broom in hand as the CEO swept the street, it struck a note of solidarity with the nationwide campaign and spread the message o

Bhubaneswar, Sept 29: Commissionerate Police today arrested a 30-year-old man for duping a Sundarpada resident of Rs 1.09 lakh impersonating himself as a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) officer. Accused Balaram Das The victim has been identified as Ashis Patra (25). According to Nayapalli police, Balaram Das, the accused hails from Bhadrak district, impersonating him as an inspector of CRPF had taken Rs 1.09 lakhs from Patra promising him to provide home appliances like fridge, television, washing machine and others from a defence canteen in Vishakhapatnam at 50 per cent less than the actual rate of these appliances. The accused had taken the amount from Patra in August 22. But later the accused had failed to return the received amount of the victim after his repeated calls. Police said the victim reported the matter to police today after he failed to receive the given amount from the accused. Acting on the complaint, a case under sections 170 (person

Rourkela, Sept 29: “Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP)’s strength is its people and they will achieve the desired goals,” observed the Panel of Judges for the Prime Minister’s Trophy for the Best Integrated Steel Plant of the country 2013-14 at the closing meeting at Mandira Dam on Sunday. The panel comprised Dr J N Choubey, former Additional Chief Secretary, Govt. of Karnataka, Dr B N Singh, former-CMD, RINL, K A P Singh, former MD, BSL, Dr T Mukherjee, former Deputy MD, Tata Steel, Prof P K Sen, IIT, Kharagpur, Dr Sanak  Mishra, former MD, RSP, J K Tandon, former CEO,  Essar Steel, K K Mehrotra, former CMD, MECON, Prof N K Chadha, HOD, Psychology, Delhi University and O P Lal, former Minister and Trade Union Leader. G S Prasad, CEO, RSP, Executive Directors, General Managers and several departmental HODs attended the meeting. Each member on the Panel was highly appreciative of the efforts taken by RSP for setting on the trajectory which will take it to the elite group of S

Ajit Kumar Parida Bhubaneswar, Sept 29: The BJP backed Akhila Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) won the president’s post in the students’ union elections of the University Law College (ULC) Bhubaneswar that held today. ABVP presidential candidate Ajit Kumar Parida defeated Biju Chhatra Janata Dal (BCJD) candidate Rakesh Dash by a lesser margin of nine votes, said college authority sources. Besides, BCJD candidate Abhilash Mohanty was declared general secretary uncontested.

Bhubaneswar, Sept 2: Hundreds of Data Entry Operators today staged demonstration in front of the residence of the Odisha’s revenue minister Bijayashree Routray here demanding permanent status in their job and increment in salary package. The agitators shouted anti-government slogans calling for immediate fulfilment of their demands. The data entry operators were appointed on contractual basis in 2006 at 306 Tehsil offices across the state. “Initially we were appointed for preparing land records but later we were engaged in for digitization of land records. Besides we have been attached to different services in various state government initiatives including e-Governance and e-District project. But the government has been ignoring us in granting a permanent status to our jobs,” alleged president of Odisha State Tahasil Data Entry Operators Association, Nrusingha Charan Nayak. As many as 600 data entry operators were working in 317 tehsils across the state. The association

Bhubaneswar, Sept 2: A team of Tokyo based Japanese’s Company delegates headed by Takeaki Yamamoto, Chairman Japan Communication today visited Odisha Khadi and Village Industries Board and discussed with Board’s President Tejeswar Parida on prospects of village industries in Odisha in Japan Model cottage industries. Board’s President Parida urged the Japanese delegates to extend cooperation for entrepreneurship and infrastructure development and establishment of train centres. During the discussion it was decided to explore the possibilities Odisha and Japan collaboration to develop new type of village industries and entrepreneurship activities in remote rural and tribal areas of Odisha. The team of delegates in memory of their visit to the State’s Old Gandhian Statutory Board planted sapling in the board premises. Later they visited the departmental sales depot with the board president and purchased some special kind of Khadi clothes and village industries items.

Rourkela, Aug 26: National Institute of Technology (NIT), Rourkela students has brought laurels in Team Roadrunner competition, a national level event- ‘SUPRA SAEINDIA Student Formula-2014’ organised at Madras Motor Sports Club in Chennai, informed RK Sinha, Secretary Public Relation of the institute today. Team Roadrunner, a team of 25 students from various disciplines of engineering of the NIT, Rourkela, participating in the national level event had succeeded in achieving 2nd position among 100 teams across the country in engineering design category for which it bagged a cash prize of Rs 20,000 awarded by ANSYS INDIA along with a trophy. “Our students fabricated a formula style racing car employing a Yamaha R6 600 cc engine imported from the USA. The entire assembly and manufacturing of the 360kg vehicle was done in the workshop of the institute,” said Sinha. The SUPRA SAEINDIA is a competition which presents the under graduate and post graduate engineering students th

Bhubaneswar, Aug 25: Special Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) court of CBI this evening allowed the CBI officials to take Artha Tatwa (AT) Group chief Pradip Sethy and his accountant Shrikrushna Padhi on 10 days remand to interrogate them on their role in the multi-crore chit fund scam case in Odisha. AT Group chief Pradip Sethy The duo was again produced before the court, following the court decision postponding August 23 hearing to, today. The Judge of court gave the judgement after hearing a fresh case filed by the CBI studying the received files, during the course of investigation, from the state police and the evidence it had collected during the recent raids on the company’s establishments and the residences of AT group officials. Kali Charan Mishra, counsel of CBI said after hearing the fresh case of CBI that they handed over to the magistrate, passing an order, allowed the central agency to take the duo on remand for a period of 10-days. “We got 10-days re

Rourkela, Aug 25: In a function organized at HRD Centre today the ‘Handbook for ICS Agreements -2014-15’ of Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) was released by G S Prasad, CEO. Ashwani Kumar, ED (Works), V Sankarnarayanan, GM Incharge (MS) and DK Mishra, DGM (BE) graced the dais along with the CEO. Executive Directors, General Managers as well HODs of various departments had attended the function. In his address the RSP CEO congratulated the Business Excellence collective for the painstaking efforts made by it in making the ICS Agreement book 2014-15 a reality. He urged the participating Customer and Supplier departments to excel in their performance as required by the ICS model. He also expressed his desire that the Engineering and project consulting organizations involved in expansion of RSP to be included in ICS Model of RSP as suppliers so as to bridge the gap between the delivery by them and the expectation of RSP from them. On the occasion, Prasad released the ‘Handbook

Rourkela, Aug 20: Sadbhavana Diwas was observed at Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) here today.   On this occasion, a pledge was taken in Odia, Hindi and English by Plant employees that they will work for the emotional oneness and harmony of all the people of India regardless of caste, creed, region, religion or language. They further pledged that they shall resolve all differences among themselves through dialogue and constitutional means without resorting to violence. In a pledge taking ceremony held at Chief Executive Officer’s Conference Hall, GS Prasad, CEO, RSP administered the pledge in Odia to senior officers and employees. The pledge in English and Hindi were administered by Bijit Mohapatra, GM (Tech) and SK Mehrotra, AGM, CEO Secretariat. Similar ceremonies were also organized by the Executive Directors in their respective areas and also at various units of the steel plant in which many senior officers and employees participated. It is to be noted that, 20th

Bhubaneswar, Aug 14: Commissionerate Police today arrested a bike lifter from Saheed Nagar area here and recovered nine motorcycles looted by him from different locations in the city. Accused Satya Paikaray with stolen bikes The looter was identified as 22-year-old Satya Paikaray of Sarana area under Tangi police limits in Khordha district. He was staying at Saheed Nagar area in the city during last few months. According to Saheed Nagar police station IIC Deepak Mishra, they nabbed Paikaray while investigating a motorcycle theft case. On the basis of a complaint lodged by a youth Pabitra Swain of Saheed Nagar yesterday about his bike loot, the police staff swung into action and recovered the looted bike along with other eight bikes lifted by the accused, he added. The accused, having several cases pending against him in various police stations, was forwarded to a local Court here today. The police have started further investigation into the matter to unearth the lin

Rourkela, Aug 14: Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP), a unit of the Maharatna Company SAIL, has bagged a host of National level awards. Three employees of the Steel plant have been selected to receive the prestigious Prime Minister’s Shram Awards. Upendra Maharana, SOST, Tonnage Oxygen Plant-II has bagged the award in Shram Vir Category. He will be receiving a cash award of Rs. 60,000 and a ‘Sanad’. Manoj Kumar Pradhan, Sr. Technician, ERWPP has bagged the Shram Shree award while Mrs Rajalaxmi Acharya, Senior Instructor, HRD Centre has got the Shram Devi award. Each one of them will be receiving a cash award of Rs. 40,000 and a ‘Sanad.’ It is worth mentioning here that RSP is the only SAIL unit figuring in the list of 40 Prime Minister's Shram Awardees for 2013.  Mrs Acharya is the only lady employee from a Public Sector to receive the Shram Devi award. Another important achievement is 35 of RSP’s employees being chosen to receive the prestigious Vishwakarma Rashtriya Purask

Rourkela, Aug 11: The team from Jhirpani village bagged the Winners’ Trophy in the Samvardhan Rural Football Tournament organized by Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP). In a toughly contested final held at Ispat Stadium here yesterday, Jhirpani team from Bisra block defeated the team from Sunmarin village of Lathikata block 3-1 to win the tournament. Winners receiving trophy and certificates from guests Mrs Manjari Prasad, president of Deepika Mahila Sanghati (DMS) graced the concluding function as the Chief Guest. Congratulating the winners and the runners-up team Mrs Prasad, along with Mrs Sharmistha Das, Mrs Jyotsna Acharya and Mrs Sabiata Kumar, all vice presidents of DMS as well as S Pradhan, GM (F&A) and PK Pradhan, GM (TA& CSR) awarded the trophies and certificates to them. The champion Jhirpani team was presented with a cash award of Rs 10,000 along with a trophy, while the runners-up Sunmarin team was presented with a cash award of Rs 8,000 along with a trophy.

Rourkela, Aug 11: Hockey Legend, Olympian and Arjuna Awardee, Ashok Kumar who had arrived the Steel City recently on a weeklong visit having kindly accepted the invitation extended to him for meeting the cadets of the SAIL Hockey Academy. RSP CEO GS Prasad meeting Hockey Legend Ashok Kumar He has been interacting with the budding hockey players and providing them tips in the areas of playing tactical, power and attacking hockey. GS Prasad, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) met the Hockey legend in his office on August 7 this month. During the meeting, the CEO said, “It is a matter of pride to interact with national icons.”  Later, while discussing the prospects of providing a further impetus to hockey in the region, Prasad added that the maestro’s hands-on guidance would greatly benefit the budding hockey stars playing for the academy. Notably, Ashok Kumar is the son of the Greatest Hockey Player the world has ever seen, Major Dhyan Chan

Bhubaneswar, Aug 7: The CBI team today conducted raids on different offices of Green India Finance (GIF), a chit fund company. Nine teams of CBI conducted simultaneous raids at several places in Bhubaneswar and Berhampur branch offices of GIF and the residences of company directors Pradeep Singh at Ayodhya Nagar and Suneel Panda at Ashok Nagar in Berhampur city, sources said. The company had allegedly duped several gullible investors of crores of rupees through fixed deposit, recurring deposit (RD), in providing house and land loans and different products under different schemes created by it, sources added. Sources stated that the CBI has found several incriminating documents from the offices and houses of the directors of the company during sudden raids which would be help for them during investigation. 60 investors of Berhampur area had lodged a complaint with the Berhampur Town police station against the chit-fund company on August 4, 2013 acting on which the CBI

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Government has planned to establish an ultra-modern filigree hub in Cuttack under the scheme Assistance to States for Development of Export Infrastructure and Allied Activities (ASIDE). For this project, the state government has directed the district administration of Cuttack to provide a suitable land for this purpose after a letter served to the latter by the Textiles and Handlooms department recently. After getting the required land from the district administration, the infrastructural development and construction work of the filigree will be expedited, said Textiles and Handlooms Minister Snehangini Chhuria in the State Assembly here today. Replying to a question, the Minister said the State Government is committed to the all-round development of the artists who are famous for their handicrafts and silver filigree crafts in state and outside of it. So to boost the filigree craft work of the artisans, the government has planned such project in Cutt

Baidya Binayak Mishra (Doctor of Lord Jagannath) Bhubaneswar, June 21: When I and my friend were returning from Gobardhan Peetha in Puri, on the way my friend stopped his bike and showed me an ancient building with gothic designed gateway informing that the building was the house of a servitor of Sri Mandira. I was not surprised with the sudden invention of my friend as I know some of servitors of Lord Jagannath. When he said that the servitor is the doctor (Baidya) of three deities (Lord Jagannath, Lord Balabhadra and Devi Subhadra), I get amused and made up my mind to meet the doctor. I knocked at the door to know how he performs his duty as doctor and what type of medicines he prepares for the deities and on which day. An old woman opened the door and invited us to the drawing room. After a few minutes wait, an old man came and inquired about our visit. During the discussion I got to know that he was Baidya Binayak Mishra, grandson of noted Baidyaratna Maguni Brahma o