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Bhubaneswar, Dec 19: After more than a month of thorough investigation, the commissionerate police on Saturday cracked the sensational murder case of a doctor couple in Saileshree Vihar under Chandrasekharpur police limits by arresting three accused persons involved in the brutal crime. The police have seized four mobile phones, six golden bangles, Rs 2100 and a chappad from the accused possession. The accused were identified as Kishore Chandra Behera (44) alias Timpa of Nehrunagar in Ganjam district, Md Kamal Khan alias Muna (22)and his wife Phulsari Behera alias Nini(36), both of Aul in Kendrapara district. The mastermind Tikina Behera (30) and Jaban Naik, both hails from Sujeli in Kandhamal district are still at large. Briefing the gruesome murder to newsmen at commissionerate headquarters office here today, the twin city Commissioner of Police (CP) Dr RP Sharma said, “Tikina involving other four had made a demo of the whole incident on November 13, crime planned acc

Rourkela, Dec 14: Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP), a unit of the Maharatna Company-SAIL has bagged the first prize in “ National Energy Conservation Award 2015 ” in Integrated Steel Plant sector for the fiscal 2014-15. The award was presented on the National Energy Conservation Day by the Ministry of Power, Government of India, in a glittering function held at Vigyan Bhawan of New Delhi on December 14. The function was presided over by Piyush Goyal, Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Power, Coal and Non Renewable energy. On behalf of RSP, the award was received by P Sahoo, GM (Electrical) and P K Baisakhiya, DGM (EMD). It is worth mentioning here that in its endeavour to conserve energy, RSP has taken a number of initiatives recently. As a result, the overall specific energy consumption in the plant has come down from 6.97 Giga Calorie per tonne of crude steel in 2009-10 to 6.57 Giga Calorie per tonne of crude steel in 2014-15. Notably, during the said year the spec

Rourkela, Dec 5: S S Mohanty, Director (Technical) SAIL arrived on a two day visit to Rourkela Steel Plant RSP today. On his today’s visit to plant, he held a discussion with M K Das, ED (Projects), S K Acharya, ED (Projects), Ashwini Kumar, ED (Works) at CEO’s office regarding the production, productivity, future plans and other important aspects of functioning at RSP. Thereafter, accompanied with SK Acharya and Ashwini Kumar, Mohanty visited Blast Furnace-V. He also held a meeting with the senior officers of the Plant. Later, he visited the Slab yard, Finishing Line of New plate Mill and the site of the New Hot Strip Mill. In the afternoon, Mohanty interacted with the officers of Finance and Marketing at CEO’s Conference Hall. Later in the evening, Mohanty chaired a communication exercise on ‘Turnaround Strategy of SAIL’ at Gopabandhu Auditorium that was attended by about 500 employees from various departments of the Plant.  

Rourkela, Dec 4: Centre for Technology Innovation and Industry Relations (TIIR) of NIT Rourkela is going to organize an Industry-Institute-Interface interactive session on 'Technology for Business Advantage: Collaboration between NITR & Industry' on January 7 at Prana Krushna Parija Auditorium (PPA) of the institute Campus. NIT Rourkela This event will be an ideal platform to discuss issues of mutual interest pertaining to technology & innovation beneficial for industry and its welfare. NIT Rourkela is putting its best foot forward to bridge the skill gaps that exist in the industry by offering it technology expertise. NIT Rourkela, with its intellectual capital, the human resource, the library, the laboratories and equipment, and its tradition of scholarship, is an ocean of knowledge that is waiting to be tapped by the industry for creation of wealth and welfare of humanity.  The interface between the institute and the industry, the interface between

Bhubaneswar, Dec 4: With an objective to provide all round platforms to its real-estate members as well as other stakeholders by facilitating their overall growth, the Odisha Chapter of Conference of Real Estate Developers Association of India (CREDAI) is going to organize Odisha’s much hyped PROPERTY EXPO at Janata Maidan here from January 21. The mega event will continue till January 24. Briefing the newsmen here today, Dillip Patra, President of CREDAI Odisha reiterates the importance as well as objective of CREDAI and its Odisha Chapter. On this years’ Expo plan, D S Tripathy, CREDAI Odisha National Member, CREDAI Governing Council Body said, “At least 120 stalls in two air-conditioned hangers with state-of-the art facilities will be installed at the event place. USP of this year’s Expo is Maximum Visibility through Media Publicity as well as Buzz through Social Media and on-ground innovations. Apart from this, there are also other attractions like celebrity presence

Rourkela, Nov 30: In order to provide power supply for the erection, commissioning and constant uninterrupted operation of the massive expansion projects of Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP), a number of electrical installations have been set up. The timely power supply from the three Load Block Sub-Stations namely LBSS-IV, LBSS-V and LBSS-VI to the New Coke Ovens battery– 6 Complex, New Blast Furnace– V, Ore Bedding and Blending Plant Phase-III and the New Sinter Complex, enabled the commissioning, stabilization and operations of these Units. Recently all the erection jobs and automation commissioning including Auto Bus Transfer and complete communication of all feeders to centralized Power Distribution SCADA were completed by the collective efforts of the Projects and Power Distribution departments of RSP. On 28th November, LBSS-IV 33/6.6 KV Sub-Station was inaugurated by AK Bihari, GM (Projects). This Sub-Station provides power to the New Coke Oven– 6 Complex including New

Bhubaneswar, Nov 29: Fighting against the negligence shown by the local corporator in their locality, Tuighoot slum children here under ward number-10 of Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation today addressed various problems they faced in their locality by pasting posters in wall magazine installed on a board. As many as 30 child club members put their problems like need for safe drinking water, electricity, drainage system, playground, wells and others basic needs in their locality. Through their posters, they have urged the BMC Mayor to look into their matter with immediate effect. “BMC should look to the basic needs of the slum children which will greatly influence the children's development,” said a member of the child media club Tuighoot. The programme was organized by city based voluntary organization named Center for Child and Women Development with the help of National foundation for India involving the members of child media club Tuighoot.

Rourkela, Nov 28: A Health check-up programme was organized for the contract labour working in Township area of Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) at the Town Engineering Conference Hall, recently.    141 contract labourers were covered in the programme where they were examined for different parameters such as height, weight, Body Mass Index (BMI), vision test, blood pressure, random blood sugar, blood grouping, Hepatitis-B and general check up like hearing and pulse rate etc. The identified patients were also provided medicines free of cost. The programme was jointly organized by Personnel-Contract Labour Cell with the help of Ispat General Hospital (IGH), ESI Model Hospital & ESIC Dispensary. Doctors and technicians from ESI Corporation & IGH conducted the tests. It is noteworthy that the health check up programme for contract labour started in April 2013. Till date, 27 camps have been held, benefiting 6497 persons and in the current calendar year 1580 contract labou

Rourkela, Nov 23: The Annual Science Exhibition of Ispat Vidyamandir in Sector-19 was held in the institution campus here on Monday. Prof. SS Pattnaik, Vice-Chancellor of Biju Patnaik University of Technology (BPUT) graced the occasion as the Chief Guest. The students of the institution presented 39 exhibits on various topics.  All the exhibits were highly appreciated by the guests. Subrat Kumar Sahoo, Retired Senior Reader in Physics and Mrs Supriti Das, Assistant Manager, Education, Ispat English Medium School of Sector-20 judged the exhibits. Later prizes were given to the winners.  The head of the institution, Mrs Meena Satpathy, presided over the function and delivered the introductory speech. B Mohapatra coordinated and proposed a formal vote of thanks.

Rourkela, Sept 11: “All-out efforts have to be made to popularize the literary oeuvre of Kabi Samrat Upendra Bhanja,” said GS Prasad, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) while addressing the gathering at the ‘Kavi Samrat Upendra Bhanja Festival-2015’ organized at Civic Centre on Thursday. The programme was organised by Aks foundation, a cultural organisation of New Delhi under the auspices of RSP. The cultural evening was inaugurated by the CEO with lighting the ceremonial lamp and paying floral tributes to the legend Kavi Samrat Upendra Bhanja. Mrs Manjari Prasad, President of Deepika Mahila Sanghati (DMS) was the Guest of Honour on the occasion. M K Das, ED (Projects), Mrs Sharmistha Das, Vice President of DMS, Dr AK Singh, Director-in-charge (M&HS), several senior officers of the plant and many culture loving citizens of Rourkela were also present on the occasion. Prasad along with Mrs Manjari Prasad presented the ‘Upendra Bhanja Samm

Bhubaneswar, Sept 11: Adding to the festive fervour of celebrating Ganesh Chaturthi in the state, Odisha’s leading jewellery retail chain Khimji Jewellers has announced the launch of its ‘Ashtavinayak Collection’- a divine series of eight beautiful Ganesh gold pendants exclusively designed by Khimji Jewellers. An ode of reverence to Lord Ganesh, known as the God of wisdom, prosperity and good fortune, these eight representations of exquisite Gold Ganesh pendants come in a variety of shapes and styles including two of the designs having a rudraksh nicely set beneath the trunk of the Lord in the pendants. Appropriately named as ‘Ashtavinayak Collection’, each of the eight pendants has been exclusively designed and crafted by master craftsmen of Khimji Jewellers with 916 purity 22K gold. Each of the pendants is BIS hallmarked and comes packed in a special box created especially for this pious occasion, making it a perfect memoir. The mesmerizing ‘Ashtavinayak collection’

Bhubaneswar, Sept 11: After a day-long protest by the students of KIIT University in Odisha capital, the commissionerate police today arrested a 25-year-old youth on the charges of capturing obscene videos of a girl student at the Campus-VI hall bathroom with the help of his mobile phone installed inside it  yesterday . Accused Rakesh Padhiary The accused identified as Rakesh Padhiary of Gandarpur in Barang on outskirt of the city, was working as a daily labourer in the university. The arrest of Padhiary was made by the Infocity police here after acting on an FIR lodged by the girl student today who had handed over the accused yesterday to the police after some girl students of the university caught red handed the culprit. The student in their complaint had alleged that Padhiary was caught red handed while he was recording the obscene video footage of the girl with the help of his mobile phone camera which he had installed in the bathroom of the Campus-VI bathroom o

Rourkela, Sept 11: The annual function of ‘Ninaad’ the musical venture of Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) will be celebrated at Civic Centre in the Steel City tomorrow. It is worth mentioning here that under the guidance of GS Prasad, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of RSP and a passionate music lover, ‘Ninaad’ was launched about three years ago in order to create a symphony in steel. The idea behind the initiative was to hone and bring to the limelight the musical talents from among the employees as well as their family members. Since then the journey of Ninaad has been extremely exciting and eventful. The initiative that was launched with a handful of artists, now boasts of having about 60 artists comprising employees from various department of the Steel Plant as well as talented spouses and children of many employees. It is a real delight to see how the people who make one of the sturdiest metals on earth like steel can be equally deft in creating a mellifluous mélange of mu

Rourkela, Sept 9: Adding beauty to the ambience inside the Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP), ‘Shyamali’, a beautiful garden developed in front of PBS Cooling Tower of Blast Furnace-5 was inaugurated by GS Prasad, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of RSP today. RSP CEO inaugurating 'Shyamali' Umesh Kumar, ED (MM), M K Das, ED (Projects), S K Acharya, ED (Projects), A K Singh, Director In-charge (M&HS), several general managers and many other senior officers of the plant and employees in large numbers were present on the occasion. The CEO along with the EDs and other senior officers went around the garden and appreciated the efforts of all the departments which had combined their efforts for developing such a picturesque garden. Prasad also planted a tree in the garden to mark the occasion. It is worth mentioning here that the garden has been developed by the Projects Department in association with CE (S) and Material Recovery Department. Spread over an area of more

Bhubaneswar, Sept 6: Panic struck residents of the Banalata Apartment located in Saheed Nagar area in Odisha capital when a 45-year-old lady doctor committed suicide by jumping from the 8th floor of the apartment this afternoon. Suicide (Courtesy- newsfirst.lk ) Though the incident took place around 1.30 pm, the deceased body was reportedly recovered an hour later by the police who were informed by the apartment people. The deceased, identified as Swetapadma Mishra, a gynecologist working at Jagannath Hospital located under Saheed Nagar police limits, was then rushed to Apollo hospital in the city where she was declared brought dead. Her body was then shifted to Capital hospital here for the post-mortem. Police sources said though the actual death of Swetapadma, wife of Arijit Mohapatra, a pediatrics at the same hospital, is yet to be ascertained, but the deceased parents have lodged a complaint at the local police station bringing allegation of murder against their

Rourkela, Sept 5: ‘Teachers come in different forms’, said Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Rourkela Steel Plant while addressing the teachers and the students on September 5 on the occasion of the Teachers Day celebration at Civic Centre here. RSP CEO addressing at Teachers' Day celebration The CEO G S Prasad was the chief guest on the occasion. Recalling the immense contribution for the cause of education by Dr Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan, the second President of India whose birthday is celebrated as Teacher’s Day, he urged the teachers to walk the talk. He extolled the contributions made by Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, the missile man of India, in the area of education and the impact on the lives of students. Adding further, he said that learning is a never ending process and one should be ready to learn from everyone including the happening around and the surroundings. He urged the teachers to invest in students and build great individuals with humane qualities which

Bhubaneswar, Sept 5: Showing her bravery in fighting two looteras, a 35-year-old woman today managed to catch the miscreants, who had planned to snatch her gold chain while she was entering to her residence in Rasulgarh area in Odisha capital with her scooty, getting help of local people. The miscreants identified as Bijay Kumar Sahu and Harihar Das, both hail from Haladipadia under Laxmisagar police limits were later handed over to the Mancheswar police personnel by the locals. Police sources said while the complainant Deepti Rekha Rout of Rasulgarh area was returning with her child in scooty this afternoon, two bike-borne miscreants followed her vehicle. The accused persons tried to snatch the lady’s gold chain when she was entering her residence. “The accused persons first tried to snatch the gold chain of the lady and when she resisted they took hold of her child and tried to harm her. The lady did not lose her nerve and fought till last minute to catch the looters.

Bhubaneswar, July 3: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which is probing into the multi-thousand crore chit fund scam operated in the Odisha, has submitted charge sheet against three employees of the Zodiac Foundation, a ponzi firm, in the special CBI court here on June 30, sources in the CBI revealed today. CBI head office in Bhubaneswar photo courtesy- pragativadi.com   The 17-page charge sheet, framed against Dandapani Sethi, Gagan Bihari Behera and Subash Chandra Mahanta of the Zodiac Foundation, was submitted in the court by the investigating officer of CBI SIT BN Samal and senior public prosecutor of CBI KC Mishra. The CBI had arrested Dandapani Sethi from Phulbani for his alleged involvement in the chit fund scam on May 8. The charge sheet has revealed that Dandapani Sethi, an employee of Zodiac Foundation, was working in the company’s head office in Bhanjanagar in Ganjam district and had allegedly collected Rs 1,07,64,960 from the investors

Bhubaneswar, July 3: The special CBI court here, in its ruling, rejected the bail plea of former BJD MLA from Keonjhar Subarna Naik on Thursday evening following a hearing on the bail petition on June 27. Former BJD MLA Subarna Naik Naik was arrested by the CBI on November 4 last year on charges of criminal conspiracy in the multi-crore chit fund scam in the state. He was one of the directors of Nabadiganta Capital Services, a chit fund company which has been accused of duping thousands of investors in the state. The court rejected the bail plea of Naik after a preliminary chargesheet was filed against him and five others by the CBI. On the other hand Khurda SDJM court had also rejected the bail plea of Congress leader and businessman Dillip Mohanty, who was earlier arrested by the CBI for his alleged links with chit fund company Artha Tatwa (AT) Group. According to CBI sources, Dillip had played the role of mediator in order to sell a land a

Rourkela, May 23: The medical expertise and timely intervention of the doctors and staff of Ispat General Hospital (IGH) of Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) have once again saved the life of an infant who reached the hospital on May 20 this year, in a critical condition. An 8-month old baby boy Umesh Chhatar from Bargarh aspirated a piece of vegetable accidentally on May 20 morning which got struck in his lower airway. He was rushed to the Bargarh Hospital in a critical condition. He was then referred by the Bargarh hospital to VSS Medical College, Burla who in turn referred the patient to IGH, Rourkela. At the time of admission to IGH, the infant’s condition had worsened. He was in shock, suffered from severe breathlessness and was diagnosed with alarmingly low oxygen saturation. A team of doctors under the leadership of Dr D Sahoo, Senior Deputy Director (ENT) conducted the operation through bronchoscopy under general anesthesia and successfully took out the vegetative p