Jagdev -"the conqueror"

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...

Rourkela, May 23: National Institute of Technology (NIT), Rourkela has been placed in Top 10 Government T-School in Dataquest-CMR Survey 2015, informed a press release issued today by the institute. NIT, Rourkela This is India’s top tech-schools rank based on survey of colleges, employees and alumni which includes all IITs, NITs and CFTIs. Every year Dataquest (DQ) brings the spotlight back to the T-Schools in India, which have nurtured the great minds, by ranking the T-Schools on the basis of a survey conducted in conjunction with the Cyber Media Research (CMR). The DQ-CMR T-School Survey 2014-15 has taken an interesting step by putting the private and government T-Schools into different lists. This is one-of-a-kind survey where private T-Schools are being ranked in a different list.  At Dataquest, it is a judicious decision since the rankings would inspire private schools to excel, compete and outdo not only their private counterparts by al...

Bhubaneswar, May 22: As per the schedule, the Joint Eviction Team consisting of Bhubaneswar Development Authority (BDA), Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC), IDCO and GA departments rushed to the Ambatota Basti for demolition of unauthorized constructions over IDCO land on Friday. The encroached land was situated under Chandrasekharpur Mauza measuring area of 6.28 acres. The same eviction was started from yesterday (21.05.2015) following a requisition made by Divisional Head, BCD division of IDCO vide Letter No.-1237 noticed on May 14 this year. 63 numbers of dwelling houses, 5 Cowshed, 2 wooden cabins and 2 temporary shops was demolished by the squad engaged in the eviction drive. Demolition squad of BDA and GA along with OSSF personals and Home Guards of BDA were also present. Five excavators (one from BDA, one from BMC and three from IDCO) have been engaged by the squad for the eviction drive. The demolition drive was con...

Bhubaneswar, May 22: Notorious Odisha gangster Anil Chhotray, along with 15 others, was today acquitted by a local court here in connection with the sensational Prachi Division shootout case in the capital city in April 2005. Pic Courtesy:  gunssavelives.net The Second Additional District Sessions Judge Court, in its judgement, acquitted the accused persons in the shootout case due to lack of evidence. Sources in the court said the Judge found incoherence in investigation carried out by the Nayapalli police and the State Crime Branch during their filing of charge-sheets at the court. It may be recalled that two petty contractors Rubu alias Subash Chandra Das and Dhiren Kumar Sethi were chased and shot dead near Prachi Divisional Executive Engineer's office in the heart of city on April 18, 2005, by three unidentified armed assailants over tender fixing issue. An FIR was filed by Prakash Chandra Das, brother of deceased Subash, with the Nayapalli police foll...

Bhubaneswar, May 22: Dhauli Police Station IIC Debi Prasad Das was nabbed red-handed by Vigilance officials here today while he was taking bribe of Rs 10,000 from a person staying in Lingipur area in order to drop a case. Dhauli police station IIC Debi Prasad Das Getting alerted a 15 member team of Vigilance officials headed by Vigilance Cell DSP Debadutta Seth conducted surprise raid at the residence of the IIC located in Pokhariput area and seized the said amount from Das. Rakesh Das of Sasan Damodarpur Village in Puri district at present staying at Lingipur here had informed the Vigilance officials that the IIC had demanded Rs 20,000 from him to drop the case being registered against him and save him from arrest. According to Rakesh, a neighbour named Basudev Patra, owner of Janani Hospital used to burn Bio-medical waste as fuel which used to emit bad smell in the surrounding. Unable to tolerate the foul smell, Rakesh lodged a complaint at the Dhau...

Bhubaneswar, May 22: Parents of Kumari Suchita, a student of Odisha University of Agriculture and Technology (OUAT), who had reportedly committed suicide on November 18 last year, today sought mediapersons intervention bringing allegation that their daughter was murdered. Parents of Kumari Suchita Talking to the mediapersons in a press conference at Lohiya Academy here Suchita’s mother Dr Mudrika Tiwari, who was accompanied by Pradip Pradhan, State Convener of Odisha Soochna Adhikar Abhiyan (OSAA) and a lawyer, claimed, “My daughter was very brave. She could not have committed suicide, it was a case of murder. Suchita’s father Harendra Kumar demanded a CBI probe into the matter. Suchita’s parents also accused Khandagiri police of not investigating the case properly. “Suchita was upset about something after she returned from the Fourth International Rice Congress in Bangkok. She, however, didn’t say what was bothering her. I think something happened on that trip which...

Bhubaneswar, May 21: After nearly 16 months of the incident, the District and Sessions Judge Court here today convicted a man to 10 years imprisonment for hurling crude bomb on to the CBI Special Court Judge dais in Odisha capital. Upendra Mohanty The judgement was passed by assistant session Judge PL Sathpathy.  Upendra Mohanty alias Netaji, a 63-year-old man belonging to Sarangpur village of Bari in Jajpur district, was arrested by the Badagada police soon after he hurled two crude bombs at the CBI Special Court Judge dais during lunch break on January 27 last year. Police had registered a case against Mohanty under sections 307, 342, 341 and 3/4 Explosive Act on the next day and forwarded him to a local court here. Mohanty had hurled an improvised fire cracker at the Judge’s dais during lunch time when the CBI judge Manoj Kumar Panda was in his chamber but not in court room. The explosion had damaged the office room causing two holes at the dais plank ...