Jagdev -"the conqueror"

Bhubaneswar: For the first time in Odisha, Maa Ghara Foundation Trust (MGFT) have announced to confer on the best woman with ‘Maa Ghara Woman Peace Maker Award 2014’ for her contribution towards bringing peace at the time of any conflicts. The award will be given every year on the occasion of International Mother’s Day slated on May 11. Rutuparna Mohanty, Managing Trustee of MGFT informed that the award is for those women who were contributing a lot at the time of conflicts such as border dispute, violence against women, working in the left wing extremists areas, industrial disputes, displaced area issue and during emergencies. Elaborating the Nagaland, Kashmir, Andhra Pradesh violence, Mohanty said the women either she may be an able administrator, mediapersons and activists fighting with these issues with an aim to bring peace, are eligible to qualify for the award. To apply for this award, Maa Ghara has invited applicants through social media, electronics, print media...

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.