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Paradip, Jan 18 (LocalWire) Police on Saturday arrested a central industrial security force constable for allegedly molesting a four-year-old girl after luring her with chocolates, officials said.
The accused M.Kandaswami, a native Tamil Nadu was deployed at Paradip Refinery of the Indian Oil Corporation (IOCL).
He allegedly lured the girl with chocolates at molested her three four times, police officer Yugal Kishore Das said.
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Jagatsinghpur, Jan 16 (Localwire): A two-year-old girl abandoned by her mother near beggar was produced Thursday before the district Child Welfare Committee (CWC) here.
The mother came with her child to Gorekhnath Peeth temple in Kerekera village under Raghunathpur police station to worship on Makara Sankrati Wednesday, and left the girl with a woman beggar on the plea of tracing her missing husband.
The unidentified woman believed to be from a well-off family later didn’t return to take back her child.
Sarpanch of Chapada panchyat Bijay Kumar Swain immediately rushed to the spot after receiving the information and took up the matter with the child line after which the girl was rescued from the beggar.
The child has now been kept at the local Sishu Ashram.
“The child line personnel have produced the abandoned girl before CWC today.
Her health condition is okay. Police has lodged a missing case and started investigation,” Chairperson of district CWC Bisesweri Mohanty told Localwire.
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Jagatsinghpur, Jan 14 (LocalWire): The water resources and public relations minister Raghunandan Das on Tuesday inaugurated a community centre at Nigamananda Ashram of Nalio village under Balikuda block in the district of Jagatsinghpur.
The Paradip Port Trust has sponsored the centre under its corporate social responsibility fund.
The minister while speaking on the occasion thanked the port trust officials for providing CSR fund of Rs. 20 lakh for building the centre, which will benefit the local community in Balikuda area for their welfare activities.
Bimal Kumar Jha, Secretary of Paradip Port Trust, also addressed the gathering. Guru Prasad Chotray, former President of Nilachal Saraswat Sangh, presided over the ceremony.
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Jagatsinghpur, Jan 9 (LocalWire): Hundreds of students, who passed out of SVM College, here, went on an indefinite strike today protesting the fake migration and registration certificate provided to them which deprived them of higher education.
In 2015 -16, the SVM College management committee had admitted excess students in Arts, Commerce and Science streams, beyond the numbers approved by Utkal University.
The college took huge amount of donation to admit the students and issued fake university registration numbers allowing the students to take examinations conducted by Utkal University.
They were later handed over fake graduation certificates in 2018.
Due to erroneous registration numbers reflecting in their provisional certificates, none of the students could pursue higher studies.
A three-member joint inquiry team by the department of higher education, government of Odisha, had conducted a probe into the illegal admission process.
But since that yielded no result, the students have demanded a vigilance inquiry and action against errant employees.
In October 2019, they protested en masse but the college principal assured them of providing genuine certificates and they withdrew their agitation.
But after three months elapsed, they submitted a memorandum to Principal Nitarani Kar and vowed to go on an indefinite strike in front of the college unless their original migration certificate and registrations are provided by 8 January 2020.
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Paradip, Jan 9 (LocalWire): A woman and her two daughters were tied to a tree and stripped in Hasina village under Kujang police station jurisdiction today over a land dispute. Two people have been arrested in this connection.
Haramani Tarai and her neighbours had a long-standing land dispute. Today her negihbours Bijay Tarai and his brother Gajendra Tarai forcibly entered Haramani’s land and started digging to construct a toilet.
When Haramani and her family protested the brothers assaulted them and threatened to kill them.
When Haramani’s daughter protested, the neighbours attacked and injured her.
After attacking, Two women from the neighbours’ family then tied the mother and two daughters to a tree and stripped them for protesting the construction. The three women were then assaulted by the neighbours.
Villagers rescued them and sent them to Kujang hospital for treatment.
Anima Tarai lodged an FIR in Kujang police station. IIC of Kujang police station Dillip Sahoo said, ‘Police registered the case and arrested the brothers Bijay and Gajendra and forwarded them to the court today.
We are investigating the involvement of the two women who abused them. After investigation, police will arrest other culprits.’
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Paradip, Jan 3 (LocalWire): Normal life in the district was disrupted by the bandh call by the trade unions which also affected the production of fertilizers in Paradeep Phosphate Ltd, IFFCO and Paradip Refinery here.
In response to a dawn-to-dusk bandh, production was stopped at IFFCO, PPL, Paradip Refinery Project and Essar Steel Plant.
Trade union and CPI leaders protested in front of PPT and other government offices by holding placards and banners against the Central government for its policies.
Normal life was completely paralysed at Jagatsinghpur, Kujang, Tirtol, Raghunathpur, Balikuda, Naugaon and other places with road blockades and demonstrations at bus stands and railway stations but there was no report of any violence from any part of the district.
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Paradip, Jan 7 (LocalWire): A state-level team on solid waste management in Odisha visited Paradip today to look into proper implementation of Sewerage Treatment Plant (STP) and solid waste management projects.
The team interacted with chairman of Paradip Port Trust, Rinkesh Roy, for implementation of the STP, other officials and the executive officer of Paradip municipality.
The team constituted under the chairmanship of Justice P K Mohanty visited the local community health centre in Paradip port, Paradip municipality solid waste processing unit, Manijanaga Community Health Centre and also visited biomedical waste management site in the hospital.
The team was accompanied by the principal secretary of forest and environment Moona Sharma, member secretary of state Pollution Control Board, Devidatta Biswal and other officials.
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Paradip, Jan 6 (LocalWire): Several new migratory birds were spotted in the waterbodies here during the census held here today.
Enumerators sighted as many as 38 different species of 27,600 birds that have come here for their annual winter sojourn.
White Eye Pochard, Grey Plovers were spotted by a team of bird watchers led by Divisional Forest Officer (DFO) Rajnagar, Manas Kumar Das. Hundreds of people including school children also attended a symposium on avian species and their migration pattern.
Deputy General Manager (corporate affairs), PPL Sudhi Ranjan Mishra said, ‘The number of winged birds from foreign countries to PPL plant waterbodies have increased every year This shows that there is less pollution at the plant site and PPL has preserved the environment very well.’
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Paradip, January 4 (Localwire): State chief secretary Asit Tripathy on Saturday emphasised on the role of Paradip Port in the economic development of Odisha.
Visiting the state-of-the-art sewage treatment plant at the Paradip Port he said, that the investment of Rs 7,000 crore in the ongoing projects will lead to the economic development of the state.
The chief secretary also appreciated the commitment of the Port authority and working culture among PPT employees under the leadership of the chairman Rinkesh Roy.
According to the sources, the construction of the sewage treatment plant is now at the pre-commissioning stage.
The chief secretary also visited the state-of-the-art Dry Fog System installed at the Mechanised Coal Handling Plant and inaugurated the plantation programme to plant one lakh sapling and beautification of the township entry point.
Later in the evening, Tripathy reviewed the activities of Paradip Port at a high-level meeting, wherein the PPT chairman Roy outlined the issues and updates him about the latest developments.
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Paradip, Jan 3 (LocalWire): Following in the footsteps of Budhia Singh, the world’s youngest marathon runner, five-year-old Budhaditya Mohanty participated ‘unofficially’ in the 14-km-marathon organized here on the occasion of port foundation day, today as he was denied entry.
Gopabandhu Kreeda Sansad, conducted the 17th Paradip Marathon where the child was not allowed as the age limit for the marathon was 18-41 years.
Parents of Budhaditya, hailing from Jharpada Kesura of Bhubaneswar town, forced their way to include their child in the marathon.
His father Debadatta Mohanty claimed his son ran the Goa and Hyderabad marathons which were 42 kms and 21 kms respectively. He also said that Budhaditya is used to running long stretches.
The child used to complete 25 to 30 kms at the age of three and now at the age of five, he runs 65 kms from Palasuni to Puri without taking rest. He walks when he gets tired but never stops during the total length, his father said.
Mohanty also added that on 29 December, his son participated in the police marathon in Bhubaneswar non- officially where Home Minister Dibya Shankar Mishra and the Police Commissioner of Bhubaneswar Sudhansu Sarangi felicitated him.
Working president of Gopabandu Kreeda Sansad, Paradip, Bablu Sikdar, said ‘we were not against the child participating in the marathon but since only 18-41 aged people were allowed to participate by the PPT management, we stopped him.’
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