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Cold wave conditions intensified in Odisha as mercury dropped below 10 degree Celsius at 10 places today.
Phulbani was the coldest, with a minimum temperature of 4 degree Celsius, followed by Jharsuguda, Daringbadi, Angul, Koraput, Bhawanipatna, Boudh, Keonjhar and Sonepur, all of which recorded temperatures between 5 and 10 degrees Celsius.
The Regional Transport Office here has been directed to begin new LL applications from 20.11.2020 following COVID guidelines.
The decision was taken after the demand for slots came down in the RTO.
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Angul, Oct 27 (LocalWire): A total of three persons under the Purunakote police limits in Angul district today died due to alleged consumption of spurious liquor.
Meanwhile, three more are still said to be sick. The sick have been admitted to the District Headquarter Hospital (DHH), Angul. An investigation into the case has now begun by the district police.
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Angul, October 19 (LocalWire): An open-cast coal mine of the state-run Mahanadi Coalfields Limited (MCL) has been made encroachment free with the district police administration evicting the squatters from occupied mining territory.
The MCL’s plan to expand the underground mining at the Jagannath open cast mine failed to make any headway since the mining area was taken over for illegal human settlement for over a year.
“The illegal occupation had resulted in the loss of coal production and off-take to the tune of two million tonnes during the current financial year,” MCL head of public relations Dikken Mehra said.
According to reports, over 15 families who were illegally occupying the mining are near Rakas village were evicted and shifted to temporary accommodation at the Central Colony.
“The eviction was successfully carried out despite a show of protest.
However, as the encroachers did not leave the place voluntarily they had to be relocated,” a senior police official stated.
“In accordance with the rehabilitation and resettlement policy of the government, the oustees were awarded Rs 1.2 lakh ex-gratia housing assistance. Besides each of the family was provided with Rs one lakh for shifting,” an MCL official said.
“As a section of encroachers refused to leave the land, the police had to detain the protesters.
Some politically affiliated people also staged a protest and as a result production at all coal mines in Talcher coalfields came to an abrupt halt last evening.
It caused a loss of 50,000 tons of coal production,” the company official said.
“The production in Jagannath open cast and the Balram open cast mines continues to be affected as the protest continued.
Normal operation has resumed in a dozen of other coal mines,” the official added.
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Angul, September 25 (LocalWire): In a game that ended with a high-tension penalty shootout, Royal Dynamos defeated Extreme to lift the inter-departmental football tournament Futsal 2019 on Tuesday.
The tournament that began on 18 September was organised by Jindal Officer Club (JOC) of Jindal Steel and Power Ltd (JSPL), Angul.
Team Royal Dynamos, comprising players from HR, C-Utility, ED-Office, and Safety, won the match by defeating the team Extreme 2-1 in a penalty shootout.
JSPL Iron Making head and JOC general secretary Damodar Mittal graced the occasion as the chief guest and distributed trophies to the winner and runners-up teams.
Overall six teams comprising best players from various departments of JSPL Angul participated in the annual football tournament that was played under flood-light.
Gajender Singh Sekhawat and Anurag Rout of team Extreme were awarded the Golden Boot Award and Best Goalkeeper Award of the Tournament, respectively whereas BhaskarHalder of Josh team was declared the Player of the Tournament.
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Angul, July 3 (LocalWire): Two young men started their journey from Cuttack to New Delhi on bicycles on Monday to draw Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s attention to the long-drawn ‘Mahanadi river water’ dispute between Odisha and Chhattisgarh.
Twenty-one-year old Krishnakanta Sarangi of Mahanga block is a BTech student and nineteen-year-old Subhrajeet Barik is a Postgraduate student.
They reached Angul on Wednesday after covering other districts and were greeted by the locals who offered their best wishes for the duo’s onward journey.
The cyclists plan to reach New Delhi by 4 August where they will meet Modi and present in detail the state’s problems following the water dispute and will urge him to solve the same.
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Anugul, Feb 1 (LocalWire) A teenager in Bantala village has allegedly committed suicide by consuming poison after an adult video of her went viral, police said on Friday.
According to the police, the deceased was in a romantic relationship with a man from Talcher area. They used to communicate through video calls.
The accused had recorded a video showing private parts of the lady and shared it online.
Police said the girl might have taken the extreme step out of embarrassment.
She was admitted to Angul Hospital in a critical condition.
She died Thursday evening. Deceased’s parents have lodged an FIR against the man and the case is under investigation, police said.
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Angul, Dec 31 (LocalWire) The Jindal Steel & Power Ltd. (JSPL), Angul organized a pre-New Year celebration for its workers residing at Shramik Vihar of the plant premises.
Chief Operating Officer and Head (Sales and Operation Planning) of JSPL’s Steel Business Pankaj Gautam and Head (Iron Making) Damodar Mittal graced the occasion as Chief-Guest and Guest of Honor respectively.
More than 6000 workers of JSPL Angul participated in this event.
JSPL’s Head (HR & ES) Alok Malhotra, HoDs and executives of various departments were also present on the occasion.