Jagatsinghpur

Jagatsinghpur, November 19 (LocalWire): The police arrested five persons for illegally transporting cattle in Jagatsinghpur town on Tuesday morning.

As many as 15 animals, including 14 cows were rescued by the police after they seized the three vehicles that the smugglers were using to transport them.

Acting on a tip-off, the police stopped three trucks carrying cattle from Somanath at Hatapole of Jagatsinghpur.

It was found that the cattle were being illegally transported to slaughterhouses.

The accused persons have been identified as Nuran Sha and Mehebub Sha of Niali in Cuttack, Mirza Kabul and Mirza Sakil Baig of Ohala in Jagatsinghpur, and Ohit Khan of Nimapada in Puri district.

While the government has made laws to check cruelty on animals illegal cattle trading is on the rise in the state.

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Jagatsinghpur, Nov 15 (LocalWire): A three-member inter-ministerial Central team accompanied by the director, agriculture, M Muthukumar and Collector Sangram Keshari Mohapatra, visited several villages of Paradip and Erasama today to assess the damage caused by Cyclone Bulbul.

They visited Baleipur panchayat and interacted with farmers whose crops were affected during the cyclone.

Farmers took the team around and showed how hundreds of acres of crops were submerged in water. So, the crops that survived the cyclone are now rotten.

The sarpanch of Baleipur panchayat Muralidhar Mallick said, ‘738 hectares of paddy crop was cultivated and 81 hectares got damaged during the cyclone in this panchyat.

The Central team visited the fields and saw our plight.’

Crops like paddy and other vegetables were worst-hit by Bulbul in Kujang, Erasama, Tirtol and other areas of Jagatsinghpur district.

The panchayats that the Central team couldn’t visit are apprehensive of receiving aid from the National Disaster Relief Fund.

The sarpanch of Gadharishpur, Bhimsen Rout said, ‘villagers are worried as the crop damaged in this panchayat was not assessed by the Central team.

But although the Central team skipped our panchayat, a district-level team led by deputy director, agriculture, Rabi Narayan Mohapatra, visited the farmlands and assured us of submitting a report regarding the damage caused here.’

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Jagatsinghpur, Nov 8 (LocalWire): The people of Jagatsinghpur felicitated the president of International Geeta Mission cum preacher of Sisu Annant Ashram, Tirtol, Swami Chidananda Brahamchari for receiving the prestigious ‘Geeta Ratna’ award in Tripura recently.

Last month, Swami Chidananda Brahamchari attended International Yuva Samavesh at Agartala in Tripura where he delivered a speech on the role of youth to promote spiritual thought and advised them to recite Bhagwat Geeta for purification.

On this occasion, the Chief Justice of Tripura High Court, Sapan Das awarded ‘Geeta Ratna’ to him for his outstanding performance for spreading and reciting Geeta for the last 26 years.

Chidananda Brahmachari is not only a preacher but a writer, social activist and an environmentalist who has taken efforts to spread the w Geeta in all sections of society, especially youth groups.

For this rare achievement, the people of Jagatsinghpur, Kendrapada, Rourkela, Bhubaneswar have felicitated him during different occasions.

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Paradip, Nov 5 (LocalWire): A fishing trawler that was returning from the deep collided with a sunken vessel ‘Black Rose’ off Paradip coast in the wee hours today, injuring five fishermen on board the vessel.

The Baleswer-based fishing trawler ‘Jagat Janani’ lost its way in the sea due to heavy fog and collided with ‘Black Rose’ 10 nautical miles off Paradip.

Hearing their screams, other fishermen rushed to the spot and rescued Kali Charan Das, trawler driver, Suresh Das, Boyal Charan Das, Kanhu Dutta hailing from Chandibali of Bhadrak district and Santosh Gaud from Aska of Ganjam district sent them to Paradip Fishing harbour in another boat. They sustained minor injuries and were admitted in Atharbanki hospital for treatment.

IIC of Jatadhari Marine Police station Bharat Behera said, ‘Indian Cost Guard told police regarding the collision. The trawler sunk but the fishermen are safe’.

The Mongolian ship Black Rose registered with the UK-based P&I Club had sunk in Bay of Bengal in 2009.

It had no valid documents. Even the insurance papers deposited by the owner of the ship were found to be a fake.

The ship had 23 , 847 metric tonnes of iron ore cargo, 924 tonnes furnace oil, 50 tonnes diesel and 40 tonnes grease and 27 crew members.

Chief engineer Oleksandar Liyushckenko was killed while 26 other crew members were rescued by the Paradip Port Trust.

After ten years of this mishap, there has been no headway in the investigation. As the removal of the ship is costly, neither the PPT nor the government has yet taken any steps to remove it. Since it is completely submerged, it is not visible during fog.

Though different organizations and political party leaders have urged to dismantle the debris of Black Rose from sea as it hampers the movements of ships and due to pollution on sea nothing has been done on this regard.

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