Paradip

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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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 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, Dec 24 (LocalWire): Police today detained several demonstrators for protesting and ransacking the office of JSW steel plant here.

The demonstrators also protested in front of the Paradip police station.

Unemployed youths under the banner of Student Organization of Biju Pattnaik University (SOBU) alleged that they were not being provided employment even after the district administration had assured them in October of job opportunities in the steel major’s new plant that is going to be set up here soon.

JSW steel company, they alleged, was not giving priority to local skilled engineers despite them possessing the required skills. Contractors were engaging non-Odia workers while JSW ignored local youths in the unskilled sector too.

Vice President (projects) JSW Paradip Terminal, Praveen Jhanji, had assured and committed to fulfill their demands in October.

He had promised that local youths would be given priority in jobs and employment would be provided to skilled engineers within two months.

The district administration had also decided that contractors engaged by the JSW Paradip Terminal would give priority to local youths while providing employment in unskilled sectors, unemployed engineers would be given priority and the company would ensure that local youths engaged by the global contractors are not harassed.

But since the deadline was over and no jobs provided yet, irate activists of SOBU demonstrated demanding jobs.

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