Two arrested in Umerkote for betting on IPL matches.

Nabarangpur: Basant Rath, Reporter

Two persons were arrested on charges of betting in IPL matches following a raid at at a house in Umerkot-Raighar road on Tuesday night.

Acting on a tip-off, police raided the house of bookie Ramiz Hingora and nabbed the bookie and his aide Srinabas Rao. Rs 18.80 lakh cash, a laptop, five mobile phones, a TV, diaries and calculators were seized from the house.  

Investigation is on to unravel the involvement of others suspected to be involved in the betting racket,  said Birendra Senapati  IIC of Umerkote Police.

 Sources said many youths were organising betting in the Umerkote and Nabarangpur. Police suspected that they had links with Delhi  organisers and conducted betting in crores.

UNICEF TO CHIP IN NABARANGPUR GROWTH

Nabarangpur: Basant Rath, Reporter.

A four-member Unicef team visited Nabarangpur, headed by its Odisha chief Yumi Bae on Friday.

The Unicef will play a pivotal role in providing technical support to the district administration for enhancing reproductive maternal and child health, besides integrated child development through gram panchayat resources centre, said district Collector Rashmita Panda.

"We have strategies to demonstrate in one block where we implement all activities through community mobilisation and gram panchayat resources centre will be key to improve all indicators like health, nutrition, education, water and sanitation programmes, she added".

Speaking on the occasion Yumi said the Collector Nabarangpur requested us to provide technical support to strengthen the indicators of the district. ‘We have a fruitful discussion and we shared different ideas to strengthen and monitor overall development by building village capacity to demand services through village planning and foster linkages between the Government and the communities,’ she added.

Among others, PDDRDA Poma Tudu,Sub-Collector Gavali Parag Harshad were present at the meeting. 

Free Cancer diagnosis Mega camp held at Nabarangpur

Nabarangpur:

A cancer check-up and treatment camp was organised at district headquarter hospital here on Saturday. Noted Doctor Dinesh Pendharkar from Mumbai rendred his services during the camp while Acharya Harihar Regional Cancer Centre (AHRCC) Cuttack  director Dr. L. Sarangi,  with Joint director NCD Odisha, Dr. PKB Patnaik, attended the camp. Under the guidance of the doctors chemotherapy was administer at the DHH by the trained doctor Debabrata Dakua,  A total no of 79 patients were attended the camp the team of doctors referred some of the patients to ARCC Cuttack for oncosurgery and radiotherapy.

During the function, Collector Ms. Rashmita Panda, CDMO Anup Kumar Ghose, Joint CDMO Niranjan Nayak, ADMO  Dr. Ch.Sovarani Mishra, and others were also present. Collecot Ms.Panda,assured to provide monetary help to the patients those who are referred to ARCC.It was for the first time that such a mega camp was being held at DHH Nabarangpur. Owing to increasing awareness about cancer, the number of cases with early detection had increased, which was helping the doctors cure the disease in the initial stage itself.

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Dist. level Mondei Fest from Jan 19th to 23rd.

NABARANGPUR: BASANT RATH, Correspondent.

Mondei, the annual cultural extravaganza that showcases Nabarangpur’s rich cultural heritage, will begin in January 12^th of 2016 from Parua village under Raighar Block.The block level celebration will go on till January 18^th of 2016. The district-level mega festival would be held for three days from 19^th to 21. For the first time two  days Dasia Nataka will be staged from 22^nd to 23^rd  besides a five-day Pallishree Mela, said Collector Rashmita Panda, while presiding over the meeting held at Ashok Meheta Conference hall here on Wednesday.

Various competitions Manch Natak Mahotsav’, ‘Kavi Sammelan’,baby health show, quiz and dance competitions will be organised. In the meeting Collector Ms.Rashmita Panda, presided over the meeting while MLAs Manohar Randhari, Bhujabala Majhi, Zilla Parisad President Motiram Nayak, PDDRDA Pooma Tudu, DFO Swayam Mallik, PAITDA Narayan Murmu, sub-collector Gavali Parag Harshad, along with the district level officials, Media persons, and distinguished persons present at the meeting.

CENTRAL TEAM TO VISIT DROUGHT-HIT DISTRICTS SOON

Bhubaneswar:

A Central team would soon visit the drought-hit districts in the State.

Union Agriculture Minister Radhamohan Singh has directed the concerned officials to send a team led by Ministry’s Additional Commissioner Dr RP Mallick to take stock of the drought situation in Odisha.

The team would be comprised experts from the Central Rice Research Institute (CRRI), Cuttack and Central and State Government officials.

Notably, Union Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Dharmendra Pradhan had apprised the Union Agriculture Minister about the drought-like situation occurred in 103 blocks in 23 districts, including Dhenkanal, Khordha, Boudh, Bargarg, Subarnapur, Kandhamal and Keonjhar districts due to deficient rainfall. He had urged the Minister to send a special team for the purpose, said a release issued by the BJP State unit.

However, the itinerary of the team is yet to be finalised.

ODISHA GIRL LALITA WINS TOP AWARD AT GOOGLE FAIR

Bhubaneswar: 

Thirteen-year-old Lalita Prasida Sripada Srisai from Odisha won the Community Impact Award at the prestigious Google Science Fair competition in California on Tuesday. The young scientist’s project was on development of low-cost bio-absorbent based on corn cobs.

The DPS Damanjodi student in Koraput has created a project which aims to clean waste water by running it through layers of corn cobs, powdered corn cobs, activated charcoal made from corn cobs and fine sand. This is a cost-effective and simple technique which is useful in immobilising contaminants in domestic and industrial effluents, and in ponds, reservoirs and water tanks.

The award with a cash prize of 10,000 US Dollar has been sponsored by Scientific American. Lalita will be further supported for one year by the organisation to build on her project. She has won the award in 13-15 years age group.