Kendrapada cops hold blood camp on R-Day 

Kendrapada: The police here on Sunday celebrated the 71st Republic Day in a unique style by organising a voluntary mega blood donation camp at the Kendrapada SDPO office aiming to keep a good rapport with the people. The camp was organised under the supervision of Superintendent of Police Niti Sekhar. Several local gentries, youths and police personnel donated blood and felicitated in the end.

Ambulance overturns; 3 injured in Baleswar

Baleswar: Three persons were seriously injured when an ambulance overturned on NH-60 near Jaleswar in Baleswar district late on Monday night. The victims were returning Bhograi by the ambulance after dropping a patient there. The driver lost control over the wheels, following which it turned turtle injuring the three occupants, including the driver. They were rescued and admitted to the District Headquarters Hospital.

1dies, 3 hurt in head-on bike collision

Pallahara: A youth died and three others were injured after two motorcycles had a head-on collision on Jamara village road under the Pallahara police station on Sunday. The deceased was identified as Deba Charan Barij and injured were Pradip Naik, Gagan Munda and Pagal Badauli of Kshetrabasipur village. Getting information, Fire Services personnel reached the spot and rushed the youths to the Pallahara hospital, where doctors declared Deba Charan brought dead. After the conditions of the injured deteriorated, they were shifted to the Angul hospital.

Rourkela boy in Japan U19 cricket team

Rourkela: Odia boy Debasish Sahoo, included in Japan’s Under-19 cricket team, performed well in the World Cup qualifying matches. Though Debasish has been staying with his parents in Tokyo since he was three years old, his grandfather Kailash Chandra Sahoo and many other family members have been staying in Kalunga in Rourkela. He had been practising cricket at the Myes Cricket Club there.

GKEL wins award for blood donation

Bhubaneswar: The GMR Kamalanga Energy Limited (GKEL) along with GMR Varalakshmi Foundation (GMRVF), the CSR wing of the GMR Group, bagged Best Corporate Award for the fifth time from the Odisha Blood Bank, Dhenkanal for conducting maximum blood donation camps at its plant premises in 2019. GMRVF senior programme leader Dillip Kumar Kar received the award from SSEPD Miniser Ashok Chandra Panda in the presence of MLA Sudhir Kumar Samal, district Collector Bhumesh Chandra Behera and SP Anupama James on the Republic Day. GKEL COO Ramesh R Pai congratulated the employees.