News from Keonjhar

Naik was recently transferred from Keonjhar district headquarters to Nandipada police station. However, his body was found floating in a pond located in front of the police station on Tuesday morning. 

The mishap occurred in the wee hours of Wednesday at Sathighar Sahi near National Highway 20 passing through Keonjhar.

As per initial reports, Satyabhama was been allegedly stoned to death by some unidentified miscreants. Source said, Satyabhama was a former samiti member and was also vice president of Pandapada mandal for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

A resident of Sadang Panchayat, Dasarathi Jena had made rounds of the block office and bank to get his pension money. Fed up with the inertia of the officials involved, he staged a sit-in at the panchayat office with a bottle of poison. 

Sushant Kumar Barik had gone to the hospital after his wife Pabitrani Behera got into labour. However, following the c-section delivery, the doctor on duty allegedly sterilised his wife without his consent.

Separate teams of the I-T department carried out the search operations at the former legislator's residences in Keonjhar, ancestral home at Namibara and three-four places in Bhubaneswar, sources informed.

Issuing letters, the forest range officer, Ghatagaon range, asked the people of three panchayats namely Badajamupasi, Uparadiha and Kolitmati of Anandapur Sub Division not to venture into the reserve forest nor let their domestic animals go into the jungle. 

According to Pradeep Sethi, who studied at All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi, despite becoming a doctor in the national capital, he used to long for his village.

Soudamini Munda of Medinipur area under Ghatagaon block in Keonjhar district alleged that the doctor on duty at the Orthopaedic department demanded Rs 40,000 for the operation. 

“Under the influence of a prevailing low-level moist easterly from Bay of Bengal and middle and upper-tropospheric westerly trough, an increase in thunderstorm activity is very likely over districts of Odisha during next 4-5 days,” said IMD.

It is said that the people of both villages were at loggerheads over the demand to change the name of Orali chhak to Apanda chhak as it came under the revenue border.

Gone are the days when the mangoes grown in Telkoi didn’t get buyers and the farmers had to sell them at a throwaway price. This season, and in the coming season as well, Telkoi mango will be available not only across the state but also across the nation. 

Barik’s bike was also found parked under a tree just 150 meters away from where his body was recovered, sources said adding that, Barik was shot on his head from a very close range.

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Monday informed that the maximum temperature is very likely to rise by 2 to 4 degrees Celsius during the next two days.

The headmaster, identified as Narayan Senapati, has been arrested based on the complaints lodged by as many as 12 girl students.