Two people were killed in a gruesome accident when a car they were travelling in fell off a bridge near Talakheta in Jatani.
According to reports, the mishap occurred when three persons including the driver were returning in the car from Jatni after visiting Ganesh puja pandals.
As the driver lost control over the vehicle on the bridge near Talakheta, the car fell into a 15-feet deep ditch. On receiving information, police and Fire brigade personnel reached the spot and pulled out the car from the ditch with the help of a crane.
Following the mishap the driver fled the spot, said sources.
The deceased were identified as Narendra Guru and Jitendra Nayak of Salia Sahi in Bhubaneswar.
In another road mishap, two persons died after a motorcycle they were riding had a head-on collision with a Bolero vehicle at Dulukibandha Chowk in Dharmagarh, Kalahandi district.
While one of the biker died on the spot, the other one died while being taken to a nearby hospital.
Sources said Suvendu was standing on the road when he was hit by a speeding car at around 6 PM yesterday. Following the incident, locals got hold of the car driver while he was trying to escape from the spot.
Irate over the death of the minor, locals blocked the National Highway demanding of compensation of Rs. 10 lakh for the family of the deceased.
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The road blockade was lifted only after senior officials including Loisingha Tehsildar assured to look into the demands of the agitators.
Meanwhile, two persons including the driver of the car have been detained while further investigation in connection with the incident is on.
The accident took place when the Government-run bus carrying 44 passengers was enroute to Bhawanipatna from Malkangiri. Sources said the driver of the bus lost control over the vehicle following which it hit a tree on the roadside.
The four critically-injured passengers were rushed to a nearby hospital while others boarded another bus to reach their destinations.
Meanwhile, after getting information, police rushed to the spot to take stock of the situation.
According to sources daughter of Raghunath Biswal fell ill following which the family members called a 108 ambulance over phone. However, the ambulance failed to reach the village due to poor roads.
With no alternative left, Biswal along with his relatives were forced to carry the patient on a cot for nearly one kilometre and later hired a trolley to take her to the ambulance.
"We have been demanding for a pucca road to our village since long. But the administration paid no heed. In medical emergency, we are facing problems in communication. The government should take immediate measures," said a villager.
Sources said that the officials of engineering department have been asked to complete the repair of roads by March 5.
At a high-level meeting chaired by Chief Secretary Aditya Prasad Padhi, clear instructions have been issued to complete the road repair works in the next three months and an intensive traffic awareness campaign will be launched across the State.
As per plans, people residing on both side of various under construction projects including four-laning roads will be informed about ongoing construction activities.
A special campaign will also be undertaken to create awareness among drivers and supporting staff of trucks and buses, informed Transport Commissioner, Madhusudan Padhi said after the meeting.
Padhi stated that the government has planned to constitute a State Management Group comprising heads of various departments, who will be entrusted with the job of creating awareness.
In view of rising number of accidents on National Highways passing through urban areas, the government decided to strictly enforce the traffic regulations.
“The traffic volunteer system will be implemented in four cities like Rourkela, Berhampur, Sambalpur and Balasore. Student volunteers will be involved roped in the system which will be extended to other cities in phased manner,” Padhi said.
The State road agencies have also been directed to share their design on connecting approach road with NH and such designs will be made as per the direction of NH authorities, he added.
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The deceased have been identified as Puspanjali Nanda, wife of Bonai forester Debadutta Nanda and their driver of the vehicle.
The mishap occurred when driver of the Bolero tried to overtake a speeding truck and the vehicle got collided with another truck coming from opposite direction.
Debadutta’s family was travelling to Deogarh from Pallahada. Debadutta and his daughter, who sustained severe injuries in the road accident, were rushed to the nearest hospital where they are now undergoing treatment.
Sources said, Kaptipada block development officer (BDO) Yudhisthir Nayak and an assistant engineer of Rural Development department faced the ire of the students of Nuasahi college, who have been demanding to repair the main road connecting Kaptipada town and Jadida village.
On Thursday, the enraged locals along with students of the college had sat on dharna in Kaptipada and demanded that the roads, which had developed potholes must be repaired at the earliest. When vehicular movement in the area came to a standstill and the situation went beyond control and the BDO reached the spot to pacify anger of the mob.
But the students took the officials under their control and insisted them to walk along with them in the muddy roads. Sources said, the officials traversed through the muddy road for about two kilometres.
The students who made the officials walk told OTV that the latter have assured them to repair the roads very soon.
Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik dedicated the fly-over road linking Satya Nagar and Cuttack-Puri road in her memory. The road was named as Saint Mother Teresa Road.
The decision in this regard was taken by Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation at the request of Odisha Catholic Bishops’ Council (OCBC), said Chairman Archbishop John Barwa of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar to BMC.
Pope Francis also officially declared Mother Teresa as saint on September 4.
In Odisha, Missionaries of Charity, the organisation created by Mother Teresa, has 18 houses.
She had first visited Bhubaneswar in 1974 and met the then Chief Minister Nandini Satpathy and Governor Akbar Ali Khan. Since then she visited Odisha several times.
Considered one of the KGB's most productive Western recruits - and Britain's biggest Cold War traitor -- Philby passed information to Moscow from the 1930s until he was discovered and fled to the Soviet Union in 1963. He died in 1988 at the age of 76.
Philby is still celebrated as a hero by the KGB's successor agency, the FSB, and Russia's foreign intelligence service, the SVR.
SVR director Sergei Naryshkin opened the exhibition "Kim Philby in espionage and in life" at the Russian Historical Society last month. It will run until October 5.
"Philby was able to do a lot to change the course of history, to do good and bring about justice. He was a great citizen of the world," Naryshkin said at the opening, where guests included KGB veterans mentored by Philby.
Philby was one of the legendary "Cambridge Five" spy ring of upper class men embedded in the British establishment who were recruited to spy for the Soviet Union during their time at the University of Cambridge in the 1930s.
Most of the documents displayed in the exhibition are from the 1940s and come from the archives of the SVR.
The British cables are marked "top secret" in red. Some of them have been translated into Russian, with one addressed personally to Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and his foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov.
One of the documents is a 1944 cable intercepted by Philby from the Japanese ambassador in Italy back to Tokyo about a meeting with fascist dictator Benito Mussolini.
Another reveals information on British and American operations in Albania in 1949.
"Thanks to Philby, all of these reached Stalin's desk," said Konstantin Mogilevsky, head of the Kremlin-backed History of Fatherland Foundation, which helped organise the exhibition.
"Philby was a patriot of both his homelands: Britain and the Soviet Union," said Mogilevsky, claiming "he never put the lives of his British colleagues in danger".
Mogilevsky compared Philby to Edward Snowden, who leaked details of US surveillance programmes and was later granted asylum in Russia.
"What Snowden did was not for money or to make his life better -- quite the opposite, he made it a lot worse. In that sense they are similar," he said.
"Russia has always valued those kind of motives," he added.
The exhibition also includes Philby's account of fleeing Beirut on January 23, 1963, after a KGB handler warned him he had been uncovered.
After telling his wife at that time, Eleanor, he would meet her at a restaurant for dinner, he escaped on a cargo ship headed for Odessa in Ukraine.
The children of the tribal-dominated village had died last year in the absence of medical facilities. The incident had hogged the headlines causing an outrage and the state government drawing flak from all quarters.
OFC chairman Rangalal Jamuda reviewed the progress of several social welfare schemes like ration, livelihood, agriculture, horticulture, education, health and drinking water facilities being undertaken by the district administration for the village.
Jamuda was accompanied by Jajpur district Collector Ranjan Kumar Das, member secretary of the Commission, Rajashree Mohanty, member Sipra Mallik, Jajpur ADM Bikash Chandra Mohapatra, sub collector Narayan Chandra Dhal and other officials.
He stressed on availability of potable water, pucca house, provision of land patta and education of the tribal villagers.
He appreciated the initiative taken by the district administration to connect the hilltop village with a motorable road.
"Though we have laid a motorable road up to Nagada hilltop, still lot of work needs to be done. The road would be later on handed over to the Road and Bridge department as per the instruction of the government," said Jajpur collector Ranjan Kumar Das.
The district administration has started construction of three Anganwadi centres at Nagada village and "three ponds will be dug under MGNREA to store water," Das said.
He said the district administrations was thinking of multiple measures on how to change the behavioural attitude of the tribals residing in Nagada.
"We are thinking of providing some training to the villagers to achieve this objective," Das added.