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Written by admin on 02 May 2012
Bhubaneswar, May 2 (IANS) Internationally-famed sand artist Sudarshan Pattnaik was Wednesday conferred an honorary doctorate by a university in his home state Odisha.
Pattnaik said the Berhampur University at Berhampur, about 180 km from state capital Bhubaneswar, conferred him the Doctor of Laws (LLD) degree at its 17th convocation.
‘I am very much happy to get this honour. I will always try to achieve more in the field of sand art,’ Pattnaik told IANS.
Pattnaik, 35, has participated in more than 50 international sand sculpture championships across the world and won many prizes. He has been doing sand sculptures since the last 20 years and running a sand art school at his hometown of Puri, 56 km from here.
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Written by admin on 30 April 2012
Bhubaneswar, April 30 (IANS) An outbreak of measles has killed four children and affected over 80 people – mostly young ones aged below five – in Odisha’s Rayagada district in the past week, officials said Monday.
The first case of the contagious viral disease was detected April 23 in a hilly village, located 90 km from the district headquarters of Rayagada. Later, it spread to three more nearby villages, chief district medical officer K.V.S. Chowdhury told IANS.
“Currently at least 84 people, mostly children below the age of five, are undergoing treatment. The condition of about 10 is critical,” he said. The villages affected by the disease include Salapash, Katraguda and Railighati.
One needs to walk several kilometres to reach to these patients as there is no motorable road to access these villages.
The villagers are mostly tribal and they don’t get their children vaccinated. The superstitious residents also perform religious rites instead of seeking medical help, he added.
The disease which mostly infects children starts with fever. Subsequently a patient also gets cough, running nose, blurred vision and body rashes.
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Written by admin on 28 April 2012
Bhubaneswar, April 28 (IANS) A court in Odisha has ordered a boy to clean the outdoor of a hospital for six months as he was found guilty in a theft case, a government lawyer said Saturday.
Namita Das, chief judcial magistrate at Bhadrak, about 140 km from here, awarded this punishment to the 17-year-old boy (name withheld) after holding him guilty Friday of stealing about Rs.20,000 from the house of a villager in August last year.
“The court awarded this punishment so that he could correct himself because it was his first crime,” lawyer Jatikanta Nayak told IANS.
Khudiram Sahu, a resident of Randia village on the outskirts of the district headquarters town of Bhadrak, had lodged a police complaint that Rs.51,000 were stolen from his house August 6, 2011.
Police arrested two minor boys after recovering from their houses Rs.20,000 and Rs.12,000 respectively. The court, however, acquitted teh other boy for lack of conclusive evidence.
“The court ordered him to clean the hospital outdoor complex for six months from May 1,” the lawyer said. “This is for the first time in the state that a court has given a judgment like this,” he added.
Citing the judgment, the lawyer said the boy would have to report to the chief district medical officer at Bhadrak who will supervise his work and submit a periodic report to the court on the implementation of the court order. “The boy has to clean the floor of the hospital outdoor complex every day,” he said.
Earlier, the Odisha High Court in September last year had granted bail to a 19-year-old youth accused of misbehaving with a young girl at a marriage function in the state on the condition that he would polish the shoes of devotees at a temple for three months.
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Written by admin on 26 April 2012
Bhubaneswar, April 26 (IANS) Maoists Thursday released Odisha legislator Jhina Hikaka in the state’s Koraput district after holding him captive for more than a month.
Reporters and photographers surrounded a relieved and healthy looking Hikaka as he came with a group of villagers to a mango garden at Balipeta, over 500 km from here, at about 10.30 a.m.
Emotions ran high when the 37-year-old Biju Janata Dal (BJD) legislator, wearing a green kurta, hugged his wife Kaushalya and seconds after both broke down in tears.
“We’re glad that he is safe and unharmed,” party colleague Baijayant Panda told reporters.
The leftwing extremists, who kidnapped Hikaka from Laxmipur in Koraput March 24, had Wednesday announced that a ‘praja’, people’s, court decided to release him after he apologised to the rebels and the local villagers.
A Maoist leader calling herself ‘Aruna’, in an audio message aired by a local television channel here, had said the decision to release him was taken after he promised to resign from the assembly and the primary membership of the ruling BJD.
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Written by admin on 26 April 2012
Bhubaneswar, April 26 (IANS) Maoists Thursday released Odisha legislator Jhina Hikaka in Koraput district after holding him captive for more than a month.
TV visuals showed Hikaka, looking healthy and relieved, walking into a crowd of people, accompanied by his wife.
“We’re glad that he is safe and unharmed,” Baijayant Panda, an MP of Hikaka’s party Biju Janata Dal (BJD), told reporters.
The left-wing extremists, who kidnapped the 37-year-old from Laxmipur in Koraput, over 500 km from here, March 24, had Wednesday announced that a people’s court decided to release him after he apologised to the rebels and local villagers.
A Maoist leader calling herself ‘Aruna’, in an audio message aired by a local television channel here, Wednesday said the decision to release him was taken after he promised to resign from the assembly and the primary membership of the BJD.
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Written by admin on 26 April 2012
Bhubaneswar, April 26 (IANS) Maoists Thursday released Odisha legislator Jhina Hikaka in the state’s Koraput district after holding him in captivity for more than a month, sources said.
Left-wing extremists, who kidnapped 37-year-old Hikaka from Laxmipur in Koraput, over 500 km from here, March 24, had Wednesday announced that a people’s court had decided to release him after he apologised to the rebels and the local villagers.
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