BHUBANESWAR: BJP national vice-president Baijayant Panda held roadshow and rallies in various panchayats, seeking votes for party candidate Ashrit Pattanayak on the last Sunday before Pipili goes to polls on April 17, even as the BJD made last-minute preparations ahead of party president and chief minister Naveen Patnaik’s virtual rally on Monday.
Large LED screens have been installed at Pata Sahanipur, Danda Mukundapur, Kumareswar, Rench, Bada Ankula and Singh Berhampur so that people can listen to the chief minister’s address as he campaigns for BJD candidate Rudra Pratap Maharathy in the bypoll which was necessitated following the death of his father Pradeep Maharathy.
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BHUBANESWAR: The Odisha government on Monday asked hospitals, both government and private, to avoid non-essential hospitalizations and defer elective surgeries in view of second wave of Covid infections.
A fresh set of guidelines issued by the state issued by the Directorate of Health Services (DHS) asked the hospitals to stop all elective surgeries while take up emergency surgeries with universal precaution.
Amid rising Covid infections, the government asked the hospitals to suspend central registration of patients, to avoid crowds in queue, for OPD care. Instead, it asked them to do manual registration by maintaining social distancing.
The government move came on a day the state witnessed 1,741 new infections and two deaths. The state has been reporting more than 1,000 new cases per day for past four days. The state now has 9,259 active cases.
The police said the accused had purchased gold worth nearly Rs 1 or 2 lakh from a store in Sambalpur, Puri and Jharsuguda each
BHUBANESWAR: The special squad of commissionerate police here on Sunday arrested a Bangalore-based MBA graduate on charges of cheating several jewellery store owners in the state by impersonating income tax (I-T) officials. The accused was identified as Vishal Rajkumar Nilenge (25). He was arrested from a star hotel near Sriya Square here.
The police said the accused had purchased gold worth nearly Rs 1 or 2 lakh from a store in Sambalpur, Puri and Jharsuguda each. “He would introduce himself as a senior I-T official before making the purchase. At the time of payment, he would insist on doing so online and would show the store managers a forged message of money debited from his account,” a senior police official said, describing his modus operandi.
BHUBANESWAR: Day after chief minister Naveen Patnaik wrote to his ministerial colleagues about performance review of various departments from May 15, the ministers said the move would help in strengthening and improving governance.
The ministers are gearing up to hold meetings with senior officers of their respective departments to prepare the list of important achievements of respective departments as asked by the chief minister.
“Performance review of departments is an annual affair as we believe in delivering what we have promised to the people. Whatever assignments have been given to me by the chief minister during the pandemic, I have delivered sincerely. I will present the achievements of our department,” labour minister Susanta Singh said.