BHUBANESWAR: The capital city will have two more five-star hotels with the state government on Friday cleared eight new investment proposals with total investment potential of Rs 1214 crore. These projects will create over 2400 new employment opportunities.
These projects in sectors like manufacturing, plastic, food processing and hospitality were cleared by the state-level single window clearance authority (SLSWCA) headed by chief secretary Suresh Chandra Mahapatra.
The two five-star hotels, which received SLSWCA nod, will be set up by ITC Limited by investing Rs 141 crore and another by Falcon Real Estate Private Limited with an investment of Rs 120 crore.
Proposal of Britannia Industries Limited for expansion of its manufacturing unit at Khurda also got the state government’s nod. The company will invest around Rs 94 crore. The chief secretary-led panel also gave go ahead to another project by Sarvesh Refractories private limited for expansion its Sundargarh unit, that wil
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BHUBANESWAR: A spurned lover has landed behind the bars on Friday for asking Nayapalli police in Bhubaneswar to convince his girlfriend to marry him and attempted to set himself ablaze inside the police station when the cops turned down his demand.
Ajaya Dora (20), a resident of Ganapati Nagar, reached Nayapalli police station around 8 pm. He created a flutter and drew the attention of the police personnel to his bizarre demand, asking them to convince his girlfriend to marry him, else he would immolate himself inside the police station. Dora pulled out a bottle containing petrol from his bag and poured it on his body. As he was about to take out a matchbox from his pocket, the cops overpowered him and foiled his self-immolation bid.
The farmer leaders started the yatra from Bhubaneswar after paying floral tribute to Mahatma Gandhi at the Mahatma Gandhi Park on Friday.
BHUBANESWAR: Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM), an umbrella body of 14 farmers outfits in the state, has started 12-day-long Krushak Adhikar Yatra (March for farmer rights) in Odisha protesting farm laws and showing solidarity to farmers’ movement in New Delhi.
Commemorating the historic Dandi March on March 12, 1930, the farmer leaders started the yatra from Bhubaneswar after paying floral tribute to Mahatma Gandhi at the Mahatma Gandhi Park here on Friday. They boarded a bus to travel to different districts of the state and sensitize farmers about the harmful effect of the farm laws.
DG, prisons Santosh Upadhyay
BHUBANESWAR: The Odisha prisons directorate has issued a standard operating procedure (SOP) for jails to effectively handle emergencies like jailbreaks and escape of prisoners from judicial custody. A special joint drive would be launched by the police and prisons staff to recapture the escapees.
The guidelines have been framed in the wake of the escape of two under-trial prisoners (UTPs) from a sub-jail at R.Udayagiri in Gajapati district earlier this month. While one of the UTPs was recaptured, the other one is still on the run. A warder of the sub-jail was suspended for dereliction of duty. Besides, jail authorities had lodged a police complaint against the warder for allegedly helping the two UTPs escape from the jail. Notably, Maoists had attacked R.Udayagiri sub-jail in March 2006 and freed 42 inmates, including some Maoists.
BHUBANESWAR: Apollo Cancer Center, Bhubaneswar has performed Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) successfully on a 52-year-old woman patient recently.
This procedure was done by Salil Kumar Parida, consultant surgical gastroenterology and gastrointestinal oncosurgery, of the centre for the first time in Odisha.
Almost four years back the patient was diagnosed with Appendiceal mucinous neoplasm with Pseudomyxomaperitoni for which she had undergone cytoreductive surgery with HIPEC in July 2018 in New Delhi. The patient was on regular follow up since then. Recently, the patient came to Chinmaya Pani, medical oncologist, Apollo Cancer Center with complaints of abdominal distension for about a month.
After examining the patient and running all the essential tests, Pani found that the patient has again developed a recurrence of the tumour and he referred the case to Salil Kumar Parida for surgical intervention and HIPEC.