HC no to bail plea

Cuttack: Trinamul MP Sudip Bandopadhyay, who has been arrested over his alleged involvement in the Rose Valley Ponzi scam, on Thursday filed a bail petition in Orissa High Court. The district and sessions judge court, Khurda, had rejected his bail plea on January 4.  

Rebels killed

Rourkela: Two People’s Liberation Front of India (PLFI) members were killed and five injured in an exchange of fire with cops in Sorada forest in Bisra police station limits in Sundargarh on Thursday. The police also seized an AK-47 rifle, 12 guns and pistols and live bullets from their possession.

Brown sugar

Bhubaneswar: Nayapalli police on Thursday seized 13 grams of brown sugar worth Rs 1.5 lakh from Salia Sahi in the city and arrested two persons. The arrested were identified as Aditya Rao and Mohan Sharma.

Graft raids

Keonjhar: Vigilance sleuths today raided the house of Champua forest range officer Bharat K. Ghadei in Keonjhar district for allegedly amassing properties disproportionate to his known source of income. The vigilance team conducted simultaneous raids on Ghadei’s many houses.