Camp set on fire 

Bhubaneswar: Maoists torched a contractor’s camp in Balangir district late on Sunday night threatening people to remain abstained from voting. According to sources, a group of Maoists stormed into the contractor's camp at Kulhiamunda village of Rengali panchayat under Khaprakhol block of Balangir district and gutted three tractors, one backhoe loader and one steamroller. The Maoists threatened people with dire consequences if they did not boycott the panchayat polls that began on Monday. The Red rebels destroyed the camp as the road construction work had been carried out without their “permission” in the area.   

Body found

Bhubaneswar: Police on Monday recovered the body of a six-year-old boy from a well. A boy had gone missing since February 6 in Salepali village in Tusra police station limits in Balangir. According to sources, the boy, identified as Dinesh Pradhan of Salepali village, had gone missing since February 6. As the family could not trace his whereabouts despite a continuous search operation, the father of the boy had lodged a complaint at Tusra police station on February 10. The police on Monday morning found the body of the boy inside a well on the outskirts of Salepali village.

Diabetes meet

Bhubaneswar: Apollo Sugar organised its second annual endocrine and diabetes update programme in the city on Monday. The objective of the conference was to discuss various clinical and management issues of common endocrinology and diabetes related problems. Endocrine Society of Odisha president P.K. Mishra inaugurated the conference. Several members of the society including A.K. Baliarsingh, organising secretary Sambit Das, and CEO Apollo Hospital (Odisha and Chhattisgarh) Sudhir Diggikar threw light on the topic.