Rainfall deficit

Bhubaneswar: Odisha has received nine per cent less rainfall this monsoon season with Balangir receiving 34 per cent less rain, said a meteorological department report. Sarat Chandra Sahu, director of the India Meteorological Department's Bhubaneswar regional centre, said the state should have received 1,150mm rainfall by now, but it has so far received only 1,052mm. 'Rain deficit has been recorded in nine districts of which three recorded deficits of over 30 per cent,' said Sahu. Besides Balangir, the other eight districts in the state that recorded rain deficit this monsoon are Jajpur and Angul (30 per cent), Dhenkanal (28 per cent), Sonepur (25 per cent), Bargarh and Bhadrak (24 per cent), Kandhamal (22 per cent) and Nayagarh (20 per cent).

Security

Bhubaneswar: Odisha police is mulling the installation of additional door-frame metal detectors to ensure full-proof security at the Jagannath temple in Puri, Director-General of Police R.P. Sharma said on Sunday. In August, a three-member team of the National Security Guard reached Puri and conducted a security review of the 12th century shrine, including Anand Bazaar, and held talks with officials of the temple administration and the police.