Naveen request

Bhubaneswar: Chief minister Naveen Patnaik wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday urging him to expedite the process to set up the proposed National Institute of New and Renewable Energy and Innovation seeking financial support from ministry of new and renewable energy. He wrote that the state government was ready to provide 73.86 acre for the project.   

Women held

Sambalpur: Police arrested two women for allegedly impersonating themselves as bank employees and collecting Rs 2,000 each from about 150 women with false assurance of providing them a loan of Rs 1.5 lakh under Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana. The women have been identified as Babita Bag, 30, of Bhoipali and Subashini Behera, 45, of Kansar in the Jujumura police limits in Sambalpur district.

Mahima bail

Cuttack: Managing director of Odisha Stevedors Limited Mahima Nanda Mishra was granted bail on Tuesday in a murder case. Justice D. P. Choudhury granted him the bail for Rs 5 lakh and two guarantors on the condition that he would not go to Paradip without seeking the permission of the Jagatsinghpur superintendent of police and surrender his passport. However, Mishra will have to remain in jail as the court of district and sessions judge (Cuttack) rejected his bail petition in a bombing and attempt to murder case.

Two drown

Jagatsinghpur: Two youths drowned when they were taking a bath in the Mahanadi river near Tarapur Tarini temple in Jagatsinghpur district on Monday evening. A fire brigade team rushed to the spot and launched a search operation. The body of one of youths was recovered from the river on Tuesday while efforts are on to trace the other youth, said a fire brigade official.

Three dead

Angul: Three students of a private engineering college died after their motorbike collided head-on with a bus near Hulursingha Chhak on the National Highway-55 on Monday night.  Two of the deceased were identified as residents of Jharkhand and one belonged to Angul. They were students of Adarsh Engineering College.