Bhubaneswar: Nawarangpur MP Pradeep Majhi on Thursday called off his seven-day-long protest as Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee president Jaydev Jena met him and assured that the party would take up his cause. Majhi was staging a demonstration demanding immediate halt to police atrocities on tribals.
Modi visit
Bhubaneswar: BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi will come to the state on a one-day visit on March 12. He will address a public gathering in Sambalpur. It will be Modi's second visit to the state this year. Earlier, he had addressed a rally in Bhubaneswar. In another development, more than 2,000 office bearers of the BJP met and deliberated on the party’s strategy for the general elections.
Wildlife crime
Bhubaneswar: Crime branch on Thursday took up investigation of three cases of elephant poaching reported in Bamra wildlife division and Sambalpur forest division. A special investigating team has been constituted to this effect. The team shall investigate all the cases in a comprehensive manner to establish inter-state linkages of the crime. It will also focus on the organised nature of wildlife crime and seek to establish the identity of the involved accused persons.
