Dhamra deal with US port

Bhubaneswar: Orissa’s Dhamara port will soon enter into an agreement with the US’s Seattle Port to promote business. This was decided after Seattle Port chief executive officer Tey Yoshitani met chief minister Naveen Patnaik at the state secretariat. Information would be shared on the best practices adopted by the ports, cargo information and technology transfer.

Scam probe

Bhubaneswar: Orissa Pradesh Congress Committee president K.P. Singh Deo on Thursday wrote to the Union minister of food and public distribution K.V. Thomas demanding a CBI inquiry into the dal scam. The entire scam was going on with the full knowledge of the government. However, the government failed to take up any issues to arrest the problem. The vigilance inquiry on the dal scam was just an eye-wash,” he said in his letter.

Kids rescued

Bhubaneswar: At least 46 child inmates of Global Village, a shelter home at Biramitrapur in Rourkela, were rescued by Childline on Thursday. The children were allegedly living in an unhealthy environment where they were tortured and made to do manual labour by the staff members. hey were also not being given proper food, alleged the activists of Childline, who later lodged an FIR against the organisation at the Biramitrapur police station. The children were sent for medical examination.

Red menace

Bhubaneswar: Rourkela Police confirmed on Thursday that the goons who attacked the principal of a residential girls’ school were Maoists. On Wednesday, the rebels tried to talk to a student of the school claiming to be her relatives. hen the school staff protested, the Maoists assaulted them and escaped. They left behind a motorcycle, a pistol and a few Maoist posters, which have been seized by the police. he Maoists were trying to induct students into their cadre, said Rourkela SP Diptesh Pattnaik.

Cash loot

Bhubaneswar: Unidentified persons looted Rs 5 lakh cash from two employees of Bonai Cooperative Bank at Bonai in Rourkela on Thursday. he criminals damaged the vehicles of the victims, who had come to draw the cash. Then they snatched away the money and escaped on a motorcycle. he motorcycle used by the criminals has been located by the police inside a forest.