Cuttack: Orissa High Court on Wednesday adjourned hearing on a PIL challenging revised electricity tariff for 2010-11 till Friday. The court also allowed continuance of the interim stay order on the collection of the revised tariff from April 1. The interim order was passed on March 31. The two-judge bench of Chief Justice V. Gopala Gowda and Justice B.N. Mohapatra adjourned the hearing after Gridco counsel questioned the maintainability of the PIL. Bhubaneswar: Promoters of organic farming, farmers and civil society members of different districts on Wednesday met minister of agriculture Damodar Rout and minister of health Prasanna Acharya to express concerns over growing toxicity in the food system and demanded ban on uses of hazardous pesticides such as endosulfan in the food production system. The group urged the ministers to put forth the concerns before Jairam Ramesh, the Union minister for environment and forests, on his visit to the state. Paradip: After caste row over midday meal in schools, a government-run health institute in Jagatsinghpur’s Nuagaon block is embroiled in an unsavoury caste conflict. Female health workers from a primary health centre have allegedly shied away from vaccinating babies on the ground that they hail from lower caste families. A group of women in a complaint to the local health authorities charged that female health workers from upper caste refused to administer DTP (diphtheria, perputus and tetanus) vaccines on their children. Bhubaneswar: A 60-year-old man was allegedly strangulated in Saroi village in Jajpur. The deceased person has been identified as Kartika Mallick. His body was recovered from a cabin. Police suspect that he was strangulated over family disputes. The family of the deceased has filed an FIR. One person has been detained in this regard.
Thursday, 15 May 2025
