5 4 $ !# %&!!5%!/6$"!# #,/5%!/6$"!#6 6363 9 '6,78 !6,4 : '&$!/ 7 7 . < < 7< +< 7+ 8 *9 :; 8'%, ""$%&$ ! "# $% %&"'&'&() * 3 &./0 $ %& ' 4 %02 #R 1 nearby village. The bus came in contact with the high-voltage BALESWAR: As many as 70 electric wire at around 1 pm passengers had a close shave and caught fire. when the tourist bus by which Getting information, police they were travelling came in %02 and Fire Services personnel contact with an 11-KV electric reached the spot and doused wire near Baliapal in Baleswar ( the flames. district on Sunday. Bus was on The injured persons were its way to Dagara beach in bus caught fire after com- admitted to the MKCG Baliapal from Baripada when it Aing in contact with an 11- Medical College Hospital here. came in contact with live wire. KV electric wire killing at least Three of them were later shift- Fortunately, the driver on nine passengers and leaving ed to the SCB Medical College spotting the wire immediately about 30 others injured near Hospital in Cuttack after their pulled the vehicle backward. But Melapatur under the conditions deteriorated. a motorcyclist who was behind Golanthara police station in Transport Minister the bus came under the wheels. Ganjam district on Sunday. Padmanabha Behera told While the bike was completely The tragedy took place reporters, “An Inquiry will be damaged, its rider escaped when the victims were return- made to ascertain the circum- unhurt. Only one occupant in ing home by the ill-fated vehi- stances which led to the mishap. the bus suffered minor injuries ore than 9,400 people cle after attending an Treatment of the injured victims and was admitted to the Baliapal Macross India are present- engagement ceremony at a is our current priority.” hospital. PNS ly under community surveil- lance following coronavirus outbreak in China. As of now, 1,818 flights and over one lakh 97 thousand passengers have P ! ! !1* 2 %'3 & been screened at 21 airports. " In India, universal screen- #$ ing for all flights from % Singapore and Thailand besides Hong Kong and China is over the outbreak of the virus, ()" * hree persons, including a already on at earmarked aero- official sources said. Twoman, were and six others bridges. The screening of pas- A total of 1,510 samples seriously injured when an SUV by sengers is on in all 21 airports, have been tested and 1,507 Union Minister which they were travelling hit a international seaports and bor- samples were found negative Dharmendra Pradhan also truck near Bairasar on the Balangir- der crossings, as per a statement except for three samples which xpressing profound grief expressed grief over the inci- Sonepur road on Sunday morning. of the Union Health Ministry. had tested positive already Eover the deaths in the dent. “I am deeply shocked to The deceased were identified as Meanwhile, concerned at from Kerala. The containment Ganjam bus tragedy, Chief know that many people died Pabitra Sahu, Tej Bag and the death of over 800 people in and prevention activities are Minister Naveen Patnaik and many others were injured,” Shakuntala Sahu. According to the neighbouring country due being taken up on utmost pri- announced ex-gratia of Rs 2 said Pradhan. reports, 15 persons of Bhumer in to the lethal pathogens, Prime ority. All the States are contin- lakh each for kin of the He hoped that all injured the Patnagarh area of the district Minister Narendra Modi on ually strengthening their rapid deceased persons. He also con- would be provided the best were going to Puri in the SUV when Sunday wrote to Chinese response teams to counter any veyed his deep sympathy to the treatment. Besides, he demand- the ill-fated vehicle dashed against President Xi Jinping about eventuality, said the statement. bereaved families. ed a detailed investigation into the stationary truck from rear. India’s readiness to provide The Indians tested positive Meanwhile, a team of the the incident. BJP State president While the three died on the assistance to the country to deal for the disease are students who Southco rushed to the site for Samir Mohanty and Leader of spot under the impact of the col- with the situation. recently returned from China’s conducting an inquiry. Opposition in State Assembly lision, the injured ones In a letter to Xi, Modi Wuhan city, the epicentre of the “Further action will be taken Pradipta Naik mourned the were rescued and admitted to the expressed solidarity with the virus outbreak. after getting a report,” said deaths and prayed for early Bhima Bhoi Medical College president and people of China Continued on Page 4 OPTCL CMD Saurabh Garg. recovery of the injured. Hospital here. R +,-, . -" , function and fitness supple- ments to overseas locations !"!#$""#%!#&' he Narcotics Control Bureau using the darkinternet facility, )*! %! +!,# #./&. . ! T(NCB) on Sunday arrested but later shifted to transacting he National Commission for %'#,/'%! #0#'/, the country’s first “darknet” nar- psychotropic drugs,” the DDG TScheduled Cast (NCSC) has !'&/%#$"!!#! cotics operative (vendor) who said. asked the SP of Kendrapada for %.%!##!#.#%$'#,1'#'/! $ "!! allegedly shipped hundreds of “A bachelor in hotel man- - personal appearance in the mat- ##! %/ parcels containing psychotrop- agement from Amity University ter of a Dalit RTI activist’s mur- ic drugs to offshore locations in in Lucknow, Singh had mastered der case. The NCSC asked SP "!#$$,.!%'$ . the garb of sex stimulation med- the technique to disguise iden- Niti Sekhar for personal appear- #! /#"!"$ ! $#, ""$%!#!"!/# icines. Dipu Singh, 21, son of a tity while making a shipment”, n a shocking incident, a ance on February 21 at the %!'"!#%.#!$#,!#/#! %$.%!#%!.$ retired Army officer, was arrest- the NCB said in a statement. Inumber of students of Delhi office of Dr Yogendra Paswan, %# !#, ed by the sleuths of the Delhi A total of 55,000 psy- University’s Gargi College Member, NCSC, for discussing zonal unit of the NCB from chotropic tablets that includes alleged that a group of men the murder case of Ranjan Youth and Student Council, therefore was in their target. Lucknow recently. tramadol, zolpidem, alprazo- barged into their campus and Kumar Das at Marshaghai. filed a petition before the NCSC Sethy alleged that the old During the searches, lam have been seized as part of molested, manhandled and Sekhar was asked to submit on February 1 requesting for parents of Das said that though 12,000 tablets of various psy- this two-month-long multi- sexually assaulted them during case diary and the latest posi- investigating the case. their son had earlier reported chotropic drugs were seized national operation that was con- the third day of their annual Woman (NCW) said she will had a huge security arrange- tion of the case, action taken The petitioner alleged that before police that his life was in from his residence. ducted with cooperation from college fest. send a team to the college on ment, including police, bounc- there on, including quantum Das, who was a Scheduled Caste, danger, police did not take the “Singh is a major player on international agencies, NCB A second year student of Monday to talk to the students. ers and even commandos along of relief provided to the next had drawn ire of many people matter seriously and provide the darknet. His listings were Delhi zonal director K P S Political Science on condition The team will take the matter with the teaching and non- kin of the victim. for filing RTI applications to protection. As the victim found in one of the biggest and Malhotra said. Some drugs ere of anonymity, said the incident with police also. teaching staff, on duty. No one Notably, the direction was expose many corruption cases, belonged to the SC communi- reliable darknet markets like seized from Mumbai and the took place “around 6.30 pm on However, a senior police came to us and reported any made following Haladhar Sethy, involving Government officials, ty, police are trying to suppress Empire Market and Majestic United Kingdom. February 6. “I was groped official said neither they have such incident. We were taking president of Orissa State SC/ST contractors, leaders etc and the case, alleged Sethy. Garden. He clandestinely couri- Darknet or darkweb refers thrice, somebody reached for received any complaint nor any rounds in the crowd. However, ered hundreds of drug parcels to to the deep hidden Internet inside my skirt and the prob- PCR call was made by the stu- there is no doubt that it was countries like the USA, UK, platform that is often used for lem was I couldn’t move out of dents or the college authorities very crowded. We were very Romania, Spain and some other illegal activities like sale of nar- it. I saw that a 30-35-year-old regarding the incident. “College vigilant but we couldn’t see any- # $% & ' European nations using the cotics, exchange of pornographic man began masturbating while principal Promila Kumar also thing of this sort.” “It is a seri- darkweb,” NCB Deputy Director content and the like using the looking at me, so I ran from didn’t inform us about any such ous incident and I will delib- General (DDG) (operations) secret and layered alleys of the there too,” she told IANS in a incident. If any complaint will erate on it. It is a matter of seri- Rajesh Nandan Srivastava said. onion router (ToR) to evade sur- choked voice over the phone, come we will take action ous concern, but unfortunate- ( + “Singh initially began his veillance of law enforcement Following the incident, accordingly,” he said. ly nobody has reported it to operation with shipping medi- agencies. Rekha Sharma, chairperson of Contacted by IANS, the me,” she added.