y k y cm PROFESSIONAL DILEMMA INTERPOL NOTICE FIRST T20I TODAY Janhvi Kapoor says every actor is Interpol has issued a red corner notice against Team combination on focus as Virat Kohli plagued with self-doubt which self-styled godman Virendra Deo Dixit for and Co take on England in the first T20I in Ahmedabad helps them to do better LEISURE | P2 sexually exploiting minor girls TWO STATES | P7 SPORTS | P12 VOLUME 10, ISSUE 339 | www.orissapost.com BHUBANESWAR | FRIDAY, MARCH 12 | 2021 12 PAGES | `4.00 IRREGULAR by MANJUL TMC, BJP SPAR OVER ‘DRAMA’ TO GARNER ATTENTION 4 nabbed across Odisha for setting alight forest areas POST NEWS NETWORK Bengal boils after Dhenkanal, March 11: Three persons have been arrested for their involvement in setting re- serve forest areas on fire at Ranjagada in Dhenkanal district, the officials of the Forest depart- ment said Thursday. Among the We are from Income Tax department. RAINS RESTRICT three, Hrudananda is from We’ve learnt that you refilled a Mandiapada village under gas cylinder and a car tank... Mamata ‘assault’ Kankadahada police station in SIMILIPAL FIRES AGENCIES this district while the other two be- long to Rekuti under Telkoi po- Kolkata, March 11: West Bengal Chief lice limits in Keonjhar district. SHORT TAKES Minister Mamata Banerjee urged her After being tipped off, a special supporters Thursday to maintain peace team led by Kamakhyanagar Range and not do anything that would cause Officer (East) Satya Narayan Sahoo 2 ultras shot dead problems to the public. Stating this in conducted raids at different places in J&K encounter a video message, the Trinamool Congress in this district to nab the accused. (TMC) supremo said that she will again Sharp weapons, kerosene and Srinagar: Two militants were hit the campaign trail in a few days some explosive material were killed in an overnight even if ‘she has to do it in a wheelchair’. seized from the accused. encounter with security forces “I would appeal to my party cadres, In another development, Forest in Jammu and Kashmir’s supporters and common people to main- department personnel in Anantnag district, police said tain peace. It is true I was badly hurt last Mayurbhanj district arrested a POST NEWS NETWORK expected in the next couple Thursday. The militants (Wednesday) night and felt severe pain poacher while he was setting an of days, the chances of fire opened fire on security forces in the chest and head. The doctors are area of the forest on fire under Bhubaneswar, March 11: spreading in the park has when they were conducting a looking after me,” she said. “I appeal to Podadiha range in the district. He With the use of additional been drastically reduced. search and cordon operation everyone to maintain peace. I hope to be was lighting dry leaves when he manpower coupled with “Though the fire situa- Wednesday night in Kandipora back on the field in a few days, even if was nabbed. An axe, a gun and moderate rainfall, the tion is under control, the in the district’s Bijbehara area, I require a wheelchair,” Banerjee added. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee with a plaster on her left leg recuperating about seven kilograms of porcu- Odisha government has administration is on full a police official informed. The Banerjee’s appeal to her supporters at a hospital in Kolkata, Thursday PTI PHOTO pine meat were seized from his been able to minimise the alert to combat any recur- slain militants have been came amid widespread protests by possession. fire incidents at the Similipal rence of fire given that the identified as Adil Ahmad Bhat Trinamool Congress workers across the It should be stated here that National Park (SNP). As per major part of summer is and Zahid Ahmad Rather. n Six MPs of the TMC to meet EC They were affiliated with state. Meanwhile doctors attending to her GET WELL SOON, two days back, Sambalpur DFO Forest Survey of India’s still left,” Tripathy said. at a state-run hospital here said Thursday officials in New Delhi, Friday over Sanjit Kumar had blamed farmers (FSI) satellite-based report, Meanwhile, two out of proscribed outfit JeM. The attack on Mamata Banerjee operation started Wednesday evening that her condition is stable, but SAYS ODISHA CM for forest fires. He had said that peo- only five fire points were the three-member central night, but was suspended due she is having severe pain in her injured n BJP wants CBI probe to find out the BHUBANESWAR: Odisha Chief Minister ple with farmlands close to the reported Thursday in team is already in Odisha to to darkness. It resumed left leg. She will be kept under strict ob- real cause behind the alleged Naveen Patnaik expressed concerns forest were setting those on fire to Similipal against 24/26 probe the Similipal fires. Thursday morning and the two servation for the time being, they said. assault Thursday over the health condition of collect mahua flowers and kendu points reported Wednesday, Amit Mallick, IGF, National ultras were eliminated, police “The chief minister has severe bone Mamata Banerjee who is undergoing treat- leaves. However, in the process said Sandeep Tripathy, the Tiger Conservation n TMC postpones release of election informed. injuries in her left ankle and foot, besides ment at a hospital in Kolkata following an these fires were spreading to head of state task force. Authority (NTCA) arrived manifesto injuries in right shoulder, forearm and alleged attack on her. “Concerned to know nearby jungles causing huge dam- Tripathy claimed that the Thursday while Subrat neck. She is stable now but is having se- while the saffron party has demanded about the hospitalisation of West Bengal age to flora and fauna. Kumar had forest fire situation in Mahapatra was already here. Egypt factory fire vere pain in the injured leg,” a senior doc- a CBI probe into the entire incident. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. Wishing also annouced an award of `5,000 Odisha is totally under con- They both visited Similipal. tor at the state-run SSKM Hospital said. Claiming that the attack was a ‘deep- her speedy recovery and praying for good for persons who would provide trol. However, the FSI re- The massive scaling up kills 20 persons Banerjee suffered injuries when she rooted conspiracy to take the life of TMC health,” Patnaik said on Twitter. information about those respon- port contradicted his state- of manpower and infra- was paying obeisance at a temple in supremo’, the party leaders said anti- sible for setting forests on fire. He ment. It said that fire points structure in terms of en- Cairo: A fire at a garment Nandigram after filing her nomination. social elements have been mobilised Even though two senior BJP leaders had said that those found guilty will have increased in the state gagement of more fire watch- factory near Cairo killed at She alleged that she was manhandled and from the neighbouring states by the BJP –Tathagata Roy and Shamik Bhattacharya be prosecuted. in past 24 hours to 1,048 in ers, doubling of leaf blowers, least 20 people and injured 24 pushed by 4-5 persons Wednesday. in Nandigram to unleash violence. They – paid a courtesy visit to the hospital to en- With summer just beginning, comparison to the 597 re- massive community en- Thursday, officials said. It is the The TMC has blamed both the BJP and alleged that the ‘Election Commission quire about the chief minister’s health, forest fires have become a headache ported Wednesday. Tripathy gagement and 24-hour effort latest such incident in Egypt where safety standards and the Election Commission (EC) for the al- did nothing despite there being reports the party’s West Bengal president Dilip for the state government. Efforts also said that due to the of the field staff has helped fire regulations are poorly leged ‘assault’ on the chief minister of a possible attack on Banerjee’. Ghosh demanded a CBI probe. MORE P8 are being made to contain the fires. rainfall, and with more rains in containing the infernos. enforced. The cause of the blaze, which ripped through the four-story plant in Obour, POLL-BOUND STATES an outlying district of the greater area around the Opposition ready to No Modi pictures Egyptian capital, was not RAY OF HOPE immediately known, according to a statement released by the in vax certificates government. The toll is corner government expected to go up as 10 of the AGENCIES injured are in very critical POST NEWS NETWORK “The Similipal forest fire, irregu- condition. Factory fires are larities in paddy procurement at New Delhi, March 11: Pictures quite common in Egypt, due to Bhubaneswar, March 11: The mandis, deterioration of law and of Prime Minister Narendra Modi the lax enforcement of second phase of Odisha Assembly order situation in the state, safety will no longer be seen in the industrial and other safety Budget session will start Friday of women, children going missing COVID-19 vaccination certificates measures. In the past also and continue till April 9. During this will be raised in the house,” said in the poll-bound states of West people have died in infernos. session, the state government is Bishnu Sethi, Deputy Leader of Bengal, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and planning to pass the controversial the BJP legislature party. Assam and the Union Territory of Odisha Agricultural Produce and The ruling BJD however, said it Pondicherry. This decision was WEATHER Livestock Marketing (Promotion is prepared to debate any issue taken Thursday by the Union and Facilitation) Bill 2020. raised by the Opposition.