Journalists protest scribe’s murder in Ganjam

BHUBANESWAR: Journalists working in different media houses in the city on Wednesday unitedly protested the brutal murder of young journalist Tarun Kumar Acharya near Khallikote police station in Ganjam district on Tuesday night. 

The journalists staged demonstration in front of the State Secretariat flaunting placards demanding immediate arrest of the accused involved in the murder case. They also demanded compensation to the family members of the deceased.  

The mediapersons condemning the heinous attack said the State Government should protect the representatives of the fourth pillar of the Constitution. Criticising the police the scribes said, “It is very unfortunate that the journalist was killed near the police station.”

Meanwhile, different journalists unions in Ganjam and other parts of the State protested the murder of Acharya. National Union of Journalists (NUJ) vice president Prasanna Mohanty demanded Crime Branch probe into the murder of the scribe.

Journalist killed in Ganjam

BRAHMAPUR: In a daring act, some unidentified miscreants brutally killed a young journalist near Khallikote police station on the outskirts of the Khallikote town in Ganjam district on Tuesday night.

According to reports, Tarun Kumar Acharya (35) of Bikrampur, about 15 km away from Khallikote, was attacked with sharp weapons by some miscreants at a lonely place near Khallikote police station and Excise office at around 10.30 pm on Tuesday when he was returning to his village. 

After getting information from the locals, the police reached the spot and Tarun’s body lying in a pool of blood with his throat slit open. 

Sources said, Tarun, who was working as a stringer for a television news channel, had written a report against some influential persons for creating nuisance in their area. The miscreants might have killed the scribe to take revenge of that report, added the sources. 

The reason behind the murder of the young reporter or the identity of the assailants is not known yet. Police have launched a massive manhunt to nab the killers.

Girls outshine boys in CBSE Class XII exams

BHUBANESWAR: Around 86.25 per cent of the students in the Bhubaneswar zone, who appeared the CBSE Class XII exams 1014, have come out with success. The results were declared on Wednesday.

Girls have outshone boys in the exams. While 89.92 per cent of the girls have cleared the exams, the boys pass percentage stands at 83.44. Total 16,383 out of 18,725 girl students have passed the test, CBSE sources said. 

In Bhubaneswar Zone, a total of 42,500 students had appeared the examinations of which 10,500 are from Odisha, 14,000 from Chhattisgarh and 18,000 from West Bengal.

The Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas together have recorded a 98.58 per cent result, the best performance in the Bhubaneswar region, while the Kendriya Vidayalayas’ pass percentage stood at 96.07 per cent. Around 85.48 per cent students of private or independent schools have cleared the exams.

List of Ministers of India selected by PM Narendra Modi

Prime Minister

Narendra Modi

Personnel, public grievances and pensions, department of atomic energy, department of space, all important policy issues and other portfolios not allocated to any minister

Cabinet Ministers	Portfolio
Rajnath Singh	Home affairs
Sushma Swaraj	External affairs, overseas Indian affairs
Arun Jaitley	Finance, corporate affairs, defence
M Venkaiah Naidu	Urban development, housing and urban poverty alleviation, parliamentary affairs
Nitin Gadkari	Road transport and highways, shipping
D V Sadananda Gowda	Railways
Uma Bharati	Water resources, river development and Ganga rejuvenation
Najma A Heptulla	Minority affairs
Gopinathrao Munde	Rural development, panchayati raj, drinking water and sanitation
Ram Vilas Paswan	Consumer affairs, food and public distribution
Kalraj Mishra	Micro, small and medium enterprises
Maneka Gandhi	Women and child development
Ananth Kumar	Chemicals and fertilizers
Ravi Shankar Prasad	Communications and information technology, law and justice
Ashok Gajapathi Raju Pusapati	Civil aviation
Anant Geete	Heavy industries and public enterprises
Harsimrat Kaur Badal	Food processing industries
Narendra Singh Tomar	Mines, steel, labour and employment
Radha Mohan Singh	Agriculture
Jual Oram	Tribal affairs
Thaawar Chand Gehlot	Social justice and empowerment
Harsh Vardhan	Health and family welfare
Smriti Irani	Human resource development

Ministers of State (Independent charge)

V K Singh	Development of northeastern region (independent charge), external affairs, overseas Indian affairs
Inderjit Singh Rao	Planning (independent charge), statistics and programme implementation (independent charge), defence
Dharmendra Pradhan	Petroleum and natural gas (independent charge)
Santosh Kumar Gangwar	Textiles (independent charge), parliamentary affairs, water resources, river development and Ganga rejuvenation
Shripad Yesso Naik	Culture (independent charge), tourism (independent charge)
Sarbananda Sonowal	Skill development, entrepreneurship, youth affairs and sports (independent charge)
Prakash Javadekar	Information and broadcasting (independent charge), environment, forest and climate change (independent charge), parliamentary affairs
Piyush Goyal	Power (independent charge), coal (independent charge), new and renewable energy (independent charge)
Jitendra Singh	Science and technology (independent charge), earth sciences (independent charge), Prime Minister office, personnel, public grievances and pensions, department of atomic energy, department of space
Nirmala Sitharaman	Commerce and industry (independent charge), finance, corporate affairs
G M Siddeshwara	Civil aviation
Manoj Sinha	Railways
Nihalchand	Chemicals and fertilizers
Upendra Kushwaha	Rural development, panchayati raj, drinking water and sanitation
P Radhakrishnan	Heavy industries and public enterprises
Kiren Rijiju	Home affairs
Krishan Pal	Road transport and highways, shipping
Sanjeev Kumar Balyan	Agriculture, food processing industries
Mansukhbhai Dhanjibhai Vasava	Tribal affairs
Raosaheb Dadarao Danve	Consumer affairs, food and public distribution
Vishnu Deo Sai	Mines, steel, labour and employment
Sudarshan Bhagat	Social justice and empowerment