On Monday late evening, a health department team raided a "unauthorised scan centre" and seized a portable ultrasound machine purportedly used for foetal sex determination. According to the health department, RMP "registered Medical Practitioner" running the scan center was injured while running. Civil surgeon identified the RMP as R K Sharma was admitted in the hospital.
Ahead of the simultaneous assembly and Lok Sabha elections in Odisha, the government has undertaken a massive bureaucratic reshuffle, transferring 38 IAS officers, including 17 district collectors and the chief administrator of Shree Jagannath Temple Administration (SJTA). The transfer guidelines issued by the Election Commission of India for poll-bound Odisha have influenced some of these transfers.
The Ram Temple in Fategarh, Nayagarh district, was launched on Monday, the same day as the Ram Lalla statue is consecrated in Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh. The inaugural ceremony drew over one lakh people to the freshly erected temple atop Fategarh's summit. The pran pratishtha and inauguration ceremony were completed at 2 p.m.
In another accident, a speeding truck hit a two-wheeler at Ranital in Bhadrak district in the morning, when there was dense fog.