The Orissa chief minister and the Biju Janata Dal president Naveen Patnaik, who is now facing credibility crisis, on Sunday suspended Derabish legislator Debashis Nayak from the primary membership of the party.
Mr Nayak, who was once the most trusted confidant of Mr Patnaik, had recently made an explosive remark against the latter by saying that the chief minister never acted on his own and was being remote-controlled by the bureaucrat-turned politician Pyarimohan Mohapatra. Besides, he had raised objections to the BJD supremo’s style of functioning.
What apparently angered the chief minister is Mr Nayak’s remark that the chief minister and his advisor Pyarimohan Mohapatra was running the party by creating an environment of “fear psychosis.”
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Army kicks off summer wargames
AGE CORRESPONDENT
CHANDIGARH
May 29: The Indian Army’s main holding (defending) corps for the western frontier along Punjab 11 Corps (Vajra Corps) commenced summer war games on the plains of the River Sutlej on Sunday.
Given the operational name Pine Prahar, the four-day military exercise this year involves soldiers operating advanced battle technologies that exploit a networked environment backed by real time intelligence from unarmed aerial vehicles, geostationary satellites, ground based sensors and human intelligence. This is expected to assist all field commanders in battlefield transparency, quick decision-making and swift execution of operations.
The exercise envisages rapid mobilisation of units and formations to occupy defences as also practice offensive manoeuvres.
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Cops recover IED in C’garh, avert tragedy
age correspondent
Raipur
May 29: Security personnel on Sunday averted a major tragedy when they spotted a powerful IED buried under a road at Abapalli in Chhattisgarh’s insurgency-hit Bijapur district and diffused it, the police said.
A search party of around a dozen personnel of district force, anti-Naxal force of the Chhattisgarh police, was marching on the road in the forested village of Abapalli when they noticed a wire on the side of the road, which led them to the IED weighing about 50 kg, a senior district police officer said.
“The search team smelt fishy after they detected movement of suspected Maoists in the nearby area. Later, IED was unearthed and diffused by the bomb disposal squad,” he said.