Showing posts with label orissa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label orissa. Show all posts

Thursday, July 17, 2014

#NoCountry4Women : Class 10 girl from Orissa sold in Goa for prostitution



A 16-year-old girl from Orissa sold to and raped by 12 men in 6 days, was later brought to Goa for prostitution.
Goa police has arrested seven persons, including three pimps, on Monday night, when they attempted to sell her to a client for prostitution at a beach side hotel at Arpora in Goa.
Neglected by her father, the Class 10 student’s ordeal began soon after she ran away from her house in Rourkela (Orissa) on June 19 to meet her Facebook friend in Cuttack. In Goa She was rescued after she made a call to Goa police control room. The seven accused (currently behind bars) brought her to Goa via Mumbai on July 9.The girl was kept in a farmhouse in North Goa before was rescued from the Arpora resort.
Inputs from local Media reports from Goa




Monday, June 9, 2014

Silk India Expo at Bhubaneswar inaugurated by Ollywood Actress Archita Sahu

Silk India Expo at Bhubaneswar inaugurated by Ollywood Actress Archita Sahu
“Hastashilpi” - Artisans and weavers welfare Association organized  9-days 'Silk India Expo-2014’ at The New Marrion, Janapath, Opp Ram Mandir, Bhubaneswar. Expo will be on till  15th June 2014. Ollywood Actress Archita Sahu Inaugurated exhibition. “It’s glad to see various apparel, particularly Silk designer wear, designers sarees, furnishings to be showcased for the first time in city’’ said Actress Archita Sahu.
 “Various Silk Saree Weavers, Handloom Clusters and Silk Co-operative Societies showcasing their products in exposition, The intension of the organization is to make accessible and attain the products directly to the customers, without the mediators’ to the weavers and artisans’’ said, Hastashilpi organizer  Abhinand.