Odisha woman’s gratitude to a friend in need
The Hindu
Senior citizen bequeaths property worth ₹1 crore to rickshaw puller
Moved by the love and affection shown by a rickshaw puller and his family, a woman in Cuttack adopted has the former’s family and gifted him all her jewellery, land and residential building worth ₹1 crore.
When Minati Patnaik in her sixties recently dictated her will about handing over her property to Budha Samal, who had served her family for two decades, it came as surprise to her extended family members and neighbours. But, Ms. Patnaik had no doubts about her decision.
In 2020, the elderly lady faced two back-to-back tragedies when her husband died of cancer and her only daughter succumbed to cardiac arrest six months later.

“Judicial time is a valuable public resource. Every frivolous or misconceived invocation of constitutional jurisdiction results in diversion of time from genuinely deserving litigants,” said the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court while imposing a cost of ₹50,000 on a man from Theni district who filed a petition with an unusual prayer: permission to conduct daily protests till the ‘World War’ ends.












