Chennai: Virat Kohli became the sixth batter to score 12,000 runs in T20s, as he reached the milestone in the IPL 2024 opener between Chennai Super Kings and Royal Challengers Bengaluru, played at MA Chidambaram Stadium here on Friday. The other batters in the club are Chris Gayle, Shoaib Malik, Kieron Pollard, Alex Hales and…
Bhubaneswar: ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel India’s Odisha Operations recently commemorated the 53rd National Safety Week with a resolute focus on fostering awareness about health and safety among its workforce. The week-long initiative, kickstarted on March 4, 2024, witnessed active participation from employees and shop floor workers under the theme “Focus on Safety Leadership for Environmental, Social…
Gujarat Titans (GT) have added BR Sharath to their squad as replacement for the injured Robin Minz while Tanush Kotian has replaced Adam Zampa in Rajasthan Royal’s (RR) squad for the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024. Sharath, a wicketkeeper-batter, who represents Karnataka in domestic cricket, has so far played 28 T20s, 20 First-class matches and…
World Water Day is celebrated every year on March 22 to raise awareness about the importance of freshwater and advocate its sustainable management of freshwater resources. The significance of World Water Day becomes increasingly important in the coming years due to several factors affecting water bodies, including pollution, climate change, population growth and unsustainable water…
Bhubaneswar: Demonstrating exceptional skills in hotel management, students from the School of Hotel Management (SHM) at Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan (SOA) clinched significant victories at Odisha Skills 2023-24, the state’s premier skill competition held from March 12 to 15. The competitions included various hotel management disciplines such as hotel reception, restaurant service, cooking, bakery, patisserie and…
Bhubaneswar: Four students and a faculty of Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan (SOA), who represented Odisha in the 9th National Minigolf Championship held at Nagpur from March 3-6 have won six medals for the state. The Odisha team, comprising 24 players, won 22 medals with the SOA representatives winning four gold and two bronze medals. Altogether 18…
Bhubaneswar: The 51st Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Indoor Final Tournament-2024, held at the CSIR-Institute of Minerals and Materials Technology (CSIR-IMMT), concluded recently. Mahendra Kumar Gupta, joint secretary (Admin), CSIR, attended the occasion as the chief guest, accompanied by Dr Debashish Dash, director of Institute of Life Sciences, Bhubaneswar and G Yadav, chief engineer of BSNL, as…
Cuttack: The Cuttack District Annual Athletics Meet 2024 is scheduled to take place on April 20 and 21, at Satyabrata Stadium here. The meet will see aspiring athletes compete across various age groups, including men, women, boys and girls under 23, 20, 18, 16 and 14 years of age. Also read: Cuttack District Athletic Association…
Cuttack: The Cuttack District Athletic Association has announced to organise ‘Gana Dauda’ on the occasion of Utkal Divas (April 1) on Monday at 7:00am. The event will kick off from Killa Fort, here, following a predetermined route. Participants across different age groups are invited to join in the race. Below 12-year-olds as of April 1,…
Cuttack: ECORSA bounced back to winning ways in their second match of Kalahandi Cup 2024 as they thrashed Sundargarh by 154 runs at MGM Sports Ground on Monday. Also read: Swain takes five as BBSR-A thrash ECORSA Put in to bat, ECORSA put up a huge total of 331 runs in 49.4 overs with Abhishek…
