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…
Cuttack: Sovan S Swain took a five-wicket haul and Raghunath Malla scored an unbeaten 92 off 94 balls as BBSR-A thrashed ECORSA by 10 wickets in a 1st phase league game (Diamond A, B) of Kalahandi Cup 2024 on Sunday. Played across different venues in Cuttack as one-day format, the first day of Kalahandi Cup…
Bhubaneswar: The SOA National Institute of Law (SNIL), faculty of law at Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan (SOA), recently organised a day-long event titled ‘SOA Lex Concilium-2024’ aimed at guiding students towards promising employment prospects. Addressing the students, SOA vice-chancellor Prof Pradipta Kumar Nanda highlighted SNIL’s achievement of being ranked 8th nationally in the prestigious National Institutional…
Bhubaneswar: Manoj Kumar Parida, former chief secretary in the Government of Puducherry, stressed the importance of continuous learning for students to thrive in a competitive world. Speaking at the inaugural programme of ‘Convergence-2024’, the two-day annual B-School Meet and cultural extravaganza at the Institute of Business and Computer Studies (IBCS), part of Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan…
New Delhi: In a move aimed at enhancing service conditions and addressing stagnation concerns, union minister of Communications, Railways, and Electronics & Information Technology, Ashwini Vaishnaw, introduced a financial upgradation scheme for over 2.56 lakh Gramin Dak Sevaks (GDSs) employed in the Department of Posts. The Gramin Dak Sevaks are pivotal in the Department of…
