Events
Bhubaneswar: With the earth’s temperature slated to rise by 1.5 degree Celsius by 2025 amid environmental degradation and increasing pollution, all efforts need to be made to protect the environment by desisting from activities which has led to the present situation, Justice B Amit Sthalekar, Judicial Member of the National Green Tribunal (NGT), Kolkata, said…
Bhubaneswar: A two-day training programme on mapping and developing urban water bodies was organised here on May 12 and 13. The Housing and Urban Development Department in collaboration with National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA) conducted the training programme for corporators, ward officers, municipal engineers, city mission managers and community organisers and trained them about…
Bhubaneswar: The teaching fraternity has a huge responsibility to mould the young people academically and intellectually while inculcating high moral values in them, former Odisha governor MM Rajendran said on Friday. “Character building is important as it helps shape a nation and moral values need to be instilled in students in the educational institutions,” Rajendran,…
Bhubaneswar: Students of the department of Computer Science Engineering (CSE) of Institute of Technical Education and Research (ITER) became overall champions in the SOA Cup in the competitions held in eight different sporting disciplines which concluded recently. CSE students won the kabaddi (men), basketball (women), table tennis (men and women) and chess (men) competitions to…
Bhubaneswar: Awareness about Lupus, a little-known ailment which mostly afflicts women of child bearing age, is the key to fight the complex disease, experts said at a rally held here to mark World Lupus Day on Tuesday. Lupus is an auto-immune disease which mimics the symptoms of many other ailments confusing both the physician and…
Bhubaneswar: Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan (SOA) has been conferred with the Social Leadership Award at the Women’s Business Mela organised by Women’s Entrepreneurship Council of Indian Chamber of Commerce which began here on Wednesday. SOA’s Public Relations Officer, Subhadarshini Mishra received the award from Bollywood star and former Miss Universe Lara Dutta. The five-day fair was…
Bhubaneswar: A three-day regional conference on ‘Universal Human Values’ organised in collaboration with the All India Council for TechnicalEducation (AICTE) concluded at Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan (SOA) on Sunday. More than sixty participants from different Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) of the eastern region are attending the conference. Prof. Ashok Kumar Mahapatra, SOA’s vice-chancellor, who presided over…
Bhubaneswar: Rupsa Nayak of Odisha has won the Mrs India pageant, the grand finale of which was held at Mumbai recently. The two-month long pageant, organised by Glamour World, had attracted around 200 competitors and 100 made it to the second round. Fifty of them qualified for the semifinals where they had to go through…
Bhubaneswar: The Housing and Urban Development Department Minister Pratap Jena along with Sulochana Das, Mayor of Bhubaneswar visited the Sewage Treatment Plant (STP) & Faecal Sludge Treatment Plant (FSTP) at Basuaghai here on Wednesday. They inspected the components of STP such as the inlet, screen chamber, aerated grit chamber, SBR, chlorination house, chlorination contact tank,…
The two-day orientation workshop for newly-elected Mayors and Chairpersons of Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) concluded at Lok Seva Bhavan on Tuesday with all the participants receiving certificates from the Minister of Housing and Urban Development (H&UD), Pratap Jena. Jena had interactions with the Mayors and Chairpersons on various urban initiatives. The Workshop was inaugurated on…
