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Bhubaneswar: In a global recognition for “MUKTA” – the urban wage employment scheme under the 5T initiative, the Housing & Urban Development department of the state government is selected as one of the winners of the 2021-2022 World Resources Institute (WRI), Ross Centre Prize for Cities. The winners were announced at Prize for Cities event…
East Coast Railway (ECoR) general manager Manoj Sharma along with other senior officials inspected the railway developmental works in Cuttack-Paradeep and Paradeep-Haridaspur railway section and took stock of various activities in connection with traffic facilities and hassle free train operations. He also reviewed the developmental works of railways in Paradeep area. Divisional railway manager of…
Bhubaneswar: Robotic-assisted knee replacement surgery, which ensures greater precision and better result and is seen as the future of joint replacement, was conducted for the first time in Odisha at the Institute of Medical Sciences and SUM Hospital here recently. The surgery was conducted in the hospital under the supervision of Dr. Shekhar Srivastav, one…
Bhubaneswar: Nobel laureate in Economics Prof. Michael Kremer visited Puri and Bhubaneswar last week to understand the impact of Government of Odisha’s flagship programme ‘Drink from Tap Mission’. Michael Robert Kremer is an American development economist who is University Professor in Economics and Public Policy at the University of Chicago. A five-member team led by…
Manoj Sharma, an officer of Indian Railway Service of Engineering (IRSE) of 1985 batch has joined East Coast Railway as its general manager. Prior to the new posting, Sharma was working as chief administrative officer (Construction) of Central Railway (CR) at Mumbai. He has also worked as divisional railway manager (DRM)/ Ratlam in Western Railway,…
Bhubaneswar: The socio-economic impact of tropical cyclones and coping strategies of local communities in Odisha, with special focus on women, was the subject of a one-day national workshop organised at the Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan Deemed to be University here on Monday. The workshop aimed at promotion and dissemination of understanding, awareness, mitigation and coping strategies…
Tamil Nadu’s Minister for Sports and Youth Welfare Udhayanidhi Stalin, visited the slum areas in Bhubaneswar on Friday to see Odisha’s flagship development initiatives that are transforming the lives of its city dwellers. He commended the state during his visit to Ishaneswar Biju Adarsh Colony and witnessed first-hand the participatory slum improvement work taken up…
After making a winning start, Odisha lost to Kerala by 28 runs in the Senior Women One-day Trophy, being played at Puducherry on Thursday. Kerala won the toss and opted to bat as Minnu Mani scored 47 off 61 balls and Drishya I V 40 off 45 balls to take their team’s total to 210…
East Coast Railway (ECoR) general manager Roop Narayan Sunkar inspected the ongoing construction work of 16.31 km long Sunakhani-Parbil railway section of Talcher-Bimalagarh rail line project on Wednesday and took stock of various infrastructural works. Union railway minister during his last visit to Angul and Talcher area had given instruction to the officials to speed…
Subrat Kumar Maharana, RPF constable of Bhubaneswar Railway Station of East Coast Railway has been nominated to receive the Railway Minister’s Jeewan Raksha Padak for the year 2020. Maharana had saved a lady passenger who was trying to board Puri-Sambalpur Inter-City Express on February 15 2020. She fell down within the gap of platform and…
