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East Coast Railway (ECoR) general manager Roop Narayan Sunkar on Tuesday inspected the Cuttack Railway Station and took stock of various ongoing works. Sunkar also inspected Bhubaneswar-Cuttack Railway Section with window trailing and reviewed safety related and traffic facility works. During the inspection at Cuttack Railway Station, he emphasised upon the need and significance of…
After the opening ceremony on January 11 at Barabati Stadium in Cuttack, FIH Men’s Hockey World Cup 2023 will kickstart on January 13, with India scheduled to meet Spain in the opener at the newly built Birsa Munda International Hockey Stadium. The quadrennial event to be played in two cities of Odisha – Bhubaneswar and…
Bhubaneswar: Prof. Kulamani Parida, director of the Centre for Nano Science and Nano Technology at Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan (SOA) here, has been conferred with the Materials Research Society of India (MRSI) annual prize at the 4th Indian Materials Conclave and International Union of Materials Research Society-International Conference in Asia (IUMRS-ICA) 2022 held at IIT-Jodhpur recently….
Bhubaneswar: Four days after its 68th Convocation, the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, conferred its prestigious Distinguished Alumnus Award on Prof. (Dr.) Manojranjan Nayak, founder-president of Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan (SOA) here on Wednesday. Prof. (Dr.) Nayak was to be conferred with the award at IIT, Kharagpur’s Convocation held on December 24 but he could not…
Bhubaneswar: A three-month certificate course on “Sanitation Value Chain in Urban Odisha” for TULIP interns started here on Thursday. The launch of the first training module on Solid Waste Management (SWM) by Odisha Water Academy in partnership with Urban Management Centre (UMC) was inaugurated by G Mathi Vathanan, principal secretary H&UD. Speaking on the occasion…
Bhubaneswar: Learning in universities or colleges is important but students need to build enough depth and expand their knowledge to face the requirements of an uncertain future, Sahil Nayar, senior associate director, KPMG, said on Saturday. “We are living in an age in which disruption is the name of the game and the future looks…
Bhubaneswar: Odisha won three awards at the prestigious Annual India Sanitation Coalition (ISC)-FICCI Sanitation Awards 2022, held at New Delhi. Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) was awarded with the “Best Faecal Sludge and Septage Management (FSSM) Model – Urban,” and Sasmita Barik, a Swachha Sathi from Bhadrak Municipality was awarded with the “Women Changemaker in Sanitation”…
Bhubaneswar: The Centre for Ambedkar Studies of Utkal University on Tuesday organised a seminar on ‘Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar and Social Change in India’ to mark his 66th death anniversary. While discussing Dr. Ambedkar’s vision on social change, Utkal University’s Vice-chancellor Professor Sabita Acharya pointed out the relevance of his thought towards women’s emancipation in…
Bhubaneswar: Dipanwit Dashmohapatra, a former SOA student who played a supporting role in the Odia movie ‘DAMaN’, was felicitated by SOA Vice-Chancellor Prof. Ashok Kumar Mahapatra at the university on Tuesday. The biographical social drama, which featured eminent Odia film actor Babushaan Mohanty, depicted the relentless battle of a doctor and his pharmacist colleague against…
Bhubaneswar: A two-day men’s and women’s inter-college hockey tournament was held at the Biju Pattnaik multi-purpose stadium on the campus of Utkal University. Vice-chancellor Professor Sabita Acharya inaugurated the tournament and was accompanied by the Registrar Dr. Avaya Kumar Nayak and Comptroller of Finance Gautama Pradhan. With Odisha hosting the hockey World Cup next year,…
