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Students from various Schools of Bhubaneswar and Cuttack were felicitated by East Coast Railway (ECoR) recently, at its headquarters, Bhubaneswar. Certificates and prizes were given away to the students for their outstanding performance in on-the-spot essay writing, debate and painting competitions to mark Vigilance Awareness Week-2022. To mark Vigilance Awareness Week-2022, ECoR organised these competitions…
Bhubaneswar: A three-day national Dhara event, ‘Samudramanthan’, organised under the aegis of ‘Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav’ in Odisha to focus on the state’s glorious maritime history and create the Vision Document on maritime traditions-2047, kicked off on Tuesday. The programme was inaugurated at the SOA Deemed to be University here with speakers putting light on…
Roop Narayan Sunkar, an officer of Indian Railway Service of Engineering (IRSE) of 1985 batch has joined East Coast Railway (ECoR) as general manager. Prior to the new posting, Sunkar was working as chief administrative officer (construction) of South East Central Railway (SECR) at Bilaspur.He also worked as chief project director (CPD)/bridge work in West…
Bhubaneswar: In the men’s inter-college basketball tournament organised by Utkal University on Saturday, BJB autonomous College beat UN Autonomous College in the final. In the women’s tournament held on Utkal University campus few days ago, DR College, Nayapalli were crowned champions. Vice-chancellor, Prof Sabita Acharya inaugurated the tournament, where eight colleges took part and ten…
The selectors have picked two new players in the 16-member Odisha squad for the Vijay Hazare Trophy. Odisha have included Amin I Khan and Mushtaq Beg for the 50-over domestic tournament, starting in Mumbai from November 12. Squad: Kartik Biswal, Anshuman Rath, Shantanu Mishra, Subhranshu Senapati, Abhishek Raut (capt), Rakesh Pattnaik, Rajesh Dhupar (wk), Jayanta…
General Manager(I/C), East Coast Railway Sharad Kumar Srivastava administered oath to the officers and employees of ECoR to dedicate themselves towards preserving the unity, integrity and security of the nation and act on the vision and actions of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel on Rashtriya Ekta Diwas. Later Srivastava flagged off a bike rally for ‘Run for…
Bhubaneswar: The way several states including Odisha battled the Covid-19 pandemic and emerged successful must be documented for generation of evidence so that the situation could be tackled effectively if the country faced a similar calamity in future, Dr. K Madan Gopal, Senior Consultant (Health) of the NITI Aayog, said. Such evidence must then be…
Bhubaneswar: Taiwan is keen to collaborate with Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan (SOA) Deemed to be University for joint degree programme and enable students to learn Mandarin for enhancing their prospects for placement in Taiwanese companies. “We are keen to collaborate with SOA as it is famous for its medical and engineering institutes and set up a…
Bhubaneswar: Surgeons at SUM Ultimate Medicare (SUMUM) have successfully removed a huge tumour from the abdomen of a newborn girl, hospital sources said on Thursday. “The parents of the baby consulted the doctors after they noticed a swelling in the baby’s abdomen. The baby weighing 2.5 kg during birth also faced difficulty during feeding on…
Bhubaneswar: In order to make urban Odisha climate resilient, the Housing and Urban Development (H&UD) department organised a one-day orientation programme for the engineers of Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) here recently. Inaugurating the programme, G. Mathi Vathanan, Principal Secretary, H&UD department to focus more on various urban infra projects such as JAGA Mission, MUKTA, water…
