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Bhubaneswar: Odisha has won the PMAY-U Award 2021, for ‘Best Policy Initiatives by State’ under special category. The award was conferred by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri during a three-day ‘Indian Urban Housing Conclave’, held at Rajkot recently. Director Municipal Administration & Mission Director, Jaga Mission, Sangramjit Nayak along with…
Vigilance Awareness Week–2022 is being organised from October 31 to November 6 with the theme “Corruption free India for a developed Nation” and various activities like debate, essay and slogan writing and painting competitions are being organised to raise awareness among common people including railway employees and students. The Vigilance Organisation of East Coast Railway…
Odisha’s Srabani Nanda bagged gold in women’s 100 mtr with a timing of 11.55 sec at the 61st National Open Athletics Championship in Bengaluru. In the same event, Himashree Roy (Railway) won silver and Archana S Suseendran (Tamil Nadu) took the bronze. In the men’s 100 mtr, Odisha’s Amiya Kumar Mallick finished seventh. Meanwhile, Odisha’s…
Bhubaneswar: Surgeons at SUM Ultimate Medicare have successfully conducted surgery to repair Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia (CDH) in a newborn baby whose condition was diagnosed while it was still in the mother’s womb. The premature baby, who was delivered in the eighth month of pregnancy through caesarian section, was put on ventilator support immediately as it…
Union Minister of Railways, Communications and Electronics and Information Technology, Ashwini Vaishnaw flagged off India’s first aluminum freight rake at Bhubaneswar Railway Station. Vaishnaw said this is a significant milestone in India’s modernisation drive in mass transportation. Switching to aluminium significantly shrinks carbon footprint for Indian Railways. A single rake of aluminum freight train can…
Bhubaneswar: Wewer, a tech startup sponsored by the SOA Deemed to be University here, has won the Supernova Challenge in the Youth Entrepreneur category at Gitex Global 2022, the world’s premier tech and startup event in Dubai. The event was held from October 10 to 14. “We are eager to show our work to the…
Bhubaneswar: Voice of SOA Community 90.4, the Community Radio station of Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan (SOA), celebrated its tenth year on Saturday with SOA Vice-President Saswati Das recalling its splendid role in providing information and guidance during cyclones and the Covid-19 pandemic. Popularly known as SOA Radio, the station had traversed a long path successfully by…
Bhubaneswar: Surgeons at Institute of Medical Sciences and SUM Hospital here have removed a tumour weighing 7.5 kg from the abdomen of a 20-month-old baby boy recently. The baby from Ganjam district weighing 14 kg had a bloated stomach for about a year and doctors had diagnosed the condition as Neuroblastoma which required surgery. The…
Railways registers growth of 24 per cent in Reserved Passenger Segment and 197 per cent in Unreserved Passenger Segment. The total approximate earnings of Indian Railways on originating basis between April 1 to October 8, 2022 is Rs 33,476 crore, registering an increase of 92 per cent in comparison to Rs 17,394 crore achieved during…
Bikash Swarup Pati, a former Odisha Ranji Trophy cricketer and current men’s senior selection committee member has successfully qualifiedas a BCCI match referee. The BCCI had conducted the match referee course and exam on Sept 5 and Sept 6 at Bengaluru for identifying suitable candidates for induction into the panel of BCCI match referees. 14…
