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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…
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…
