272 students get Tata Jyoti Fellowship awards in Kalinganagar

Solar lanterns and Tabs to meritorious SC/ST students Kalinganagar/Jajpur: With an attempt to support the education of underprivileged Scheduled Caste (SC) and Scheduled Tribe (ST) students, Tribal Cultural Society (TCS), a society promoted by Tata Steel, on Thursday awarded Jyoti Fellowship to 272 school and college students in Kalinganagar area. Arun Misra, Deputy Vice President […]

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NASA Prize for KiiT International School Students

Bhubaneswar: Zenith’s Labyrinth, a project developed by Grade 8 students of KiiT International School, bagged the second prize worldwide in the Space Settlement Design Contest for School Students organized by National Space Society of USA in association with NASA.   Six students-Aman Patnaik, Abhishek Mahapatra, Sai Krishanth P.M., Nitish Mohanty, Satwik Gadnayak and Saurik Mishra-had […]

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Sesa Sterlite observes World T.B day, launches RSBY scheme

Bhubaneswar: Sesa Sterlite under its HSE department has celebrated the world TB day by creating awareness among the students and as well as the AWW Workers and Asha members. The participants took out a rally from DAV Vedanta School to Vedanta Hospital with lots of slogans, placards towards eradicating TB.  Inaugurating the seminar on world […]

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Mayawati promises SCS status to Odisha if voted to power

Bhubaneswar: Bahujan Samaja Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati on Sunday while addressing an election meeting in Bhubaneswar promised that if her party form Government at the Centre after the general elections, it would definitely give the Special Category State (SCS) status to Odisha. Accusing the Congress, the BJP and the regional parties like the BJD of […]

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XIMB registers 100% placement in Xuberance 2014

Bhubaneswar: Premier B-school Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar (XIMB), registered 100 per cent placements in its annual campus recruitment drive – Xuberance 2014.   All the students of Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM) (Business Management) of 2012-14 batch grabbed lucrative job offers.  “Despite the prevailing uncertainty in market conditions and the ever-increasing competitions, XIMB […]

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Naveen among many senior leaders file nominations

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister and BJD president Naveen Patnaik along with many senior leaders of his party on Wednesday filed their nominations for the ensuing Assembly and Lok Sabha polls. After performing worship at Tara Tarini Temple here, Patnaik filed four sets of nomination papers from Hinjili Assembly constituency in Ganjam district at the sub-collector’s […]

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Samata Kranti Dal announces 17 Assembly candidates

Bhubaneswar: The Samata Kranti Dal (SKD) on Saturday announced the names of 17 Assembly candidates for the first phase of the elections scheduled on April 10. While party president and sitting Biramitrapur MLA George Tirkey will contest from Biramitrapur Assembly constituency which is reserved for ST, Sitaram Satapathy will contest from Titlagarh, Geetanjali Pradhan from […]

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Nagarika Samaj demands CAG audit of power companies

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Nagarika Samaj (ONAS), a civil society alliance, demanded a CAG audit of the accounts of the power distribution companies in Odisha. This demanded here at consultation meeting on the ‘proposed hike in electricity tariff.’ Panchanan Kanungo, former minister and president ‘Odisha Vidyut Upabhokta Mahasangha’ termed proposed hike move as anti-people and urged the […]

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