After Surat fire tragedy, Odisha Fire Brigade conducts surprise checks at coaching centres

Bhubaneswar: In the wake of the fire at an exam coaching centre in Surat in which 22 students died, the Odisha Fire Services Department on Monday started inspecting fire safety compliance in coaching centres in capital city Bhubaneswar and its neighbouring Cuttack. Sources said at least 14 private coaching institutes underwent surprise inspection by the […]

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Matric results out, girls outperform boys

Cuttack: Girls outshined boys in this year’s annual High School Certificate (HSC) or Matric examinations. Out of 3,97,125 students who passed the examination, 1,91,655 are male and 2,05,470 are female. The total pass percentage stood at 70.78 per cent as against 76.23 per cent last year. School and Mass Education Secretary Pradipta Mohapatra published the […]

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Matric results to be published on Tuesday

Cuttack: Results of the annual High School Certificate (HSC) or Matric examination will be published on Tuesday. The Board of Secondary Education (BSE), which conducted the examination, will declare the results at 9 am across the State, informed BSE president Jahan Ara Begum. Results will be declared at the BSE’s office here. Students can check […]

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Cyclone Fani: SAI Int’l School donates Rs 5 lakh to CMRF

Bhubaneswar: Students of SAI International School donated Rs 5 lakh to the Odisha Chief Minister’s Relief Fund (CMRF), to support the people affected by the extremely severe cyclonic storm Fani that hit the state on May 3 and created havoc in more than five coastal districts. A group of students led by school chairman Dr […]

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Centre extends JEE Advanced registration date till May 14 in Fani-hit Odisha

Bhubaneswar: The Central Government on Tuesday extended the registration dates for JEE (advanced)-2019 by five days till May 14 in the cyclone Fani-hit Odisha. The move came after Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik urged Union HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar to extend the dates at least by ten days. The JEE (advanced)-2019 to get admission into IITs […]

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Fani: Centre urged to extend JEE (advanced) registration dates by 10 days

Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Tuesday wrote to Union Human Resources Development Minister Prakash Javadekar requesting him to extend the registration dates for JEE (advanced)-2019 by at least 10 days in view of the devastations caused by Fani in Odisha. The JEE (advanced)-2019 to get admission into IITs will be held on May 27. […]

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CS’pur DAV shines at CBSE Class-XII results, records 100% pass in three streams

Bhubaneswar: Once again DAV Public School, Chandrasekharpur students excelled in Class-XII CBSE examinations, results of which were published on Thursday with highest school average and 100 per cent pass percentage. In Science stream, out of 365 appeared, 192 students scored more than 90 per cent and 50 students more than 95 per cent where the […]

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Cyclone Fani: Railways on tourists, students’ care

Bhubaneswar: The East Coast Railway (ECoR) on Thursday decided to run a special train between Puri and Shalimar in Howrah to facilitate movement and evacuate detained tourists at Puri and students coming for their educational purposes just a day ahead of the possible landfall of the extremely severe cyclonic storm Fani in Puri. This train […]

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KVPY: CS’pur DAV boy Jyotiraditya emerges as Odisha topper

Bhubaneswar: As many as 21 students of DAV Public School, Chandrasekharpur here have qualified the Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana (KVPY). Jyotiraditya Mishra has emerged as the State topper in Class-XII category and clinched the 14th rank in national level. The test was conducted by Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru under the aegis of Department of […]

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