Jagdev -"the conqueror"

Bhubaneswar: The low pressure area formed over the Andaman Sea has intensified into a depression over south-east Bay of Bengal and is centered about 1,050 km south-east of Gopalpur, according to the Centre for Environment and Climate (CEC) of the SOA (Deemed to be University) here on Saturday. Due to favourable condition such as Sea Surface Temperature (SST) of 28-30 degrees Celsius, wind shear of 5-15 knots and upper level anti-cyclonic flow, the depression is likely to intensify further into a cyclonic storm, Dr. S.C.Sahu, Director of CEC, said. Initially the system may move in a west-northwesterly direction for a day or two and subsequently move in a west-southwesterly direction, he said. Dr. Sahu said under its influence, light rainfall was likely at many places in coastal and southern Odisha that starts from November 12 to November 15 this month. Moderate rainfall could also be experienced in several places in the state during the period. There was als

Rourkela: Foundation for Technology and Business Incubation (FTBI), NIT Rourkela’s Innovation carnival 2018 will be inaugurated on Saturday by Minister of Tribal Affairs JualOram. Smart city CEO Rashmita Panda and internationally acclaimed fashion designer Bibhu Mohapatra will also grace the occasion. Professor in-charge of FTBI Rajeev Kumar Panda said, “To celebrate the culture of innovation, NIT Rourkela is organizing the Innovation carnival. This event aims to provide a platform to budding entrepreneurs to realize their startup dreams and nudge them to translate their innovative thinking into developing impactful ventures that would contribute directly to the creation of wealth and well-being of the society. Innovators, Eminent Personalities, Start-ups, students from School and Technical Institutes, Research Scholars, Representatives from supporting agencies, Industries, Quality Circles from various parts of country will be attending the event,” informed Shri Panda. T

Rourkela: Department of Humanities and social sciences of National Institute of Technology (NIT) organized a 14 days course on ‘Capacity Building Programme’ for the faculty members of social science on Friday.  Professor Bankim Chandra Ray, Faculty welfare dean inaugurated the event. Inaugurating the programme the dean said, “Any growth process should be the part of life and social science is that growth process which is becoming a very important part of life. I congratulate the department of humanities of NITR for organising such a wonderful programme on faculty development. Research and teaching is well connected. Without research teaching is not possible”. Programme coordinator Dr Narayan Sethi welcomed the particiapants as well as proposed the vote of thanks. Co-course director Dr Nihar Ranjan Mishra informed the participants about the glorious history of department of  Humanities and Social Sciences of NIT Rourkela. The programme is aimed at improving and upgr

Bhubaneswar: Odisha’s Director General of Police (DGP) Dr. R.P.Sharma on Monday handed over the insurance claim settlement cheque of Rs 8 lakhs to Manjari Majhi, sister of Martyred Sepoy Sanjaya Majhi of DVF in a simple function at R.K.Padhi Memorial Hall (IPS Mess) Cuttack. This is the claim settled by HDFC Bank. Handing over the cheque, DGP Dr. Sharma appreciated the effort of HDFC Bank for an early settlement of insurance claim. He also called upon the Bank officials to continue such kind of promptness in future days also. Sepoy Sanjaya Majhi achieved martyrdom while fighting in the line of duty on April 04, 2018. He sacrificed his life in a landmine explosion near Sakata village under Muniguda Police Station in Rayagada District. The incident happened during a combing operation in the locality. Mr. Debashis Senapati, Regional Head (Odisha & Andaman) HDFC along with other Senior Officers of HDFC Bank and Odisha Police were present in the programme.

Bhubaneswar: Based on credible information about presence of armed CPI (Maoist) group, anti-Maoist operation was launched on Sunday evening in Poplur – Kurmanur forest (Bejangiwada Reserve Forest) area under Kalimela Police Station of Malkangiri district by the District and State Operations Wing by mobilising two units of Special Operations Group. During the operation, there was exchange of fire between the armed CPI (Maoist) cadres and the Security Forces in Poplur – Kurmanur forest (Bejangiwada RF) in the wee hours of Sunday. Five (05) hardcore CPI (Maoist) cadres (03 males and 02 female cadres) were killed in this operation. Two SLR rifles, 01 INSAS rifle, one .303 rifle, one grenade and other articles have been recovered from the spot. The identification of the cadres, who were killed in this encounter, is under process. Considering the fact that Malkangiri district in general and Kalimela PS area in particular is considered to be one of the strongholds o

Bhubaneswar: Secretary Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) Durga Shankar Mishra and Additional Secretary and Mission Director AMRUT Shiv Das Meena visited the various on-going projects across the city under Smart City Mission and also reviewed the works at the office of Bhubaneswar Smart City Limited (BSCL). They also visited the Bhubaneswar Operations Centre (BOC), the command and control centre for the city. The Union Secretary of MoHUA also visited the housing project at Rangamatia and paid his respect to Lord Lingaraj, the presiding deity of Ekamra Kshetra, the ancient region which was later named as Bhubaneswar. The senior bureaucrat from the Centre reviewed the flagship missions of MoHUA, and visited the BOC developed under the Smart City Mission. The overall presentation of the Smart City Projects was made by Dr. Krishan Kumar, Vice-Chairman BDA and MD BSCL. Overall presentation of AMRUT projects was done by PK Jha, Special Secretary to the State Governm

Bhubaneswar: Leading Capital Goods (CG) producers from across the globe inked 38 MoUs with leading Indian steel companies envisaging reduction in imports of CGs meant for the steel sector worth Rs 39,400 crore by promoting manufacturing of capital goods in the country. The MoUs were signed at a Conclave in Bhubaneswar on Tuesday which was organized by Ministry of Steel, Government of India in association with Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and MECON. The National Steel Policy- 2017 envisages creation of 300 million tonnes (MT) of steel capacity in the country by 2030-31 as against existing 130 MT. The estimated import of plant and equipment, for reaching 300 MT capacity, will be around USD 25 billion. Further, for meeting the spares requirement, it is estimated that at 300 MT capacity level, India will have to spend about USD 500 million annually for import of proprietary and other spares. In his keynote address, Chief Minister of Odisha, Naveen Patna

Bhubaneswar: The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has started its public campaign in Odia against plastic by placing hoardings at prime locations to make people aware. Two radio jingles are also aired through three FM stations to take the message to more people. Soon a tableau will also roll out to intensify the campaign and advertisements in film theatres on restricted use of plastic and Swachha Survekshyan 2019 will be screened, for more and more citizen participation. The campaign aimed at making the Capital City free from plastic/polythene speaks about bringing own tiffin boxes, bottles and bags to minimise the burden of plastic on the earth as the non-biodegradable substances have created a threat for human and animal lives and the fertility of the soil is going down. In many cases the cattle population is also suffering as they at times are chewing the polythene/plastic along with their food. Burning of polythene is also causing many health hazards in t

Bhubaneswar: The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has started de-weeding the historic Bindusagar Lake in the wake of the Bhubaneswar Art Trail-2018 (BAT), coinciding with the Odisha Hockey Men's World Cup as the 1.3 km trail of art related activities are likely to attract huge tourist footf all between November 18 and December 18. International, national and local artists are going to showcase their best works during the art-heritage-culture interface, called BAT. The Division-II of the Engineering Section of BMC has taken up the cleaning of the historic lake, which is built around 7-8th Century AD and is with an area of about 8.9 hectares or 21.9 acres. It is believed that a dip in the tank before entering into the temple complexes nearby is auspicious and associated with religious sentiments of thousands of devotees, who come on special occasions. The lake is of 450 metre in length and 320 metre in width with average depth between 2.5 metre in summer and 4.5 met

Bhubaneswar: As the city decorates itself with a new colour to welcome Goddess Durga, the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has taken up several measures including the development of four immersion ponds (under construction), so that the festival will be safe and with minimal pollution. The sanitation agencies and sanitation workers of BMC have been asked to carry out extra cleaning work near Puja pandals to make them clean. Puja organisers were advised to use extra dustbins. The civic body has asked the Puja organisers to have restricted use of synthetic substance, colour and more use of organic things by so that there would be minimal pollution during immersion. Organisers were also asked to limit sound near Puja pandals to around 60 decibels to minimise noise pollution. “In order to make the people more aware during the festival season hoardings are being designed with   themes like public littering, restricted use of plastic/polythene, Swachha Bharat Abhij

Bhubaneswar: Are you all ready to hear the songs of Singer Sunidhi Chauhan, and then hold patience because the bollywood singer is going to host a show ‘Celebrity Night’ at XIMB, Bhubaneswar.   Xpressions , the annual fest of XIMB , one of the biggest Management-Cultural fest India, is a three-day extravaganza is scheduled to take place from 16th to 18th November 2018 . Last year Xpressions was graced by a live performance by Farhan Akhtar on the Celebrity Night. Performing for the very first time in Bhubaneswar, not just XIMBians, but also the whole of Bhubaneswar awaited his performance. It was a starry night, adding another feather to the cap of all the previous glorious Xpressions. Taking the promise of an even more entertaining evening, this year XIMB waits to host Sunidhi Chauhan on Celebrity Night, Celeblitz . Just 30 more days left for the grand event. Xpressions plans to reach out to the best minds of business schools to test their business acumen as well a

Vitamin D is perhaps the single most ‘underrated nutrient’ in the world of nutrition.  That's probably because it's free.... Your body makes it when sunlight touches your skin ! Drug companies can't sell you sunlight, so there's no promotion of its health benefits. The truth is most people don't know the real story on “vitamin D and health”.  So here's an overview taken from an interview...  1. Vitamin D is produced by your skin in response to exposure to ultraviolet radiation from natural sunlight.  2. The healing rays of natural sunlight (that generate vitamin D in your skin) cannot penetrate glass. So you don't generate vitamin D when sitting in your car or home.  3. It is nearly impossible to get adequate amounts of vitamin D from your diet. ‘Sunlight exposure is the only reliable way’ to generate vitamin D in your own body.  4. A person would have to drink ‘ten tall glasses’ of vitamin D fortified milk each day just