Jagdev -"the conqueror"

Bhubaneswar, May 11: Odia girl Sagarika Nath came off with flying colours in the recently announced Civil Service Examination 2015 conducted by Union Public Service Commission (UPSC). She has secured 199th rank in the merit list and selected for the prestigious Indian Police Service (IPS). File photo: Sagarika Nath The Civil Services Examination (CSE) is a nationwide competitive examination in India conducted by the Union Public Service Commission for recruitment to various Civil Services of the Government of India, including Indian Administrative Service (IAS), Indian Foreign Service (IFS), Indian Police Service (IPS), Indian Revenue Service (IRS), among others. This year 1078 candidates have been selected for different Civil Services posts including 180 IAS, 45 IFS and 150 IPS posts. Daughter of Pradeep Kumar Nath and Smt. Kalpana Nath, the proud girl Sagarika had her schooling at DPS (NALCO) Angul and DPS (NALCO) Damanjodi and passed her engineering degree in Elec...

Rourkela: The 3-day 2 nd International Conference on Communication, Computing and Security (ICCCS)-2012 organised by the Department of Computer Science & Engineering of the Institute concluded today at NIT, Rourkela. The conference sponsored by the Department of Information Technology, Government of India provided a common platform for experts from industry and academic to share their knowledge for promoting research and developing relevant technologies. As many as 514 research articles from 11 countries were received. 124 were presented during the conference. About 150 delegates from India and abroad participated in the conference. The conference aimed at bringing together academic scientists, professors, research scholars and students to share and disseminate information on scientific research related to communication, computing and security. The conference also deliberated the practical challenges encountered and solutions adopted. Two experts from abroa...

Rourkela: A three-day International conference titled ‘2 nd International Conference on Communication, Computing and Security (ICCCS)-2012’ is being organized by the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of National Institute of Technology (NIT), Rourkela from tomorrow and will continue till 08 th October 2012. The conference will be inaugurated in the Bhubaneswar Behera Auditorium. The inauguration function will be presided over by the Director of the institute. The chief guest of the function will be B Yegnarayana, Professor and Microsoft Chair, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad. The objective of the conference is to bring together academic scientists, professors, research scholars and students to share and disseminate information on knowledge and scientific research work related to communication, computing and security to discuss the practical challenges encountered, and solutions adopted. The conference would provide the partici...

Rourkela: The Steel City joined the nation in celebrating the 143 rd birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi today. A grand function was organized by the Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) and the District Administration, Rourkela at Civic Centre here to mark the occasion. Eminent personalities, including RSP CEO, G S Prasad; Rourkela Sub-Collector, S Mishra; president of city-based philanthropic organization Deepika Mahila Sanghati, Manjari Prasad; and State Government officials and other eminent citizens of the Steel City were present on this occasion. The celebration began with the mellifluous rendering of Mahatma Gandhi’s favourite prayer, ‘ Baishnaba Janato ….’ by Ashalata Sarangi, an eminent singer of the City. An all-religion prayer meeting was also held to mark the occasion. The celebrations concluded with the collective reciting of Bapuji’s favourite Ramdhun ‘ Raghupati Raghav Raja Ram …. Pati Tapabana Sita Ram ….’ The ambience of devotion, duty and serenity created b...

Rourkela: Different sports organization of the Steel City today observed National Sports Day on organizing different events. Celebrating this Day Chandrasekhar Sports Organisation (CSO) of Rourkela has organized a felicitation programme at Sector-4 in local Dak Bungalow here.  Being the Chief Guest of this occasion Michael Kindo, Former Indian Hocker player and Olympics bronze medal winner felicitated Hockey player Birendra Lakra of Gurundia village of Sundargarh districts.  Kindo told that the numbers of Odisha Hockey player are less this time in Indian squad in Olympics 2012. He further said day by day the players are getting less in number from Sundargarh district as it was earlier. The district administration as well as Rourkela Steel authority should provide basic facilities to the players in order to increase its number to represent in national and in international level, he added. Ananda Mohanty, BJD leader praising CSO for promoting sports in and aroun...

Rourkela: Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) celebrated ‘National Sports Day’, which is also the birthday of hockey legend Dhyan Chand, amidst fun and festivity at Biju Patnaik Hockey Stadium here yesterday. The programme commenced with the offering of floral tributes to Dhyan Chand by chief guest Dr. S K Mishra, Director in charge (M&HS); senior officers of RSP and Sports department, eminent sportspersons and the sports lovers of the Steel City. Highlighting the importance of sports in human life, Dr. Mishra exhorted the students to pursue sporting activities in order to maintain a sound physical and mental health. He elaborated at length on Dhyan Chand’s immense contribution to Indian hockey. He also spoke in detail on how the sportspersons of the region have carved niche for themselves in the sporting firmament of the country. Former Olympian Michael Kindo was felicitated by the Sports department on this occasion. Prizes were also presented to the winners of the essay and ...

Where, festival is not for amusement or entertainment but to unite unique souls of the nation with a purpose for promoting peace, love and harmony among communities with a sense of Indianness and this festival is one and unique of its kind in the country is Known as ‘Pledge Festival’ which will be organized on January 21 at 10 AM across the country.            “We the people of India today               Do solemnly pledge ourselves                  To the service of our nation                    With honesty, sincerity and commitment;                       Always keeping our nation’s ...