Jagdev -"the conqueror"

Bhubaneswar: Indrani Chhatria, a student of Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS), has been chosen the captain of Odisha Women’s U-19 cricket team. This is for the first time a student from KISS got captainship of Odisha girls’ Cricket team. Indrani will lead Odisha team in Under-19 Women T-20 Tournaments. Another KISS student, Sonali Hembram has also found place in the Odisha team. Odisha team will play their first league match on 14th October against Manipur. Other scheduled matches are: with Tripura on 15th October, Mumbai on 18th October, Delhi on 20th October, Maharashtra on 21st October and Arunachal Pradesh on 23rd October. The super league match will start on 27th October. Final match will be held on 4th November 2018. Congratulating both Indrani and Sonali, Dr. Achyuta Samanta, Founder, KIIT & KISS said, it is matter of pride that, two students of KISS have been selected in Odisha U 19 girls’ Cricket team, while one of them has become captain of the team....

Bhubaneswar: Nearly 120 mm rainfall within 33 hours of time due to the depression caused by the after effects of cyclonic storm ‘Titli’, has once again put the entire workforce of Team BMC on high alert and action mode, to keep the citizens safe. As per the Indian Meteorology Department (IMD) local office, while the city received nearly 97 mm rainfall between 8.30 am on October 11 and 8.30 am today, from 8.30 am till 2.30 pm today, it received more than 20 mm rainfall, causing water-logging in many low-lying areas. The helpline numbers of the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) received 37 complaints since last night and all were addressed. While through the Bhubaneswar Operations Centre (BOC) 26 complaints were received till evening hours, through BMC Storm Water Control Room 11 complaints were received. Since yesterday midnight 14 pumps were put to service at different locations by the Odisha Fire Services and BMC stationed its pumps at seven various locations acr...

Bhubaneswar: Lawmakers from India’s IT Capital Bengaluru were on a study tour to the Bhubaneswar Operations Centre (BOC) and the office of Bhubaneswar Smart City Limited (BSCL) and were happy to note the progress of various projects under BSCL. Bhubaneswar’s Smart City Proposal was adjudged the best one among the 100 cities from across the nation, for its citizen centric and child-friendly initiatives. Eight members of the Estimate Committee of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly (KLA) from the Vidhan Soudha, Bengaluru, along with seven officials under the leadership of Sri K. Srinivasagowda, MLA, Chairman of the Committee, spent more than one and half hours inside the BSCL office and also enquired about city’s command and control centre and how things would converge in future to integrate all city-level services under its umbrella. The members of the Estimate Committee of KLA including the Chairman, showed their interests to know more about parking management, adaptive tr...

XIM, Bhubaneswar, established in 1987, with a legacy spread across 30 years, has fostered an academic culture which has ensured that it maintains its standing as one of the top business schools in India. Over these 30 years, thanks to its pedagogy, XIMB has produced over 7000 alumni, some of who hold eminent positions across spectra of corporate houses. The fast-changing landscape of the business world requires quality managers who can adapt with ease. To foster the future managers of this world, XIM, Bhubaneswar’s pedagogy is not just rigorous, but also dynamic, to cope up with the changing paradigms of the business scenario. Instead of following the archaic managerial model, XIM, Bhubaneswar regularly updates its curriculum to produce some of the finest managers of the country. The academic rigour and the meticulous planning behind it have resulted in XIM, Bhubaneswar jumping to one spot above when compared to its previous year ranking. Currently, XIM, Bhubaneswar is ran...

Bhubaneswar: Students of the Institute of Agricultural Sciences (IAS), faculty of agricultural sciences of SOA (Deemed to be University), have spotted Spodoptera frugiperda, a harmful insect, in the institution’s instructional farm here recently. The insect, which has the potential to destroy over 80 varieties of crops, was first found in Karnataka in May last and was identified by the ICAR-run National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources, Bengaluru. According to Prof. Bijoy Kumar Mishra, professor of Entomology at IAS, the pest larva is known as ‘fall armyworm moth’, which flies long distances. Students had first spotted the pest in the instructional farm of  IAS which was subsequently confirmed to be Spodoptera frugiperda, he said. It particularly destroys maize and sugarcane crops and had already been reported from several states including Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telengana, Karnataka and West Bengal. It was first found in Africa in 2016 and had since f...

Bhubaneswar: Eminent artist from Gurugram, German engineer with Odia wife, IT professional from Bengaluru with family, Odissi dancers participating in Dance Plus reality show on Star Plus with their Guru from the city were among the 95 walkers, who took part in the morning Ekamra Walks Old Town Circuit and the afternoon’s Museum Walk at Kala Bhoomi. While 35 participants were there at the morning event including renowned sculptor from Guru Gram Arunkunar HG, who was in the city to take part in the pre-event familiarization before the Bhubaneswar Art Trail-2018 project, Odissi Guru Prabhat Swain from Nritya Naivedya joined with his dancers Biswarupa Dixit and Preetipriya Behera as the proud girls are the participants of the reality show Dance Plus in Star Plus channel and their episode was aired yesterday at 8 pm on Saturday. Biswarupa said that the heritage structures with poses or ``mudras’’ of ladies on their walls were once the inspiration to start the Classical dance fo...

Bhubaneswar: Electricity Distribution System has been very severely affected in the Severe Cyclonic Storm-Titli, in the Southern Districts: Ganjam, Gajpati, Kandhamal and Rayagada. In addition to distribution lines, four major transmission lines: Therubali-Narendrapur, Nrendrapur-Atri, Chatrapur-Ganjam and Rayagada-Akhusingh have also been affected. Various Teams of SOUTHCO and OPTCL have been deployed with required materials and equipment the affected areas for immediate restoration work.Govt. has instructed for intensifying the restoration of Power supply with the priority to essential service ends like Hospitals, Railway Feeders and Water Supply Points. The restoration work of 132 KV Akhusingh –Mohana ,Digapahandi-Mohana line and 220 KV Atri-Narendrapur and Therubali-Narendrapur transmission line has been completed by last evening. As regard to restoration of Distribution System in SOUTHCO, several teams have been engaged on war footing basis at different sites of ...