Human resource development minister Smriti Irani will attend the fourth convocation of IIT Bhubaneswar scheduled today. The convocation will be held for the first-time time on its permanent campus located at Argul village on the outskirt of Bhubaneswar. The campus is…
The College of Engineering and Technology, Bhubaneswar will be conducting a DST-NIMAT project: Entrepreneurship Awareness Camp (EAC) of Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India (EDI) from 11th to 13th of September. The EAC aims to promote entrepreneurship as a career option among students…
IIT Bhubaneswar has introduced Odissi Dance as BTech Subject becoming the first IIT in country to introduce any dance form in its curriculum. The classical dance would be one of the ‘breadth’ course of maximum 12 credits during the four…
National Institute of New Energy, an institution for research and development of renewable energy technology, is likely to be set up in Odisha. Business Standard reports that the institute is likely to be established close to IIT-Bhubaneswar, at Arugul. The institute…
More than a year after Pravin Sinclair was unceremoniously ousted as NCERT director, HRD ministry has finalized the name of Hrushikesh Senapaty as her likely replacement. Senapaty is an old NCERT hand and currently principal of its Regional Institute of…
A daily wage labourer’s daughter from a remote village of Kendrapara in Odisha has cracked the coveted Indian Economic Service (IES) exam this year. Aparajita Priyadarshini Behera (24) of Mahanangala village has come out successful in UPSC’s IES examination ranking 13 in all…
Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Friday renamed Bhadrak district’s Wheeler Island after former President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam. “The Chief Minister has named Wheeler Island after the Missile Man,” said a statement from the Chief Minister’s Office. Mr. Patnaik hopes…
Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI) has appointed Trilochan Mohapatra, the former head of Odisha-based Central Rice Research Institute (CRRI), as its new director. The renowned agri scientist, who has been working in the area of molecular genetics and genomics, has…
New era for the Board of Secondary Education started with the govt’s order of E-application form for HSC exam. The Government of Odisha introduces online system for filling up forms for HSC examination.This year, 6 lakh 3,578 students would take…
Odisha based NIT Rourkela will inaugurate Lakshmana Rao Peri Centre for Advanced Analytics and Decision Sciences (LPCADS) at its Bhubaneswar Behera Auditorium tomorrow. Prof Mirsad Hadzikadic and Prof Joshua Hertel from UNC Charlotte, and Venkata N Peri and Amresh Tripathy from…