New Odisha Age

Rise in Vaccination rates fuel inter-state travel; Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune among Top Destinations

Hyderabad : AbhiBus, a leading online bus travel aggregator has witnessed a surge in demand since June, as many states relax their lockdown restrictions. The company witnessed 60% surge in demand with more than 4,50,000 bus bookings in the 5 weeks since June. Rising vaccination rates and lifting of lockdown restrictions across states have fueled…

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Hostels for Students of Classes X & XII in Odisha are Ready to Reopen From July 26

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government on Wednesday has made an announcement to reopen hostels for Classes X and XII students from July 26 under its various departments. In consideration to COVID-19, the School and Mass Education Department has issued a notification phrasing a standard operating procedure (SOP) for the reopening of the hostels. According to the…

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Wipro commitment to investing $1 billionfor FullStride Cloud Services

Bhubaneswar: Wipro Limited, a leading international information technology, consulting, and business process Services Company, announced the launch of Wipro FullStride Cloud Services and a commitment to invest $1 billion over the next three years in cloud technologies capabilities, acquisitions, and partnerships. Wipro FullStride Cloud Services brings together the complete spectrum of Wipro’s cloud-related skills, products,…

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Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM), a Mou IBM signs with Odisha Government for Girls

Bhubaneswar: Government of Odisha has established a ‘state-model’ of IBM and Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education for female students in 258 schools across the state. The IBM-STEM state model aims to enhance females’ capability in digital literacy, job choice, and life skills. According to a report published by the Chief Minister’s office, the…

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DRDO effectively flight-tests indigenously developed MPATGM targeting short-range missions

Bhubaneswar: The successful test flight of the missile provided a significant boost to the Narendra Modi government’s Atmanirbhar Bharat program and would reinforce the Indian Army, according to the DRDO. The Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO) successfully flight tested an indigenously designed low weight, fire and forget Man-Portable Anti-Tank Guided Missile on Wednesday (MPATGM)…

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Bank of Baroda felicitates COVID warriors on 114th Foundation Day

Mumbai : Bank of Baroda, one of the country’s largest public sector banks, celebrated its 114th Foundation Day on 20th July 2021 by felicitating COVID warriors across all the 18 zones of the bank pan-India. Each of the zones identified employees who had served the society during the pandemic and showed exemplary courage, passion and dedication…

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Odisha Allocated Rs 218 Cr to Promote Online Education

Bhubaneswar: The central government has granted Rs 218 crore under the 15th Finance Commission grant for higher education for the purpose of flourishing digital education and learning process as well as restructuring professional courses in regional languages for higher education in Odisha. Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan informed in a written presentation in the Lok…

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Paytm Payment Gateway and Paytm Payments Bank bring use case for customers to use their Fixed Deposit balances to make payments

New Delhi: India’s leading digital financial services platform Paytm has today announced that its All-In-One Payment Gateway now allows Fixed Deposit (FD) balances to make payments on partnered platforms. This is in association with Paytm Payment Bank Ltd, whose account holders can now use their fixed deposits with IndusInd Bank to make instant payments across…

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Bus Service Resumes In Odisha After Over 10 Weeks Of Lockdown Curbs

Bhubaneswar: Bus services are resuming services across the State from Monday after a suspension of around two and a half months by following strict COVID guidelines. The Government has decided to start playing only 2,000 buses out of the total number of 16,000 buses which provide a well connected public transport across the state, according…

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Pickle manufacturing units for Aahar Centers in Odisha

Bhubaneswar: The State Urban Development Authority (SUDA) and  Mission Shakti has come up with a collaborative step to initiate three state-of-the-art pickle manufacturing units at three different districts namely Baripada, Berhampur and Dhenkanal to procure the needs of the Aahaar centers across the State. There are 166 Aahaar centres in the State which have been…

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