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…
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)…
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…
Bhubaneswar: Chief minister Shri Naveen Patnaik on Tuesday acknowledged the people and the collaborators whose team efforts made a sound and peaceful completion of Rath Yatra in Puri along with strict COVID restrictions. By applauding the servitors for performing all the rituals of the festival in time with utmost allegiance and discipline. The chief minister…
Bhubaneswar: The Divine Trinity, Lord Jagannath and his siblings Lord Balabhadra and Goddess Subhadra, has returned to Srimandir on the auspicious occasion of Bahuda Jatra on 20 July, after staying nine days at Gundicha Temple, his aunt’s house. Bahuda Jatra is the reverse procession of the world famous Ratha Jatra where the Holy Trinity visit…
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…
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…
Bhubaneswar: According to the 2011 Indian census, there are 81,44,012 rural homes, of which 29,27,122 (36%) have electricity and 52,890 (48%) do not (64 percent ). Aside from power, bad phone and internet infrastructure in rural regions is a major issue. More than 20% (11,000) of Odisha’s villages lack cellphone coverage (Economic Survey, 2018-19). According…
Bhubaneswar: According to sources from State Health and Family Welfare Department, the pregnant women in Bhubaneswar will get the vaccine twice a week. The vaccination drive for pregnant women will be conducted at the Capital Hospital and all government UPHCs/UCHCs on every Wednesday and Saturday in a week between 11 am to 1 pm. Similar procedure…
Bhubaneswar: The state government has announced today for resuming the regular process of education system which had been halted due to the ongoing severity of the pandemic in the State. The ever debatable question which has been cropping up in every mind is whether the State Government vaccinated all the teachers (taking classes for Std…