Indigo launches direct flight from BBSR to Chennai
Bhubaneswar: The Indigo Airlines on Wednesday launched the much-awaited daily direct flight service to Chennai from the Bhubaneswar airport. Indigo Airlines flight no. IGO-756, which landed at 2.10 pm here, took off for Chennai at 2.50 pm. With this, Bhubaneswar now has direct flight services to eight destinations. Earlier, Bhubaneswar had direct flights to New Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Visakhapatnam and Varanasi. A total of 28 flights by carriers Air India, Indigo Airlines, Go Air and Vistara operate from Bhubaneswar.
AYOS students bag 2 gold medals
Bhubaneswar: The Academy of Yoga and Oriental Studies (AYOS), which is busy in various activities round the year for protection and spread of Indian culture for the last eleven years, is also running a yoga college with postgraduate courses since 2011. Quality teaching with zero malpractice has brought honour and good name to the academy. Till date, four batches have passed out of the college in which the worthy students have bagged three gold medals in the last three years. The gold medals for 2015 and 2016 were awarded to SP Mishra and Bhaskar Chandra Pattnaik in the Utkal University of Culture (UUC) Convocation on Wednesday.
CCWD holds student enrolment campaign
Bhubaneswar: City-based Center for Child and Women Development (CCWD) organised an awareness drive here at the Niladri Vihar slum on the occasion of Pravesh Utsav. The objective was to sensitise the slum dwellers to get their children enrolled in school.