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U Sammilani observes Nandini death anniv 

Bhubaneswar: The Utkal Sammilani observed the death anniversary of first woman Chief Minister of Odisha Nandini Satpathy and paid floral tributes to her statue at lIC Square here on Friday. Sammilani Mancheswar branch president Dillip Dashsharma presided over the programme. Sammilani vice-presidents Nirakar Mahalik, Sital Chandra Mohanty, joint secretaries Ashok Kumar Paltasingh, Basanti Tripathy, members Akhaya Kumar Tripathy, Shiv Prasad Mishra, Nalini Kumar Mohanty, Niranjan Patra, Gopi Mohan Pattanik, Abhaya Badjena and Min Ketan Jena were present.    

NYCA for Nandini’s life history in textbooks  

Bhubaneswar: The Niladri Vihar Youth and Cultural Association (NYCA) here held a meeting and paid tributes to Nandini Satpathy on her death anniversary. NYCA president Dr Prakash Chandra Panigrahy presided over the meeting and highlighted the life and achievements of Satpathy. NYCA general secretary Biswajit Patnaik thanked the State Government for accepting the demand to set up a statue of Satpathy and demanded to include her life history in the school textbooks. NYCA general secretary Jatakrushna Panda gave a vote of thanks.

Cisco IOT Hackathon finals from Aug 8

Bhubaneswar: The global computer giant Cisco would conduct the Cisco IOT Hackathon grand finale at the Trident Academy of Technology here from August 8 to 10. In the programming competition, 15 finalist teams comprising 60 students would present their innovative ideas. The process started from March 1 in which 4,000 students from various universities and technical institutions of three States, Odisha, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh registered.