CM felicitates young poet Samarendra
Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Saturday felicitated 20-year-old poet Samarendra Patra for his achievement in the World Poetry International Peace Festival in Canada at the State Secretariat. Patra was awarded with World Poetry Youth Ambassador to India title for his poetry The Threshold of love based on Taj Mahal, for which he was
also placed in the limca Books of Records. Samarendra has written more than 700 poems in different languages, including Hindi, English and Odia.
New office-bearers OF Rotary Metro take charges
Bhubaneswar: The new office-bearers of the Rotary Club of Bhubaneswar Metro and the Inner Wheel Club of Bhubaneswar Metro took over for the current Rotary Year at the Installation Ceremony on Friday. Rotary Past District Governor Narendra Mishra and District Chairperson of Inner Wheel Swapna Jaiswal were the guests at the ceremony. Collars were handed over to new president Nimai Charan Padhy and new president of the Inner wheel Club Anjana Mishra.
IBCS ranked second B-School in Odisha
Bhubaneswar: The Institute of Business and Computer Studies (IBCS), the B-School run by the SoA University here, has been ranked second best after the Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar, in Odisha and fifth among top B-Schools in the eastern region in a recent survey conducted by weekly Businessworld. The IBCS, the only B-School in Odisha set up in 1997 had been ranked second in the eastern zone and 26th in the country in a survey conducted earlier this year by SiliconIndia which excluded the IIMs and some other top business schools from its purview.
Capital High School holds Vana Mahotsav
Bhubaneswar: Vana Mahotsav was celebrated with a plantation programme at the Capital High School on Friday. Chief guest senior journalist Pradosh Patnaik and guest of honour senior journalist Pradyumna Mohanty spoke on the significance of the Vana Mahotsav. The programme was presided over by school headmistress Bandana Mohapatra.