Jual felicitates Guinness record holder Keshab
Bhubaneswar: Union Tribal Affairs Minister Jual Oram has felicitated Guinness Book Record holder and green coconut breaker Keshab Swain from Odisha for bagging World Record India-2014, Genius Award-2014 and 10-live World Records at the 1st World Records annual function, organised by the World Records of India and World Amazing Records in Ahmadabad, Gujrat on December 14. The event was supported by the Genius Foundation. The Minister congratulated Swain for such rare feat in New Delhi on Tuesday.
SBI holds AIDS awareness programme
Bhubaneswar: An AIDS awareness programme was organised by the State Bank of India (SBI), local Head Office on Tuesday. SBI Bhubaneswar Circle CGM KM Trivedi presided over the meeting. Chief of the AIDs Control Foundation (ACF), New Delhi Dr RK Verma and Chief Executive Dr RC Balony conducted the programme. Besides, a film on AIDS awareness, prepared by the Ministry of Home Affairs was screened on the occasion. Among others, bank’s Bhubaneswar Circle General Manager Pulak Kumar Sinha and Assistant General Manager (HR) Sudhir Kumar Pradhan were present.
DD broadcasting Natak Mahotsav
Bhubaneswar: The Doordarshan Centre, Bhubaneswar is broadcasting a Natak Mahotsav on the DD-Odia channel beginning from Sunday. A total of 14 plays, produced by various organisations of Cuttack, Bhubaneswar, Bhadrak, Baleswar, Keonjhar, Rourkela, Sambalpur and Subarnapur have been placed in the Mahotsav. The programme is being telecasted at 9 pm on every Sunday and at 9.30 pm on the other days.
Odisha physician felicitated in Bangalore
Bhubaneswar: Noted endocrinologist Dr Sunil Kumar Kota belonging to Brahmapur was conferred with the prestigious Dr VD Nadgouda Oratory Award by the Research Society for the Study of Diabetes in India (RSSDI) at its 42nd annual conference held in Bangalore recently. An alumnus of the MKCG Medical College, Brahmapur and SCB Medical College, Cuttack, he was presented the award by RSSDI president Dr Samar Banerjee in recognition for his 44 research publications on cardio-diabetology. He is the first doctor from Odisha to receive the award. He presented his research works before over 5,000 participants in the conference.
FISHCOPFED Programme Officer visits Japan
Bhubaneswar: Programme Officer of the National Federation of Fishermen’s Cooperatives limited (FISHCOPFED) Regional Office here Dr Sasmita Mohapatra, being selected by the International Cooperative Alliance (ICA), was on a-month-long visit to Japan for a training programme on Improving Capacity of Rural Women. The programme, organsied by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Japan, was held recently. The first week of the programme was held in Thailand and the remaining weeks in Tokyo. Dr Mohapatra visited various rural women enterprises and cooperative societies of Hiroshima, Gunma and Shinjuku States in Japan.