Krushna gets Kendra Sahitya Akademi Award
Bhubaneswar: Odisha’s eminent poet Gopal Krushna Rath will be conferred with the Kendra Sahitya Akademi Award for the year 2014. Rath has been chosen for the award for his anthology of poems Bipula Diganta, the Akademi said in a release on Friday.
Higher Education URl to be changed
Bhubaneswar: The State Government has decided to change the URl (Uniform Resource locator) of the Higher Education Department. The URl of the department, launched in 2008, was www.dheorissa.in. However, with the Government deciding in principle to incorporate ‘Odisha’ in place of ‘Orissa’, the department has decided to change the URl to www.dheodisha.gov.in, sources in the department said. Higher Education Additional Secretary Durga Prasad Sahu, in a letter, has asked the Odisha Computer Application Centre (OCAC) to change the URl at the earliest. However, he has asked the OCAC authorities to link its previous URl with the new one.
Ace Autocars launches doorstep service
Cuttack: Now people will not have to go to a service centre for servicing of their vehicles with city-based Ace Autocars Private limited introducing the first doorstep service in the State. The company would provide services like vacuum cleaning of vehicle interiors, oil change, wash and fuel saving by visiting door-to-door, informed Ace Autocars General Manger Ranjit Dash and Service Manager Biswaranjan Nanda.