70th UN Day observed in city
Bhubaneswar: The Rajya Yuba Sammukhya Samiti celebrated the 70th United Nations Day with a peace Padayatra here on Saturday. The Padayatra started from Kalinga Hospital Square to the Mahatma Gandhi Park. The Samiti members garlanded the statue of Gandhi. The UN Day falls on October 24 marking the anniversary of the entry into force in 1945 of the UN Charter. Among others, Samiti secretary Abhaya Badajena, Sudhanshu Mohapatra, Girija Sankar Mohapatra, Brajabandhu Parida, Kalicharan Singh, Anand Chandra Pattanayak, Antaryami Kuanr and Sukant Rout participated in the Padayatra.
Ex-bureaucrat Srinivasan passes away
Bhubaneswar: Former bureaucrat K Srinivasan passed away at the age of 84 here on Thursday. He was suffering from illness for the last one week and undergoing treatment at a private hospital here. He is survived by his wife Dr Rajeswari Dalabehera, a daughter and a son. The 1955-batch IAS officer, who was the Agriculture Production Commissioner, was also a socially active person and a good tennis player. The funeral rites were held at Satya Nagar here.
Guru Sudhakar gets Akademi Award
Bhubaneswar: President Pranab Mukherjee conferred Odishi Guru Sudhakar Sahoo with Sangeet Natak Akademi Award 2015 on Saturday at the Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi. Guru Sudhakar was born on January 1, 1935 at Bodaikateni of Dhenkanal district. Sahoo, disciple of Duryodhan Mohanty and Guru Jayram Kundu gave his first performance in a drama called Pahili Raja at the age of 16. In1954, he started learning Odishi dance from Guru Deba Prasad Dash and Odishi music from Sangeet Sudhakar Balakrushna Dash. In 1957, he started teaching Odishi at Puri-based Kishor Club.
One-day tour to Buddhist sites on Oct 31
Bhubaneswar: The Mudra Foundation and the Mitabi Kobayashi in association with the State Tourism Department would hold a tour to the three major Buddhist sites located in the State on October 31. The ruins of lalitagiri, Udayagiri and Ratnagiri in Jajpur district are the important places which are relevant to the birth of the Vajrayana Buddhism, which is one of the origins of the Japanese Buddhism. One can deeply learn about history of sites with MA student of archaeology in the Nalanda University Akiro Nakamura as a guide of this tour.