BJB students celebrate Diwali in old age home
Bhubaneswar: To bring a ray of happiness in the lives of the old and destitute, BJB Autonomous College Journalism and Mass Communication students celebrated Diwali with old and helpless people at the Sri Krishna Anand Old Age Home here on Tuesday. They spent the day with the inmates. The students decorated the ashram with rangoli and lights. They also distributed fruits, cakes, snacks, sweets and entertained them with song and dance and lighted earthen lamps and candles in evening. “With an aim to bring happiness in the lives of the old and homeless, we have come up with this unique idea to observe the festival of lights,” said department HoD Nalin Patra.
DAV Brajarajnagar emerges champions
Bhubaneswar: The DAV Public School, Brajarajnagar and the DAV Public School Chandrasekharpur here emerged as the Champions and Runners-up, respectively, in the recently-concluded DAV Zonal Meet-2015 held at the DAV Public School, MCl, Dera in Talcher. Winners of cluster-level meet of both the zones had participated. The Champions team scored 58 points while the Runners up team scored 29 points. lipsa Das of the DAV Chandrasekharpur became the individual champion in girls’ category. The school’s boys’ table tennis team was declared champion and badminton team runners-up. Sports Director Ananta Kishore Jena and Regional Directors of the DAV Institutions Dr KC Satapathy and loknath Pradhan gave away prizes to the winners, who would participate in the DAV National Meet to be held in December.