Nayak takes over as NRRI, Cuttack Acting Dir
Cuttack: Eminent agriculture scientist and Crop Production Division head Dr Amaresh Kumar Nayak took over as the Acting Director of the ICAR-National Rice Research Institute, formerly known as CRRI, in Cuttack on November 17. Dr Nayak has been conferred with several national and international recognitions like the ICAR Award and NAAS Fellow for his significant contributions in agricultural research over the last two decades. Dr Nayak is a PhD degree holder from the prestigious Banaras Hindu University (BHU).
National Book Week celebrated at DAV
Bhubaneswar: The National Book Week was celebrated at the DAV Public School, Chandrasekharpur here from November 14 to 20. Various activities like a book exhibition, poster making, book mark designing and synopsis writing competitions were organised to spread awareness among young readers. The book exhibition was inaugurated by Principal-cum-Regional Director Dr KC Satapathy. The entire programme was coordinated by Readers’ Club in-charge teacher Pradeep Kumar Panda.
ABVP celebrates laxmibai birth anniv
Bhubaneswar: The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) celebrated the birth anniversary of Jhansi Rani laxmibai in the premises of Rajdhani College and Ramadevi University on Thursday. Students and lecturers garlanded laxmibai’s portrait and referred to the contribution of laxmibai to the freedom movement. They also spoke on the involvement of today’s women in serving the nation. Rama Devi student Pragyanshree Acharya coordinated the meeting. Student leader Harapriya Prusti coordinated the meeting at the Rajdhani College.
City airport awards cleaning staffs
Bhubaneswar: The Biju Patnaik international Airport here has decided to recognise the services of cleaning staffs, including contractual workers of Mechanised Environmental Supporting Services (MESS) and reward them with cash prize as a token of gesture. To start with, the airport awarded staffs Rohit Dash and Subhash Chandra Nayak with the cash prize of Rs 1,000, each, for the month of September and October, respectively. Airport Director Sharad Kumar gave away the prizes in the presence of AAI employees, CISF, representatives of airlines.
KIIT students top Mahindra AQ city round
Bhubaneswar: Ritwik Kundu and Prakhar Saini, students of the KIIT University here, won the city round of the Mahindra Auto Quotient (AQ) quiz competition, organised at the SOA University on Thursday. A team from Rourkela, including SAIl employee Sampad Mishra and NIT student Nishant Nihar finished second while Debjit Jana and Saswat Nayak of the SOA University came out third. The winners of the city round will now compete in the regional round to be held in New Delhi. The Mahindra AQ is open to young people between the age group of 18 and 35 years working in the corporate sector or engineering and management students.