SOA Varsity observes Van Mahotsav
Bhubaneswar: SOA University students undertook a roadside plantation drive at Kalinga Nagar here on Thursday to mark the Van Mahotsav week. The students planted more than 750 saplings of seven different varieties in the presence of senior faculties and officials. The NSS Bureau of the university organised the plantation drive involving the NSS units functioning in the nine different institutions under it. City Divisional Forest Officer Prasanta Kumar Mishra, who was chief guest, said, “Care should be taken to ensure that the saplings thrive and blossom into beautiful trees.”
lions Club provides roadside service to devotees
Bhubaneswar: The lions Club, Bhubaneswar provided Pathapranta Seva (roadside service) to devotees near the Siridi Sai temple on the Puri Road on the occasion of the Rath Yatra on Wednesday. Club president Ramakanta Sahu and members Anil Agrawaal, Tapan Kumar Harichandan and Prashant Parida distributed drinking water and biscuits among the travellers.