Dr Agarwal’s holds eye donation awareness drive
Cuttack: The 32nd eye donation fortnight was observed by the Dr Agarwal’s Eye Hospital here on Friday. CMC Mayor Minakshi Behera flagged off the eye donation awareness vehicle. Among others, lok Sevak Mandal secretary Dr Pravas Acharya, head of medical service Dr Navratan Dhanuka and cornea consultant Dr Aiswarya Das were present. An eye donation awareness human chain was also formed by the hospital staffs.
Media Academy foundation day held
Bhubaneswar: The 19th foundation day of the Media Academy and a felicitation ceremony were held at Buddha Vihar here on Friday. Eminent photojournalist of Cuttack HN Das was felicitated by Minister Sasshi Bhusan Behera. Sambad editor Soumya Ranjan Patnaik, former VC of Utkal University of Culture Dr Bimalendu Mohanty, former Minister Panchanan Kanungo, Aryakumar Jnanendra and Media Academy founder Basant Das were present,
CITU condemns scribe lankesh murder
Bhubaneswar: The Centre of India Trade Union (CITU), Odisha unit has strongly condemned the murder of well-known journalist Gouri lankesh in Bengaluru. The CITU said, “We have lost another intellectual.” The murder of lankesh is a fascist conspiracy and till now the assailants have not been caught. In her last magazine editorial she had alleged that PM Modi is running a fake news factory. RSS members have allegedly justified her murder in the social media which is very unfortunate, the CITU said.