Padmini wins Asian Chess Championship
Bhubaneswar: Odisha’s Padmini Rout on Tuesday earned laurels to the State as she won the Asian Continental Chess Championship-2018 in the Philippines. The International Master and Woman Grandmaster won the gold medal by securing 7 points from a total of 9 rounds in the tournament. She also qualified for the Women’s World Chess Championship with this victory. The ace chess player had won the World Under-14 Girls’ Championship in 2008 and the Indian Women’s Championship for four consecutive years of 2014, 2015, 2016 and2017.
Engineering student goes missing in Puri sea
Puri: An engineering student went missing while taking bath in sea here on Tuesday. Sai Krishna Kumar, a student of BIT at Ranchi in Jharkhand, had come to Puri with his three friends and his sister. While they were bathing in the sea in morning, a high tide swept away Kumar with it. Lifeguards present at the spot initiated a rescue operation after noticing his friends shouting for help. The Marine police reached the beach and expedited the operation.
SOA holds int’l meet on communication engg
Bhubaneswar: A three-day international conference on ‘Communication, Computing, Control and Device (i4CD-2018)’ organised by the SOA University’s Electronics and Communication Engineering Department was inaugurated here on Monday. Prof GS Chae from the Baekseok University in South Korea attended as chief guest. Experts from academia and industries in the area of electronics and communication engineering discussed on the emerging and future trends in the field.
Jajpur DM gets Barendra Memorial Award
Bhubaneswar: The "Barendra Krushna-Snehalata Memorial Award-2018" was conferred on Jajpur district Collector Ranjan Kumar Dash and journalist Rajaram Satpathy for their contribution to the fields of Odia literature and journalism, respectively. Dash and Satpathy received the award at the 29th Industrial and Trade Fair held at Vyasa Nagar in Jajpur district recently. Dash said he is very much fortunate to receive the award as he is a fan of noted writer and journalist late Barendra Krushna Dal. Trade fair committee chairman Jitendra Kumar Pratihari presided over the function. Over a lakh of people visited the fair inaugurated on December 5.
News7 editor felicitated for Defence coverage
Bhubaneswar: News7 editor Ardhendu Das was felicitated by the Veteran India in Delhi for telecasting a special coverage on soldiers and Indian Defence. He was felicitated on the 47th Vijay Divas in the presence of Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh, Jawans and former servicemen. The role of News7 in presenting the patriotic activities of the Indian Defence system was praised by Air Vice-Marshal SK Jindal. News7 Delhi correspondent Sabnam Adeni received the award on behalf of Das.