U Sammilani observes Surendra Sai death anniv
Bhubaneswar: The Utkal Sammilani and the Veer Surendra Sai Nagar Unnayan Parishad observed the 135th death anniversary of freedom fighter Veer Surendra Sai and paid floral tributes to his statue here on Thursday. Sammilani Mancheswar branch president Dillip Dashsharma presided over the meeting. Bhubaneswar North MLA Priyadarshi Mishra, Sankarananda Giri Maharaj, former Corporator Rashmita Mohanty, Pandav Routray, Shiv Prasad Mishra, Nimai Das, Sital Chandra Mohanty, Dr Kumuda Mishra, Bibhuti Swain, Ashok Kumar Paltasingh and Maheswar Biswal paid floral tributes. Many other members also paid tributes to the legendray freedom fighter.
SBI holds SBINUMEROYONO quiz
Bhubaneswar: The SBI organised a quiz competition “SBINUMEROYONO Quiz 2019” here on Thursday to popularise the YONO brand among the college students of the State. The competition is an all India-level quiz competition conducted at 17 different LHO centres of the bank. The winner of the Bhubaneswar team would participate in national-level competition at Mumbai during March. SBI Local Office GM Goutam Bhattacharya inaugurated the quiz in which as many as 154 teams participated. Alankar Devta, Parijat Sinha and Sharzab Al Haque, a team from the KIIT University won the competition. They would all get prize money of Rs 2.16 lakh as scholarship.
Infosys awarded for best environmental practices
Bhubaneswar: The Infosys Bhubaneswar DC was declared as winner in the 14th State-level competition of best practices in environment, health and safety. The award was handed over by CII Eastern region Chairperson Jagi Mangat Panda during annual day celebration here on Wednesday. The Infosys had participated in competition organised by CII for the first time which took place on October 12, 2018.