Diana Sahu

Odisha

Special Correspondent at The New Indian Express

Special Correspondent @NewIndianXpress I @ACJIndia alumna I @Laadli_PF Awardee & Media Fellow I @WNCB_India Jury Awardee I ✉️ : [email protected]

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Amid cinema hall crisis, 'Raja' releases run to packed houses

3 days ago | newindianexpress.com | Diana Sahu

By Diana Sahu BHUBANESWAR: The 'Raja' market for Odia cinema is booming again. Babushaan Mohanty's new movie, 'Bou Buttu Bhuta' and Sabyasachi Mishra's 'Ananta' released ahead of the three-day festival, have been running to full houses ever since. Yet, the lack of theatres continues to be a cause of worry for the makers. While 'Bou Buttu Bhuta' has been directed by Jagdish Mishra, 'Ananta' is by national award-winning filmmaker Sabyasachi Mohapatra.
Snehasis Das tops Odisha in NEET-UG, bags all-India rank 60

6 days ago | newindianexpress.com | Diana Sahu

By Diana Sahu In the same category for males, Raghunath Behera and Durbadala Meher have scored third and fifth ranks respectively. While Behera's percentile is 99.79 with 4,478 rank, Meher scored 7,007 rank with 99.67 percentile. Across the country, 22,09,318 students appeared for the entrance examination, the majority of them women, and 12,36,531 qualified. Those who cleared the examination account for 55.96 per cent of the overall figure of 22,09,318 aspirants who appeared for the exam on May 4.
VIMSAR, OUHS warned by UGC for flouting anti-ragging norms

1 week ago | newindianexpress.com | Diana Sahu

By Diana Sahu BHUBANESWAR: The University Grants Commission (UGC) has warned two state government-run institutions of regulatory action for failing to submit the mandatory anti-ragging compliance reports and undertakings from students not to indulge in ragging, for the year 2024. The two institutions are Veer Surendra Sai Institute of Medical Sciences and Research (VIMSAR) at Burla and Odisha University of Health Sciences (OUHS) in Bhubaneswar.
Chilika's seaweed has anti-cancer properties: Study

1 week ago | newindianexpress.com | Diana Sahu

By Diana Sahu Since 2014, they have been working on the project with funding from the Department of Science and Technology (DST) under the Ministry of Science and Technology. Their study titled 'Process for Developing Seaweed Extract and Composition Useful Against UV-Radiation, Oxidative Damage and Skin Cancer' has been provided patent under the Patents Act, 1970 for a period of 20 years from July 15, 2021.
IOSR brings out technical glossary for engineering education in Odia

1 week ago | newindianexpress.com | Diana Sahu

By Diana Sahu The technical glossary apart, translation of the first year engineering books from English to Odia is complete and work for the second and third year textbooks is underway. The AICTE, in alignment with National Education Policy-2020, had included Odia in the list of 11 regional languages for engineering education. Prusty informed that 36 BTech and 33 diploma books for the first year have already been distributed free of cost to all engineering colleges and universities.
Odisha government plans survey of orphans, single-parent kids; vulnerable to benefit from different schemes

2 weeks ago | newindianexpress.com | Diana Sahu

By Diana Sahu It has set a target group for the survey under which, an orphan child is one without biological parents or adoptive parents and a single parent child is one living only with mother or a child living with father having disabilities above 40 pc or suffering from chronic disease and unable to earn for the family. After the survey, the Odisha State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (OSCPCR) has been asked to submit the final data to the department by September 4.
One year on, national scholarships elude 183 students with disabilities in Odisha

2 weeks ago | newindianexpress.com | Diana Sahu

By Diana Sahu BHUBANESWAR: Even as the new academic session is set to start, as many as 183 students with disabilities of the state are awaiting national scholarships for close to a year. They had submitted applications for the scholarships through their educational institutions in 2024-25.
Shreejita provides hands-on education for children in rural Odisha

2 weeks ago | newindianexpress.com | Diana Sahu

"For example, in the mock bank and shop, children learn to interact with one another in English or Odia, learn to write their names, do basic calculations, plan expenditures, etc.
Over 1 lakh applications for only 2,000 BEd seats across Odisha

3 weeks ago | newindianexpress.com | Diana Sahu

By Diana Sahu BHUBANESWAR: A whopping 1,29,712 students have applied for admission to just 2,750 BEd seats and 1,651 students for 300 MEd seats, in a grim pointer to the demand-supply gap in teacher education in the state. Currently, there are 31 higher education institutes, including government colleges and standalone teacher education institutes, which offer BEd, MEd and BHEd (Bachelor of Hindi Education).
'Unfair practices' in exams reason behind delay in CBSE results in Odisha's Bargarh district

3 weeks ago | newindianexpress.com | Diana Sahu

By Diana Sahu BHUBANESWAR: The pending CBSE Class X and XII examination results of six schools in Bargarh were announced on Tuesday. CBSE sources said the results were delayed owing to use of unfair means in two examination centres of the district - Odisha Adarsh Vidyalaya (OAV) at Bandhupali and Padampur Public School - where students of the six schools including four OAVs had appeared for the tests. The Board had submitted a report on the malpractices on Monday.