BHUBANESWAR: The Fakir Mohan University on Friday launched a new initiative meet eminent academics and people from the corporate world to familiarise its students with the industry and the corporate world.
Vice-chancellor Dinabandhu Sahoo said the university will host a lecture or interaction series for the students as part of the initiative. On the inaugural day of the lecture series, HK Patnaik, an industrialist from Vadodora, spoke about global waste management techniques and opportunities of employment for students in the industry sector.
“While the university stands for training young brains, industries stand for widening employment to such young brains. Therefore, university-industry partnership is the need of the hour,” said Sahoo.
BHUBANESWAR: Fakir Mohan University, Balasore, will open a centre of excellence on “Bioresources Management and Energy Conservation Material Management” funded by the World Bank and the Odisha Higher Education Programme for Excellence and Equity (OHEPEE). Dinabandhu Sahoo, vice-chancellor of the university, laid the foundation stone of the centre in the campus on Thursday.
The centre at Balasore will concentrate on biodiversity assessment with special emphasis on seaweeds, mangroves, medicinal plants, micro-organisms and marine mammals. It will also study the pollution monitoring and management along with assessment of the ground and surface water quality. Besides, the team will carry out research on development of hybrid nano-composite materials for energy conservation, official sources said. The state-of-the-art centre spread over 10,000 sq ft will have world-class laboratories.
A worker sanitises Utkal University ahead of its reopening, on Sunday
BHUBANESWAR: Degree colleges, universities, technical and professional institutions in the state will be reopened from Monday for final year UG, PG and diploma programmes for academic year 2020-21. The institutions are all prepared to welcome students for physical classes after a gap of more than nine months due to Covid-19 restrictions.
Both higher education department along with skill development and technical education department has issued orders for commencement of physical classes. It has also issued standard operating procedure (SOP) and Covid guidelines to hold the offline classes.
According to the government orders, hostels of degree colleges, diploma institutions and universities under these two departments opened on Sunday for students after taking all measures to make the hostels habitable. Though some universities were planning to allow students only with Covid negative certificate, the idea was d
Mission Blue
India aspires to bring a revolution using ocean science to shape the national life and development activities, says retired scientist Anil Chatterjee of National Institute of Oceanography Post News Network
Since ages man has been on a mission to explore the mysteries that oceans contain within their depths. Despite unearthing of innumerable findings over the years, much of the ocean secrets have remained unexplored. In a bid to study various aspects of the ocean floor in an integrated framework, India has started working on Deep Ocean Mission, an ambitious project which envisages exploration of minerals, energy and marine diversity of the underwater world among others. It will put India in the company of nations like China, Korea and Germany.
Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik
BHUBANESWAR: After simultaneously stoking the fire of regionalism and raising the banner of Odia pride, chief minister Naveen Patnaik has now turned his attention towards transparency in governance by proposing to put the annual property statements of people’s representatives, from sarpanches to MPs, and government employees in the public domain.
“I had spoken about the role of a regional party in a state formed on the basis of language and about the importance of protecting our unique identity. We are fighting against poverty, regional imbalance, diseases and disasters. All these will be worthless if we don’t become transparent and root out corruption,” Naveen said while addressing the BJD state council meeting on Monday, three days after he talked about Odia pride and identity during the party’s youth wing meeting.