New block of Rly Central Hosp opened
Bhubaneswar: East Coast Railway General Manager Umesh Singh inaugurated the new block of the Railway Central Hospital at Mancheswar here on Friday in the presence of Additional General Manager Rajeev Sharma, Chief Medical Director Dr Sukanta Kumar Mohanty and Divisional Railway Manager Brij Mohan Agarwal. The new block has a 14-bed High Dependency Unit along with pathology, radiology and ultrasound facilities.
Press Day observed in Khordha
Khordha: Media plays two important roles in the society, i.e, bringing different issues of the society to the notice of the administration and secondly solving them with effective coverage, said Khordha Collector Nirmal Chandra Mishra during observance of the National Press Day here on Friday. Senior columnist Uma Sankar Prasad, Sanjay Das and Khordha SP Dipti Ranjan Ray also spoke on the occasion. DIPRO Surajit Mishra presided over the meeting where winners of different competitions were felicitated by the guests. Representatives from print and electronic media, intellectuals and senior members were present.
National Book Week observed at DAV CSPur
Bhubaneswar: A series of literary activities were conducted to mark the National Book Week at the DAV Public School Chandrasekharpur here. Writer Gourahari Das addressed the students in a ‘Meet the Author’ programme and advised them to read more good books of all genre for all round growth. Principal Dr KC Satapathy presided over the meeting. Earlier, Dr Satapathy inaugurated a book exhibition. Self-composed poetry recitation, book mark design, cover making competition were organised under the supervision of Chief Librarian Pradip Kumar Panda.