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In-principle approval to ‘school support system"

Worried over huge school infrastructural gap, the State Government has given in-principle approval to ‘School Support System which would enable schools to receive help in kind from individuals and corporate houses. [...More]

Demand for resignation of Ravenshaw V-C mounts

The demand for removal of Ravenshaw University Vice-Chancellor Devdas Chhotray gained momentum on Monday when newly appointed city Congress chief Mohammad Moquim met the striking students in the campus who are on hunger strike for last 13 days. [...More]

Central varsity plans big

Masters programme in tribal welfare and community development will soon been included in the list of new subjects and schools that have been approved by the executive council of Central University of Orissa which celebrated its first Foundation Day. [...More]

Central University of Orissa to introduce five new courses

Central University of Orissa, Koraput, which will celebrate its first foundation day on August 29, is planning to launch five new courses from the next academic session. [...More]

Orissa government hikes scholarship amount

The Orissa government today decided to raise the scholarship amount of students studying in plus two, degree, Post Graduate level and in various technical colleges. [...More]

Students intensify stir

The two-day long agitation by some students of Ravenshaw University here intensified further on Thursday when the striking students launched a relay-hunger strike in front of varsity registrar"s office. [...More]

Naveen felicitates successful SC/ ST students

All 109 ashram schools and 142 primary schools with residential facilities being run by the ST, SC Development, Minorities and Backward Class Welfare Department will be upgraded from class 5 to 8. [...More]

Orissa has dress code for school teachers too

After students, it is the teachers in elementary and upper primary government schools of Orissa who will have to follow a dress code from Sep 15. [...More]

11 new Central schools to come up in State

Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan (KVS) under Union Ministry of Human Resource Development here on Monday announced opening of 11 new schools in the State . [...More]

Multi purpose berth to be constructed in Orissa’s Paradip Port

A multi purpose berth will be constructed in Paradip Port in an expenditure of Rs 387.31 crore. It will be constructed in Public Private Partnership (PPP) mode. [...More]

3-day national Odissi festival gets under way

Showcasing a record number of budding Odissi dancers across India, the fourth edition of the annual Naveen Kalakar national Odissi festival kicked off here on Tuesday. [...More]

IIT: good show by State students

The long wait for many aspirants of the Indian Institute of Technology-Joint Entrance Examination (IIT-JEE) on Wednesday ended in jubilation with a sizeable number of students from Orissa getting through the highly-competitive entrance examination this year. [...More]

VHP to oppose Vedant University on Lord Jagannath's land

The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) today opposed the Orissa government's move to hand over hundred acres of land belonging to Lord Jaganath of Puri to the Anil Agarwal Foundation for setting up a world class university on the Puri-Konark marine drive. [...More]

Some 50,000 students clear JEE

The wait of hundreds of students anxiously seeking admission into professional courses ended with Joint Entrance Examination (JEE), Orissa announcing results of entrance examination here on Thursday. [...More]

Students go on rampage seeking exam postponement

Hundreds of engineering students belonging to Biju Patnaik University of Technology (BPUT) here on Thursday went on the rampage attacking police and general public in support of their demand for postponement of examination beginning on Friday. [...More]

Private colleges put up good show

Reputed government colleges in which all ‘brilliant' students are desperate to take admission have failed to live up to the expectations as newly-founded private residential colleges have runaway success in this year's Plus II examinations results [...More]

Huge amount sought for revamp of higher education

The Task Fore on Higher Education (TFHE) here on Wednesday submitted its report seeking an investment to the tune of Rs. 45,000 crores by 2022 to revamp and expand higher education in the State. [...More]

Girls outshine boys in Plus II exams

Girls continued to march ahead of their counterparts in annual Plus II examinations as Council of Higher Secondary Education (CHSE), Orissa, simultaneously declared the results of all four streams -- science, arts, commerce and vocational -- here on Wednesday. [...More]

HC orders prosecution of principal

In an interim order, the High Court on Monday ordered to initiate criminal proceedings against the Principal of a prestigious English medium school of Bhubaneswar for filing false affidavits in court. [...More]

College admissions go hi-tech

Students seeking admission into degree colleges in Orissa will no more have to go to different colleges with multiple sets of applications from the academic session of 2010-11. [...More]

Bakul's cultural activities from today

City-based Bakul Foundation that undertakes a series of educational and cultural activities for children besides running the Bakul Children's Library in Satya Nagar here has announced commencement of activities like story telling, film screening and art and craft from Saturday. [...More]

State blamed for drinking water crisis

Orissa Jalasurakhya Janamanch on Tuesday held the State Government responsible for the severe drinking water crisis facing the people in many regions of the State in the recent months. [...More]

Women teachers demand transfer of principal

Controversy over alleged ill-behaviour by principal deepened further on Monday with several teachers and employees sitting on dharna demanding immediate action against former on campus of city-based Rama Devi Women's College. [...More]

RTE: girl education a big challenge for officials

The Orissa government may be considering fund crunch as a major impediment in the implementation of Right To Education in the State, but problems such as facilitating girls to continue their education [...More]

‘State needs Rs 16,000 cr. in five years for Education Act

Even though Right To Education Act came into force in the country on April 1, the Orissa Government seemed to be not ready to effectively implement the historic Act. [...More]