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OYO To Hire Techies In Next 6 Months; Offers In Upcoming Placement Season

Hospitality unicorn OYO is planning to hire more than 300 technology professionals over the next six months.

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  • Saturday, 21 August 2021
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Ragging at VSSUT: Accused students face action

Sambalpur: Despite strict guidelines set by bodies like University Grants Commission (UGC) to stop ragging incidents across the country, the menace is yet to stop. In one such incident at Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology (VSSUT) in Sambalpur of Odisha, one student has been penalised with a ‘year back’ for ragging 2nd year students […]

  • Thursday, 29 July 2021
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Hike in non-domicile quota in Odisha engineering colleges opposed   

Bhubaneswar: Students and academicians have opposed the Odisha government’s decision to hike seat reservation in engineering colleges for students from outside the state to 25% from the current academic year. The Policy Planning Body, the apex advisory body of the Odisha Skill Development and Technical Education Department had approved the proposal in this regard on […]

  • Thursday, 29 July 2021
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Rescheduled JEE (Advanced) 2021 Dates Announced

The rescheduled JEE (Advanced) 2021 examination for admission into the IITs will be conducted on October 3rd this year. Union Education Minister, Dharmendra Pradhan announced the dates on Monday.

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  • Tuesday, 27 July 2021
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25 % pvt engineering seats in Odisha to be reserved for non-Odias

Bhubaneswar: In a significant decision to fill up the seats falling vacant in private engineering colleges, the state government has approved extending the admission quota for students from outside the state to 25% from the current academic year. The move comes after the Policy Planning Body, the apex advisory body of the Skill Development and […]

  • Monday, 26 July 2021
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22,500 students have registered for JEE Main so far: OJEE chairman

Bhubaneswar: Seats at engineering colleges in the State are likely to fall vacant this year as well due to a dismal number of students registering for the JEE Main entrance so far. OJEE Chairman Tushar Kant Nath informed only 22,500 students have registered for the all-India entrance test so far. As per the AICTE guidelines […]

  • Friday, 23 July 2021
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BPUT, VSSUT VCs get notices over delay in result publication

Bhubaneswar: After receiving a large number of complaints from the engineering students and their guardians about non-publication of result of different branches of B.Tech, M.Tech as well as other professional courses of BPUT since 2009-10, Joint Secretary Ajay Kumar Nayak on Tuesday directed the BPUT, Rourkela and VSSUT, Burla University Vice-Chancellors to look into the […]

  • Friday, 23 July 2021
4,000 more students to be eligible for JEE Advanced in 2018

New Delhi/Bhubaneswar: Good news for students wishing to pursue engineering as another 4,000 aspirants will be eligible to appear for the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Advanced in May 2018. The Joint Admission Board (JAB) has taken a decision to increase the number of eligible candidates for the JEE from 2.20 lakh this year to 2.24 […]

  • Friday, 23 July 2021
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Tech education in Odisha goes downhill

Bhubaneswar: The plight of technical education in Odisha has once again come to limelight after the admission process for the current academic session recorded the lowest ever students intake in recent years. Reports suggested that there are as many as 88 private engineering colleges in Odisha with a net strength of around 40,000 seats. Like […]

  • Thursday, 22 July 2021
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SC puts admissions to IITs, NITs and other engineering colleges on hold

New Delhi/Bhubaneswar: Admissions to most engineering colleges across the country, including IITs and NITs have been put on hold on Friday by the Supreme Court over bonus marks in JEE. The apex court gave the order based on a petition filed by two students seeking revision of the list of students who cracked IIT after […]

  • Thursday, 22 July 2021
Engineering counselling for OJEE qualifiers begins today

Bhubaneswar: OJEE B Tech counselling begins today for which students can register as per their rank in the JEE Main exam. The engineering counselling begins at 11 am today. This year 42,000 students had appeared for the exam. For the counselling today, students who qualified JEE Main exam can get registration done and lock choices […]

  • Thursday, 22 July 2021
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Odisha adopts IIT, NIT format for engineering counseling

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government is all set to introduce new rules in line with the format followed by IITs and NITs for the counselling process in engineering admissions. The new guidelines will be implemented for admissions into the current academic session, informed Chief Secretary, Aditya Padhi today. As per the new guidelines, the final list […]

  • Wednesday, 21 July 2021
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Changes to engineering admission process on anvil

Bhubaneswar: As a part of reforms in the process of admission into engineering courses to address the problem of seat vacancies in colleges, the Odisha government is discussing a proposal through which part-admission fee of Rs 30,000 paid by students will now be deposited with Odisha Joint Entrance Examination (OJEE) Committee rather than the concerned […]

  • Tuesday, 20 July 2021
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Over 33,000 seats fall vacant in private engineering colleges in Odisha

The plight of the technical education in Odisha has come to the limelight as over 33,000 seats have fallen vacant in private engineering colleges after the first phase counselling of the Odisha Joint Entrance Examination (OJEE)

  • Tuesday, 20 July 2021
Engineering seat hike sans AICTE nod: Govt says step taken for poor students

Bhubaneswar: After the Orissa High Court issued notices to at least six government engineering colleges in the state, over the increase in number of seats in certain courses without getting due approval from AICTE, the Employment and Technical Education & Training Department has responded saying that such a step has been taken to accommodate poor […]

  • Friday, 16 July 2021
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