Tag: Utkal University

The State government has spent a whopping Rs 2.42 crore on training meritorious Civil Service aspirants for three years at eight universities in the State but none of them could crack the competitive examination. 

The engagement will be for a period of two years or till the completion of the project. The position is purely temporary.

Ragging allegations surfaced at Utkal University in Vani Vihar on Friday (Nov 26) after some first year IMBA students alleged that they were harassed by some senior students of the university.

As per reports, a first year IMBA student was allegedly stripped and ragged inside the hostel by some senior students with help of non-students.

Bhubaneswar: Following allegations of mismatch between examination questions and course syllabus, authorities of the Utkal University today cancelled the examinations for Plus-III Mathematics and Chemistry honours subjects. After 20 minutes of the commencement of third and fifth semester exams of Plus III, some students complained that the questions were out of the scope of the […]

Bhubaneswar/Sambalpur: Tension prevailed at the Utkal University and Sambalpur University on Monday following student protest on the campuses. As per reports, while a group of students of the Utkal University’s Pharmacy department was staging an agitation in front of the varsity main gate, some non-students and former students allegedly misbehaved with protestors. This sparked palpable […]

Bhubaneswar: Protesting the decision of Utkal University’s Post Graduate (PG)Council to cancel campus polls this year, students of the university organised a dharna in front of the varsity main gate today. “Like this year, the students’ union elections were cancelled last year too. Neither convocation nor any developmental activity was carried out in the university […]

Bhubaneswar: For 80-year-old former MP, Narayan Sahu, age is just a number. It is evident from the fact that the octogenarian is still a student, staying at the Utkal University hostel to get his PhD degree. The two-time MLA from Pallahara, who was also an MP from Deogarh in 1980, resides in Room no-24 of […]

Bhubaneswar: Utkal University authorities have called off student union elections this year as the situation in campus is not conducive, informed student union advisor of the varsity, Basant Kumar Mallick today. According to sources, the decision was taken at the PG council meeting today. As per a notification issued by the Higher Education Department yesterday, […]

If you check the ‘Activity Report 2016-17’ of the Higher Education Department of Odisha government, you will find something very odd. The report, a PDF file is actually scanned from pages torn from the hard copy of the activity book. If you can spot the irony there, then that is precisely what the condition of […]

Bhubaneswar: Giving new wings to dreams of students interested in gaining exposure in foreign universities, Utkal University is going to launch student and faculty exchange and other inter-university research programmes involving foreign student and faculties. Vice Chancellor of the varsity, Soumendra Mohan Patnaik informed about the programme on the sidelines of the two-day symposium on […]

Bhubaneswar: The rift in Biju Chhatra Janata Dal (BCJD), the students’ wing of ruling BJD, came to the fore on Tuesday after two of its groups clashed with each other at the Utkal University here. Supporters of both groups staged road blockades and burned tyres at different places leading to arrest of three persons. As […]

Bhubaneswar: Tension ran high inside the Utkal University campus in Bhubaneswar today when around 35 Integrated MBA aspirants along with their guardians staged a protest before the business administration department against the conduct of unscheduled entrance examination for the course a day ahead of the dates of exam mentioned in some admit cards. According to […]

Bhubaneswar/New Delhi: Utkal University, Bhubaneswar has found a place among the 75 discipline-specific National Resource Centres (NRCs) identified by the HRD Ministry for online refresher programmes for development of at least 1.5 million higher education faculty members. Each of the 75 NRCs have to prepare discipline wise online training material with focus on latest developments, […]

Bhubaneswar: Students of Rama Devi (RD) Women’s University took to streets today reiterating their demands for land for the second campus of the varsity and retention of autonomous status for its Plus-II & Plus-III colleges. The students argued that Rama Devi was famous as a college and the Plus-II and Plus-III students are its identity.  […]