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Bhubaneswar shortlisted for FIFA U-17 Women Football World Cup 2020

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Bhubaneswar, May 22 (LocalWire): Bhubaneswar is among five venues shortlisted by the All India Football Federation (AIFF) for the FIFA U-17 Women Football World Cup, an official said.

The other venues include Kolkata, Goa, Ahmadabad and Mumbai. A FIFA committee is currently inspecting the cities and the stadiums to check if they meet the requirements, the official added.

The FIFA committee is inspecting the sites in collaboration with Ahmadabad-based Transtadia Arena.

The AIFF had recently won a bid to host the world cup. The Kalinga Stadium Bhubneshwar is one of the preferred sites for the tournament.

A total of 16 teams will compete in the tournament to take place next year.

In 2017, India had hosted the FIFA Men U-17 World Cup.

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KIIT selected for Boeing innovation programme

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Bhubaneswar, May 21 (LocalWire): The KIIT University here has been selected for the Boeing University Innovation Leadership Development (BUILD) programme to encourage startups, students and faculty members for innovative ideas in the field of aerospace and defence.

“The aim behind ‘Build’ is to help creative minds and innovators to convert their raw ideas into assets for the Indian aerospace and defence sectors,” KITT said in a statement.

KIIT is among six other Indian institutions selected for the Boeing India innovation programme.

Besides KIIT, Boeing has partnered with incubators like IIT Bombay, IIT Madras, IIT Delhi, IIT Gandhinagar, IISc Banglore and T-Hub Hyderabad.

The domains in which students can submit their ideas include: aerospeace, internet of things, machine learning, autonomous vehicles, artificial intelligence, augmented and virtual reality.

The participants can submit their ideas by June 10.

The qualifying teams from these institutes will go through a regional-level competition. The finalists will present their ideas to a panel of experts on Boeing Innovation Day to be held in September 2019.

The winners will bag cash prizes and a chance to interact with Boeing experts.


Currently, Being India employs 3,000 people in India and many alumnus of KIIT University also work in the company.

Boeing had earlier organised programs like Horizon X Innovation Challenge and Accelerated Aircraft Maintenance Engineers Apprenticeship as part of its contribution to the Indian aerospace sector.

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TiE-BIRAC award for woman entrepreneur

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Bhubaneswar, March 29 (LocalWire): Sumona Karjee Mishra, an entrepreneur and founder of a startup, Prantae Solutions, won the TiE-BIRAC award for entrepreneur research recently.

Mishra designed a smartphone-enabled device Proflo-U that can measure protein microalbumin from urine and help help early detection of kidney disorders.

Also, it can help cure hypertension, diabetes and pre-eclampsia.

She received the patent for Proflo-U device from the Centre.

Tata Trust-Harvard SAI, DBT BIRAC SIIP and BPCL funded and supported the making of the device.

She says, ‘The need of the hour is translation of technology for the welfare of mankind and better living.’

Being a mother, her prime focus is to spread awareness regarding maternal and child health.

 

She is promoting the skill-based programmes for women in India and her venture involves the skilled and semi-skilled in the implementation of medical technology in the country.

She was also awarded the Young Entrepreneur Scheme organized by DBT, India.

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We’re nothing but stories, says KIIT alumni and storyteller

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Bhubaneswar, March 25 (LocalWire): Amandeep Singh has come a long way from his campus days at KIIT University to become a professional storyteller and successful YouTube video producer.

Although an IT engineer at Accenture, Mumbai, he’s more popular for his abilities in story-telling, stage shows and YouTube video productions — his favorite pastime.

Amandeep had recently won the YouTube Silver Creator award for his YouTube channel that boasts over 171K subscribers. His recent video “Tum aisi hi acchi ho” alone had registered over 3 million views.

Asked about his journey, he said he was always interested in participating in school and college functions.

He remembers winning a silver medal for a poetry recitation in his nursery class. “I took part in elocution, hosted school annual functions and represented school in national and international debate competitions,” said Amandeep.

During his final year at KIIT, Singh forayed into theaters and also hosted that year’s KIIT Fest.

He had hosted shows with celebrities like Kunal Kapoor, Sourav Shukla, classmates of Barack Obama and UN dignitaries. He also worked with Rahat Indori, Javer Akthar and Karan Johar in Spoken Fest.

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Spend a fairytale vacation at Belgadia palace

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Mayurbhanj, March 19 (LocalWire): How about living life kingsize, or for that matter queensize for some days and enjoy the pampering only reserved for royals?

Meet Mrinalika and Akshita M Bhanj Deo who can turn your dreams to reality.

The sister duo, daughters of Praveen Chandra Bhanjdeo, the ruler of the Bhanja dynasty of Mayurbhanj, has re-opened the gates of Belgadia Palace, that is just 3.5 hours away from Kolkata, Bhubaneshwar and Jamshedpur to the common man.

‘Part of the palace has been turned into a boutique hotel after extensive restoration work. We preserved the antique furniture that were handcrafted for the royal family,’ said Mrinalika.

They spent initial childhood days in Kolkata and then went abroad for their higher studies. But there was always a desire to return and do something to help their native state prosper.

The idea of taking in strangers at their erstwhile home and treating them to a lifetime experience clicked and the entrepreneur in them set to work.

They replicated the Buckingham Palace and redesigned 25 rooms with different themes and colours to suit modern tastes.

The sisters involved the locals as staff and trained them properly. The family, too, actively engages with the guests. The sisters also act as tourist guides when people visit the palace.

The palace tour is complete with tours to temples, wildlife parks, waterfalls and colonial heritage tours. Simlipal, India’s second largest biosphere is a few hours from here.

‘To be a royal in this era doesn’t only mean holding the pride or behaving like one but rather try and become a curator of their own heritage. We will, one day, surely change the way the world perceives Odisha,’ says Akshita.

By profession, Mrinalika is a professional yoga teacher and organises yoga sessions abroad and Akshita is the brand strategist of Global Citizen India and they contribute their income to NGOs for sports education of young girls and to preserve dying Odia arts like Mayurbhanj’s Chhau, a martial arts form.

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