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Time of India
10 hours ago
- General
- Time of India
OJEE e-counselling process begins
Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Joint Entrance Examination (OJEE) committee under the skill development and technical education department started the registration and choice filling process for e-counselling for and Integrated MSc courses, on Friday. On July 3, the choice lock facility will be activated. Candidates will choose their colleges and lock their choices by midnight on July 4. The first round allotment will be displayed on OJEE website on July 8. Candidates will report online for admission between July 8 and July 11. The second round allotment list will be published on July 19. Online reporting for this round will be held between July 19 and 21. The second or Special Odisha Joint Entrance Examination (OJEE) will be conducted from July 23 to July 28 for admission into vacant seats of these courses following the first and second rounds. "Allotment to special OJEE candidates will be done from the vacant seats only. Therefore, care must be taken while filling the choice by second OJEE/special OJEE candidates," said OJEE chairman D P Satapathy. The third or final round allotment will be announced on Aug 1. Online reporting will be done for this round from Aug 1 to Aug 3. All candidates will physically report to the colleges or institutions on Aug 1, and the reporting will continue till Aug 6. "After final allotment, all candidates who paid part admission-cum-seat confirmation fee payment and verified their documents can download the final allotment letter and report to the finally allotted institute or college as per the schedule. Failing which, the allotment will be cancelled, and the vacant seats will be filled in institute or college level admission," said Satapathy. He said the e-counselling process will guide students on how to choose their colleges and courses based on their JEEMAIN-2025 or OJEE-2025 ranks as applicable. "Students need to read the counselling brochure and step-by-step process carefully and stay updated with new notices, if any," said the chairman.
New Indian Express
09-05-2025
- New Indian Express
Three arrested for cyber fraud, duping man of Rs 70 lakh in Odisha
BHUBANESWAR : City police on Thursday arrested three cyber fraudsters for allegedly duping a man of Rs 70 lakh by luring him to invest his money in share market on the promise of providing high returns. The accused - Rakesh Swain (18), Babul Swain (19) and Mithun Biswal (21) - belong to Nayagarh district and worked as masons and labourers. The victim, Satyaranjan Satapathy, had lodged a complaint in this connection on March 26. Police said Satapathy works as a data entry operator and wanted to make some extra money by doing a part-time job. In his complaint, Satapathy stated that he had received a link on WhatsApp offering a part-time job. After he clicked the link, he was directed to a Telegram group. Initially, the cyber fraudsters asked him to rate some business establishments on Google to make some easy money. They then lured him to invest in stock market and cryptocurrencies to get higher returns. Satapathy transferred the amount through unified payments interface on March 20 but later realised that he was scammed. 'The probe revealed that out of the total swindled amount, Rs 50,000 was transferred to the bank account of Rakesh. It was also ascertained that Babul and Mithun were engaged in collecting mule bank accounts for the cyber fraudsters who are mostly active in southern and western states,' said cyber crime and economic offences police station ACP, Akshaya Kumar Nayak. Three mobile phones and one ATM card were seized from them.
South China Morning Post
22-02-2025
- Health
- South China Morning Post
Parents who shed 50kg to be role models for son ‘feel like winners'
Published: 7:45am, 23 Feb 2025 When her seven-year-old son returned from school and announced, 'I am very stressed, I want pizza for lunch,' Chinchak Satapathy was stunned. 'I realised that my son had begun associating food with coping with stress ' from watching his parents, she says. 'I thought, 'What are we teaching our child'?' The moment, in October 2023, was a wake-up call for Satapathy and her husband, Himanshu Thakur. The corporate executives had moved with their then-toddler Ameya to Hong Kong from New Delhi in India in 2018. Both had been physically active while growing up, but began putting on the pounds once they started working – and even more during the Covid-19 pandemic . Himanshu Thakur weighed 110kg in this photo taken in March 2023. Photo: Chinchak Satapathy Chinchak Satapathy weighed 72kg in this photo taken in October 2022. Photo: Chinchak Satapathy 'We were stuck at home and found ourselves trapped in a cycle of stress and unhealthy eating. The stress fuelled the unhealthy eating, and the unhealthy eating created more stress,' Satapathy says. They were drinking alcohol three to four times a week either socially or alone at home.
