State-owned Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) has licensed a pipe coating facility at its Rourkela division to discover the niche market of coated pipes.

Mr. S.K. Roongta, the company’s chairman, kicked off the plant at Rourkela steel plant, some 378 km from Orissa's capital Bhubaneswar Friday.

Mr. Rahman Khan, deputy general manager (Public relations) Rourkela Steel Plant, gave the information.

Rourkela, Sep 10 : The Maoists blew up a railway track and at least four government buildings in Orissa''s Sundargarh district today.

According to police sources, the rebels blasted railway tracks at around seven places between Bimlagarh and Patangi.

They also blew up an abandoned police station building at Kalta, another building where a CRPF camp was functioning earlier, a community centre and office building of CITU.

Train services between Rourkela and Barsuan have been completely disrupted due to the blasts. There was no report about any casualty in the attacks.

National Institute of Technology, Rourkela (NIT-R) has signed a MoU with the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), Government of India, to establish a graduate fellowship scheme in various engineering disciplines.

Under the arrangement, the students will be admitted in the M Tech programme and some best students will be given a job in the Atomic Energy department directly while continuing his education.  

In addition, the selected students will get Rs 20,000 as allowance instead of Rs 8000 per month.   

The clash between rational and disciples of astrology has been continuing for hundreds of years.

The first group believes that astrology is a mere superstition and a nice gambit to deceive people, while the later group has wide regards for it.

After the introduction of internet or other sophisticated technology, the attraction of Indian astrology knows no bounds.

The foundation of Indian astrology or Jyotisha is the idea of bandhu of the Vedas or scriptures, which is the link between the microcosm and the macrocosm.