Citizens of Bhubaneswar can now lodge complaints online for civic issues. Be it health, park, drainage, roadways, street lightening and sanitation, your queries will be solved. The sanjog helpline will work through a call centre which will channel the grievances to the right official and department. Housing and urban development minister Sarada Prasad Nayak inaugurated the multi-lingual helpline www.sanjoghelpline.in. The moment a person lodges a complaint, a complaint ticket number will be raised which will be given to the person and immediately a SMS alert will be sent to the concerned official about the complain. If the complaint is not resolved within the given time, it will be escalated to the higher official. BMC has surely ensured its best to connect to the people.

Kar Clinic IVF Center, Bhubaneswar announces the birth of the first laser assisted hatching ICSI pregnancy of Odisha. We have started laser assisted hatching in our center since last 1year.We have achieved pregnancies in many older women using this technique previously, but this is our first live birth and first in Odisha after laser assisted hatching. Assisted hatching is a procedure in which the zona(shell) of the embryo is opened using the technique of micro manipulation. This facilitates its hatching in the uterus and improves implantation and pregnancy rates. Pregnancy rates rises upto 70% with this technique.
Previously chemical method was used for assisted hatching, with often detrimental results. Now a days to enhance the pregnancy rates, the laser technology is used for assisted embryo hatching. In this technique, the diode laser beam is focused over the zona, so as to thin out "The Zona" at a point generally ¼ of the embryo circumference (10-20 microns) in order to facilitate embryo hatching. The entire procedure is completed in a few milliseconds. Laser assisted hatching is particularly useful for older women (more than 35 years),with oocytes showing a thick zona and women who have had previous failed IVF/ICSI attempts.
We used this technique in a 36 year old lady with 4 prior failed attempts to achieve pregnancy by ICSI done elsewhere. We used our laser assisted hatching for her and she got pregnant. She had an uneventful antenatal period. She delivered a male child weighing 2.5 kilos on 28th June 2011.
The laser technique can also be used for sperm tail cutting to immobilize it before ICSI procedure. It is also used to make an opening in the ZONA through which a single cell is aspirated at the time of pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis.
Laser Assisted Hatching is appropriate where female is >35 years of age, previous IVF cycles have failed,female has thickened embryo shells(Zona). Generally, the need for ICSI and laser assisted hatching should be individually evaluated during IVF infertility treatment.
Along with Laser Assisted Hatching, in our IVF center we have most developed IVF treatments like Blastocyst culture, Trigas culture, cryopoceservation of oocytes & embryo, Frozen embryo transfer etc. So patients who have dealt with the failure of IVF cycles elsewhere despite having viable embryos, now have golden opportunity to undergo sophisticated IVF/ICSI using the latest technologies at our center.

A cricket match was held between Star XI and Ranji veterans at Cuttack Barabati stadium. The match had a motto to raise charity for Children at Vasundhara destitute home situated at gatipatna road, cuttack. The Star XI team was led by Ollywood superstar Anubhav, along with Pupinder and several other Ollywood stars. The crowd was overwhelmed to meet their stars. The Match was shown live on Tarang Music. Orissa Cricket Association also supported cause. "Prelude live" the entertainment Partner of the charity match supported the cause with their own Rockband Vighnanz & singers from Voice of Odisha . Viraj, Amrita, Smruti, Auroshis the finalist of VOO performed at the occasion.

State Chief Secretary Bijay Kumar Patnaik on Monday reviewed the progress of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS)-like institution here and expressed that project would be completed by 2012. "The construction work was a bit delayed due to some minor hindrances. But the issues have been solved and we hope that the construction work of the project would end by 2012," Chief Secretary Bijay Kumar Patnaik said.

Berhampur: The much awaited hatchlings of endangered Olive Ridley sea turtles emerged near Rushikulya river mouth off Ganjam coast on Friday.

The process didn’t got delayed as speculated by the wildlife experts delayed due to low temperature and cloudy weather in the area. Thousands of baby turtles started their journey towards the sea.

Around 2.54 lakh Olive Ridley female turtles had laid eggs from March 3 to 5 in the area between Gokharakuda and Kantiagada, one of the famous rookeries for this endangered species. After laying eggs, female turtles returned to the sea. This is one of the nature's rare phenomena where babies grow sans mothers. Besides the forest staff, local volunteers were engaged for the safety of the little turtles before they crawled to the sea. The baby turtles are vulnerable as they are targeted by the hunting birds, wild dogs and jackals.

Under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Sri Naveen Pattnaik, a high level meeting was held in Secretariat of Odisha. Some decision have been taken to improve and develop the communication facility in Odisha.

Dr. Jyotirmayee Mohanty from Odisha is the first lady chemist of India to win the ‘Young Scientist’ for the year of 2010 on behalf of Asian & Oceania Photochemistry Association (APA) in Wellington, New Zealand. Dr. Jyotirmayee Mohanty presently working as a scientific officer at Premier Research Institute, Bhava Atomic Research Center.

The transport network between Bhubaneswar and Puri is set to become stronger before the Nabakalebara festival in 2015. The state government expects more than 50 lac devotees to reach Puri, hence the road communication has to be improved with a comprehensive mobility plan much prior 2015.

This was discussed at a meeting of the Urban Metropolitan Transport Authority (UMTA) today. Chief secretary Bijay Patnaik chaired the meeting.