Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and…
2017 UK-India Year of Culture launched in Odisha
Launching the 2017 UK-India Year of Culture campaign in Odisha today, British Council India today evinced keen interest in forging partnership for skill development and research programmes in the state. Alan Gemmell OBE, Director of British Council India, who launched…
Budhia Singh – Born To Run: An ode to Biranchi Sir – A blog by Sidhanta Patnaik
“Patriotism is the last refugee of a scoundrel,” said Samuel Johnson, the famous English writer, in the 18th century. At different times, patriotism has been replaced by religion or politics to make the point. The quote kept propping up in…
Budhia Singh : Born to Run is worth running all the way to multiplex says Review
SPOILERS ALERT A Bollywood sports film is usually an awkward creature. It tends to be a loud, lumbering beast prone to melodramatic flab and excessive deification. Mercifully, first-time writer-director Soumendra Padhi’s Budhia Singh – Born to Run isn’t one. It…
World Junior Chess Championship starts in Bhubaneswar from August 7-22
FIDE World Junior Chess Championship 2016 (for boys & girls under 20) will be held at Bhubaneswar, Odisha, INDIA from 7th August (arrival) to 22nd August (departure) 2016. The Championship will be organized and conducted by All Odisha Chess Association…
Swaviman Samaroh & 3rd Odisha without Border (OwB) Foundation Day on August 7 at Newdelhi
We take the pleasure in introducing ‘Odisha without Border’ (OwB), the apex organisation of all Odia organisations worldwide and a Civil Society Think-tank, an apolitical body aiming at uniting all Odias across the globe for the development of Odisha and…
Today is birthday of First Ever Odia Newspaper Utkala Deepika : First came in 4th August 1866
In the glorious chapters of the history of journalism in India, Odisha with her history of over one hundred years of journalism occupies a place of pride and honour. In 1662 the first newspaper of London was published. In India the…
Respect on Death Anniversary of Nandini Satpathy : Second woman ever to head Indian State
Popularly known as the Iron Lady of Odisha, Nandini Satpathy is the first woman chief minister of Odisha and the second woman to head an Indian State. She assumed office on 14th June, 1972. During her governance, the entire nation had been destabilised due…
Budhia Singh did not expect to come into limelight again, biopic on his life gives another chance
It’s been a decade since a four-year-old child from Odisha ran 65 km from Puri to Bhubaneswar in seven hours and two minutes. India’s youngest marathon runner, Budhia Singh, was greeted by hundreds at the finish line, and gained nation-wide…
Paradip Port continues its record growth on Cargo Handling, 32% more than previous July
The cargo handling growth story of Paradip Port among Indian Major Ports continues with a quantum jump in the cargo handled by the Port in the Month of July, 2016 when the Port in July,2016 handled a record throughput of…