The much-awaited Wi-Fi facility in bhubaneswar is targeted to be completed within a year as the government has decided to set up 5,000 access points at different locations. At present, trial run of Wi-Fi is going on at six places…
Heard about India’s first crowd curated Novel by Odia XIMB Grad Uday Satpathy
Brutal, a thriller published by Bloody Good Book and Westland Books, is India’s first crowd-curated novel. The author Uday Satpathy takes the reader through a roller-coaster adventure of two journalists who find themselves in danger when they uncover links between…
OYO Rooms Founder from Odisha makes it into Forbes list of achievers under 30
22-year-old Ritesh Agarwal, founder and CEO of Oyo Rooms, is among the 45 Indians or Indian-origin people who have made it to Forbes’ annual list of achievers under the age of 30. The Forbes fifth annual ’30 Under 30′ list…
Sam Pitroda might be roped in as Technology Adviser to Odisha Govt
Odisha government is in the process of roping in telecom czar Sam Pitroda as an advisor (technology) to the state for the development of telecom, electronics, IT (information technology) and ITes (enabled services) sectors. Pitroda, who has his roots in…
IIT Bhubaneswar gets ready for its Socio cultural Fest Alma Fiesta this january
Alma Fiesta is the annual Socio-Cultural fest of IIT Bhubaneswar, heralded as the ‘Biggest Debutant fest of India’ by The Telegraph in its maiden year 2010. Alma Fiesta has grown to become a beacon of culture and social change. With…
Dutee Chand of Odisha Features in top 11 stories of female athletes by New York Times
Here is what New York Times wrote about Dutee 11 stories of female athletes who made their own rules in 2015 Across the globe this year, women and girls have proven they’re fierce competitors in of some of the world’s most…
Bhubaneswar getting ready to host inauguration of Hockey India League on Jan 18
Kalinga Lancers is all pumped up for the fourth edition of Hockey India League (HIL) scheduled to kick-start on January 18. The promotional campaign for Kalinga Lancers was inaugurated at IDCO Towers recently. The state based team would also carry a new logo themed…
India’s fourth Data center in bhubaneswar to be ready September 2016
40,000 square feet proposed National Informatics Center (NIC) data center in bhubaneswar is expected to get operational by September 2016. It was announced by Union Minister of Communications & Information Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad. Prasad highlighted the Bhubaneswar data center to…
An awesome reply by an Odia to : What was the impact of British rule on India?
I chanced upon this thread; the answers are pretty nice- but I found myself disagreeing with some people like Naman Goyal and Kris Punting (Pumpkin, eh? Pumpkin?) about how our ‘prejudice’ was colouring the way we look at the…
Have you seen Rajbhavan Bhubaneswar Garden yet? If not check the time to visit here
Raj Bhavan Gardens would be opened to the public from January 4 to 22 in the first phase. The garden would be re-opened to public from February 1 to 10 in second phase.