Today is the Birthday of the legendary Odia singer Akshaya Mohanty. Like Kishore Kumar, he was a virtuoso, a multifaceted artist. Though more famous as a versatile singer, the lyricist in him penned many songs. The all rounder in him…
An old Interview with Legend Of Odia Music : Akshaya Mohanty aka Khoka Bhai
Pramila Kirsani of Odisha wins Gold at Commonwealth Weightlifting Championship
Prominent woman weightlifter of Odisha Pramila Kirsani won a gold medal in the junior 53kg event of the Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships at Pune, Monday. Pramila lifted a total of 189kg, including 80kg in snatch and 109kg in clean & jerk…
X-Athon’15: Run for a cause, Save the girl child : Marathon by XIMB completed
XsteC- the Xpressions steering committee of XIMB, as a prelude to Xpressions’15 organized the 10km marathon, X-Athon. This was the second year that X-Athon was organized on such a large scale with 1400 registrations. The Regional Director of SBI Life…
Remembering Akshaya Mohanty on his birth date today : A Legend of Odia Music
Akshaya Mohanty was born to Bichitrananda Mohanty and Subarna Manjari Mohanty of Bankimundai, Chandol, Kendrapara at jagannathballabh of Cuttack city on 12 October 1937. Akshaya had no formal training in music. At the age of 22 in 1956, he joined…
Coming soon Ropeway at Dhauli after Light and Sound Show went Live recently
Odisha tourism is planning to add a ropeway service to Dhauli and a musical fountain near the Parabodhi pond on the foothill of the monument. The department has already earmarked Rs 1 crore for the installation of the ropeway and Rs 3…
Odisha gets a new Online Bus Ticket Booking Company with almost all routes covered
Odisha is going to get an online bus ticket booking service by ODBUS. Their website .i.e. www.odbus.in and service both all set to go live from 15th October 2015. This online ticket booking service is being launched to provide every traveler the convenience…
XIMB Bhubaneswar Marathon for Support the Girl Child Generates Rs 75k for CRY India
IGIT Sarang Presents Odisha’s first World Cube Association Rubiks Cube Compeition
Team at IGIT sarang writes to Bhubaneswar Buzz : It’s a matter of immense pleasure for us and rest of odisha that we are conducting our first World Cube Association(WCA) competition in Odisha “HORIZON CUBE OPEN 2016”. Incidentally this is…
A nice discussion on Tendency of many Odias to talk in Hindi or English these days
Sambeet Dash Writes : The other day in a Facebook group, couple of Odias were chatting in Hindi. “YEH PHOTO DIKHAI NAHI DETA”, said one Ms. Pati. ” ZOOM KARKE DEKHO, AAPKO SAHI DIKHAI DEGA”, responded Mr. Mohanty. Unable to…