MHRD India has appointed Bibhuti Bhusan Biswal, professor of industrial design and dean (faculty welfare) at the National Institute of Technology (NIT), Rourkela, as the new director of NIT Meghalaya. He headed the institute’s training and placement centre for over 12…
Winner of the first ever Sahitya Akademi Award (1955) for his novel, “AMRUTARA SANTANA” and the first recipient from Odisha, of the highest literary award of the country, Jnanpith (1974) for his epic fiction, “MATIMATALA”, Dr. Gopinath Mohanty dominated the…
To increase visual appeal, ensure cleanliness and ease traffic load around the 11th century Lingaraj shrine at Old Town in the city, the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) and the Bhubaneswar Urban Knowledge Centre (BUKC) which is an arm of BDA for…
After witnessing the mass nesting at Rushikulya, I had two more days left in Odisha. So I decided to visit Puri and Konark. This video covers hitchhiking, bus rides, bike rides while I travelled from Bhubaneswar to Puri to…
Swami Vivekanand National Institute of Rehabilitation Training and Research (SVNIRTAR), an autonomous institute run by the central government, at Olatpur in Cuttack district will expand its institute by adding 100 more beds in its hospital. SVNIRTAR, which is established for…
Amish is a 1974 born, IIM (Kolkata)-educated, boring banker turned happy author. The success of his debut book The Immortals of Meluha (Book 1 of the Shiva Trilogy), encouraged him to give up a fourteen-year-old career in financial services to…
Bhubaneswar is know as Temple City due to the fact that it owns large number of Hindu temples along with Jain Caves, Buddhist Monastery and ancient fort as well as a modern township yet does not have a single World…
Bainkuntha Nath Mohapatra becomes first Odia to be appointed as Railway Board Financial Commissioner at Railway Board, New Delhi. Before this he was working as Additional Member/Finance of Railway Board at New Delhi. He has a Post Graduate with Political Science from…
Odisha government is planning for its office to shift to digital payments. It has started the process for procurement and installation of Point of Sale (PoS) devices like mobile PoS and Aadhaar based payments. Apart from government offices, state-controlled PSUs and…
Union Railway minister Suresh Prabhu declared at a meeting in Pipili that famous appliqué work aka chandua will soon find a place on Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC)’s website of the Indian Railways for e-marketing.