An eight-year old Indian-origin child prodigy is among experts who will address a cyber security conference starting Thursday where Minister of State for External Affairs VK Singh is also listed as a keynote speaker. In his address at the summit…
Lighting the lives of Thousands in Koraput Odisha
The story of Kudub, a village in Orissa’s Koraput district, was no different from nearly a third of India’s rural landscape. Every day the setting sun would steal away the last rays of hope for the villagers to prepare for…
Inspiring: The Child Reporters of Odisha, when you empower children to write….
Outside very classroom in Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidhyalaya, a government-run residential girls’ school in the tribal village of Aligaon, is a bulletin board with pages and pages of news from the area. There are stories on alcoholism, failing government programmes, and…
Odisha boy overcomes disability to win Barista championship, lands job with Bhubaneswar cafe coffee day
From an afternoon cappuccino to dessert espressos, Gurudev Hansdah’s hearty mugs of coffee are a hit at a coffee shop at Ram Mandir Square. What is so special about this 20-year-old is that he brews these magical flavours with just…
Watch Odisha Rockstar Rituraj Mohanty enthral you with Nadan Parindey and vote for him too
Watch Odisha rock star Rituraj Mohanty sing Nadan Parindey and hold the audience spell bound today. To vote for him just give missed call on 18008339007. Here is the performance of last week from Rituraj where he accepted the challenge and…
Bangalore to copy from Bhubaneswar police idea: ATM-like kiosks to file complaints
Lodging a police complaint will be as easy as withdrawing cash from an ATM, if an initiative of Bengaluru police sees the light of day. Walk into an ATM-like kiosk in the neighbourhood and narrate your complaint to the video…
A nice article on Discrimination against Dutee Chand – Calling nature a cheat
Governing bodies do not draw boundaries around the physical gifts of extraordinary male athletes, excluding them from competition because they are somehow “more than male.” Yet the International Association of Athletics Federations does do this with female athletes. Eighteen-year-old sprinter Dutee Chand is…
Inspiring: Meet this 16 yr old from Bhubaneswar teaching people from slums in spare time
If someday in the middle of a slum you find a teenage boy teaching children of nearly his age then don’t get surprise. If in the center of traffic a little boy approaches you with a poster highlighting his cause…
Bikram Mohanty from Odisha in race for US Senate elections for Georgia
A man from Odisha who had gone to the U.S. 20 years ago with just $50 in his pocket to seek a better life for himself and his family is a Democratic Party candidate for Georgia state Senate elections .…
Bhubaneswar police idea of Complaint Kiosk featured in foreign Media houses
The iClik is the brainchild of Joydeep Nayak, head of Odisha police’s human rights unit, who came up with the idea after the high-profile gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old woman aboard a Delhi bus in December 2012. The…