Good news for seafood lovers in the city. Now, you can get a huge variety of fresh seafood delivered at home. Four students, including an engineering graduate and a diploma holder, are the faces behind the service. Customers can call…
Film with Odia Actor Devesh Ranjan to open Buddhist Film Festival Europe
‘Vara: A Blessing’, which is based in an Indian premise, is going to be the opening film at the 9th edition of the BUDDHIST FILM FESTIVAL EUROPE!The movie has Devesh Ranjan and Shahana Goswami in pivotal roles. Devesh Ranjan, the…
Bhubaneswar Loyola School Kids are only ones selected in Asia for Denmark meet
A group of five students from Loyola School in the city are busy preparing a best practice report and a film on the effect of climate change on children, which they will present at the upcoming plenary session of…
Inspiring: Security Guard from Odisha in Cognizant Technologies clears IAS
He was security guard and cracked IAS exam ! That is not less than “Mangalyaan” for a poor chap. Jothi Ranjan Bagarti is from Orissa and has been security guard for the last 14 years. His first attempt for…
The Odisha Oracle – An interesting read
It all started about five years ago… The Mani in my name, received a Forward about an Oracle in a village – Kakatpur by name – in Orissa . We were stunned to read about this Oracle. It created a…
India’s first Street Store in Bhubaneswar opened, a huge hit with poor people lined up
Bhubaneswar, notched up a rare first in India when it hosted the country’s first ‘The Street Store’, the world’s first rent-free, premises-free and pop-up clothing store where the homeless choose whatever they like without having to pay anything. The event,…
I’ve become a big fan of Oriya people – writes Lone Gal Traveller
ORISSA – A state I had not prepared for…. ‘coz I didn’t have much info about it. Had heard lukewarm comments about it, but, as always, had kept an open mind when visiting Bhubaneshwar, during the ride. & Did this…
Odissi dancer featured in top 100 Creatives for 2014 in Houston USA Journal
It seems that for Shipra Mehrotra, a life in dance was always in the making. She began her training in Odissi, one of India’s eight classical dance forms, at an early age. In addition to learning Odissi at Washington D.C.’s…