Finance minister Arun Jaitley, in his budget speech, announced to commemorate the Paika Rebellion, an armed uprising against the British East India company in Khurda area of Odisha in 1817 bringing cheers among people across the state. “Two-hundred years ago…
IPS officer Amulya Patnaik has been appointed to be the next Police Commissioner of Delhi. He will succeed Alok Verma. With Alok Verma becoming the CBI Director, Patnaik was one of the frontrunners for the post along with Deepak Mishra…
National Law University, Odisha defeated Symbiosis Law School, Pune in the finals of the super-prestigious 58th edition of the Jessup International Moot Competition this year. Both the semi -finals and finals were extremely intriguing for all the participant teams. The…
An alumnus of the National Institute of Design (Ahmedabad), a computer science graduate, a trained Bharatanatyam dancer and a yoga enthusiast; Shalini dons many hats. However, what makes this talented lady’s profile truly remarkable is her passion and resolve to…
Odia boy Ashish Panda has directed the beautiful romantic music album “Kabhi Yaadon Mein” for T-series. On Friday T-series released the reprised version of its video featuring Divya Khosla Kumar. The title track of the album is in the voice…
The story of the bhakti poet Jayadeva is now on stage, thanks to Bombay Gnanam’s Mahalakshmi Ladies’ Drama Group. As with all of Gnanam’s projects, this too involved a lot of research. Gnanam consulted Hariji, Visakha Hari, and Nochur…
In a first-of-its-kind initiative in micro-finance post-demonetisation, 60,000 small borrowers from six small villages in Odisha are leading the way towards cashless transactions. This was made possible thanks to a pilot done by Bharat Financial Inclusion (formerly SKS Microfinance) for…
Satarupa Mohapatra writes : This 79 year old mausa( retired home guard ) has been feeding peacocks in the hills around Athagarh in Odisha. He says there are around 60 peacocks living in that area who come to feed daily…
Dr Mukut Minz, who led the kidney transplant surgery on Union Minister Sushma Swaraj recently, was among four personalities from Odisha to be selected for the Padma Shri Awards. Besides him, cine star Sadhu Meher, folk singer Jitendra Haripal and…
The government today released the list of Padma award winners – one of the highest civilian awards of the country. The awards are given in various fields of activities from art, social work to public affairs, science and engineering, trade, industry, medicine, literature, education…