When eight women lined up for the 100 metres final at the 20th Federation Cup National Senior Athletics Championships in Delhi on April 28—the first event of the season for Indian athletes to qualify for the Rio Olympics–only one number…


Bhubaneswar is all set to host the men’s hockey WorldCup in 2018 and the World League final in 2017 at Kalinga Stadium. “The state is poised to host the hockey World League final next year and the prestigious men’s hockey…

Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and…

Launching the 2017 UK-India Year of Culture campaign in Odisha today, British Council India today evinced keen interest in forging partnership for skill development and research programmes in the state. Alan Gemmell OBE, Director of British Council India, who launched…

“Patriotism is the last refugee of a scoundrel,” said Samuel Johnson, the famous English writer, in the 18th century. At different times, patriotism has been replaced by religion or politics to make the point. The quote kept propping up in…

SPOILERS ALERT A Bollywood sports film is usually an awkward creature. It tends to be a loud, lumbering beast prone to melodramatic flab and excessive deification. Mercifully, first-time writer-director Soumendra Padhi’s Budhia Singh – Born to Run isn’t one. It…

FIDE World Junior Chess Championship 2016 (for boys & girls under 20) will be held at Bhubaneswar, Odisha, INDIA from 7th August (arrival) to 22nd August (departure) 2016. The Championship will be organized and conducted by All Odisha Chess Association…

We take the pleasure in introducing ‘Odisha without Border’ (OwB), the apex organisation of all Odia organisations worldwide and a Civil Society Think-tank, an apolitical body aiming at uniting all Odias across the globe for the development of Odisha and…

In the glorious chapters of the history of journalism in India, Odisha with her history of over one hundred years of journalism occupies a place of pride and honour. In 1662 the first newspaper of London was published. In India the…