Tag: Budhia Singh

Bhubaneswar/New Delhi: Well known Kenyan coach Patrick Sang has offered to find a sponsor for the 16-year-old marathon talent Budhia Singh from Odisha and train him at Kenya. “After all the assessment and test of his potential, if Budhia is found to be OK, then I’m willing to find a sponsor and train him in […]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha’s wonder marathon boy Budhia Singh has been invited to attend Mount Everest Peace Torch March run in Nepal from May 15. The child prodigy runner from the state will be the torchbearer of ‘Buddha’s flame’ along with other eminent marathoners who will cover the entire Kapilvastu kingdom. Later, the team will split and […]

Bhubaneswar: Gangster Raja Acharya, the prime convict in murder of Judo coach and child prodigy Budhia Singh’s trainer Biranchi Das, was released by the District and Sessions Court here following the Supreme Court ruling. The bail was granted by the apex court on execution of surety of Rs 1 lakh. Moreover, the bail was granted […]

Bhubaneswar: The people in Odisha on Friday gave thumbs up to the movie “Budhia Singh Born To Run” as they chorused that the wonder boy deserves the chance to live — er, run — his dream. The first day of the film saw a big rush at the cinema halls in the capital city and […]

Bhubaneswar: Manoj Bajpayee starrer “Budhia Singh – Born To Run” hit the screens across the country today. Directed by Soumendra Padhi, “Budhia Singh – Born To Run” is a biopic about Budhia Singh, who ran an incredible 48 marathons — one of which was the 65-km distance between Puri to Bhubaneswar – even before he […]

Boy wonder Budhia Singh, who left everyone guessing about his whereabouts for nearly a month before returning to Odisha last week, today left for New Delhi with his mother for the promotion of “Budhia Singh, Born to Run”, the Hindi film based on his phenomenal story of becoming the world's first child marathoner at the tender age of four

Bhubaneswar: Two days after his return from Mumbai at the end of a month-long ‘vacation’, wonder boy Budhia Singh today made it abundantly clear that he is not going back to the State-run sports hostel here where he had been staying since being separated from his coach and mentor Biranchi Das nine years ago. In […]

Ending all speculation, boy wonder Budhia Singh and his mother Sukanti Singh returned to Bhubaneswar from Mumbai this evening

Bhubaneswar: Six days after the Child Welfare Committee (CWC), Khurda district sent a notice to Ajit Andhare, producer of ‘Budhia Singh: Born to Run’, a film based on the amazing story of child marathoner Budhia Singh of Odisha, asking for the whereabouts of the wonder kid, Andhare on Friday sent a letter to CWC requesting […]

A day after Twin City Police Commissioner confirmed boy wonder Budhia Singh and his mother Sukanti Singh are in Kodaikanal of Tamil Nadu on a vacation, the Child Welfare Committee (CWC) of Khurda district today demanded the statements of the mother-son duo be recorded under Sec 161 and 164 of CrPC after their return to Bhubaneswar

Bhubaneswar: A day after Child Welfare Committee (CWC), Khurda, asked commisionerate police to trace prodigal marathon runner Budhia Singh, Nayapalli police today registered a case of abduction regarding the disappearance of the wonder boy. The case has been registered under section 363 of Indian Penal Code (Kidnapping), sources said. A police team has also quizzed […]

Intensifying its search for missing boy wonder Budhia Singh, the Child Welfare Committee (CWC), Khurda district today served a notice to movie producer Subhamitra Sen regarding the matter and asked him to reply within three days

Bhubaneswar: With Budhia Singh, the boy wonder who had raised bright hopes for Odisha and the country in the marathon event ten years ago, still missing, the Child Welfare Committee (CWC) of Khurda has sought a report on his whereabouts from the Odisha Sports and Youth Affairs department within three days. According to sources, the […]

While suspense on the whereabouts of the wonder marathon boy Budhia Singh continues, an Odia film director making a film on the life of the teenager has informed that Budhia is scheduled to arrive in Mumbai in the third week of this month for promotion of his film

Bhubaneswar: A day after the news of the absence of Budhia Singh, the boy wonder who had raised hopes for Odisha and the country in the marathon event ten years ago, at the sports hostel was aired on leading Odia news channel OTV, the Sports and Youth Affairs department woke up from its deep slumber […]