Tag: Odia

Bhubaneswar: Criticism poured in from all quarters of the society today over the Facebook post of former Supreme Court judge Justice Markandey Katju on Odias. Describing the situation to be ‘different’ had Justice Katju made comments on people of other States like the one on Odias, former Police Commissioner of Mumbai Arup Patnaik said, “The […]

Bhubaneswar: All government letters, files and other official work at government offices across Odisha will be carried out in Odia from today. Though it came rather late in the day, the implementation of the Odia Official Language Act-1954 after the rules under it were approved by the cabinet recently has fulfilled the long-standing demand of […]

An Odia officer of Indian Air Force (IAF) has allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself in Gwalior in Madhya Pradesh where he was posted

Despite police complaint lodged on the illegal telecast of Odia movie ‘Love Station’ in a local cable service in Jagatsighpur when the movie is in theatre, inaction of the local police has raised eyebrows of many in the film industry

Puri: With preparation for Bahuda Jatra of Lord Jagannath and his siblings have reached final stage in Puri, OTV is all geared up to bring all the actions live for its viewers from Puri. WATCH LIVE HINDI WATCH LIVE ODIA While, people just can tune into OTV channel for the live telecast of the annual […]

The Odisha Assembly on Friday witnessed an uproar following Speaker Niranajan Pujari’s refusal to allow a motion moved by Congress members demanding a debate on Odia as the official language

Odisha Assembly Speaker Niranjan Pujari adjourned the House till 3 pm on Thursday as the din demanding implementation of the Official Language Act in the State from today continued

Odisha Assembly Speaker Niranjan Pujari adjourned the House till 3 pm on Thursday as the din demanding implementation of the Official Language Act in the State from today continued

Bhubaneswar: Rajya Sabha MP and Odisha Jana Morcha (OJM) chief Pyari Mohan Mohapatra on Saturday took potshots at chief minister Naveen Patnaik for not learning Odia language in the past 16 years. “I am surprised that he has not shown any interest in learning the Odia language. How can you rule a State without knowing […]

Bhubaneswar: Google on Monday said that its “Files Go” app is now available in the Odia language. Files Go is a storage manager that helps users free up space on their phones, find files faster and shares them offline with others. “Smartphone users with data storage capacity of as low as 4GB often struggle to […]

New Delhi: National Award winning filmmaker Nila Madhab Panda on Thursday said that his new film “Kadvi Hawa” is not aimed at scaring people or educating them with facts regarding various environmental issues. He wants to make the audience “conscious” about the remaining natural resources that humans are left with. “Kadvi Hawa”, touted to be […]

New Delhi: Amulya Kumar Patnaik, who has been appointed as Commissioner of Delhi Police, will have one of the longest tenures as the head of the force. Patnaik, who is 57-year-old, will retire in January 2020, thereby allowing him to serve at the top position of Delhi Police for almost three years. A 1985-batch officer […]

Bhubaneswar: Blaming Odisha government for not facilitating local students to appear for the National Eligibility Entrance Test (NEET) in their mother tongue, Union Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan today appealed the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare to reconsider its decision. “In the larger interest of the students of the state I request you to reconsider […]

Prominent woman athlete Purnima Hembram was today conferred with the prestigious Biju Patnaik Sports Award while Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik also felicitated six other Odia girls, who participated in the Rio Olympics, on the National Sports Day

Let us put the state government aside for a moment and stop doing a post-mortem of what it did or didn’t do, whether it did right or wrong, what it could have and couldn’t have done and so on. Here is a poser for every English reading Odia who happens to read this piece. Should […]