Bhubaneswar: Netizens worldwide are busy baring their heart out, be it frustration against bosses or exes or love and laughter for crushes or friends, thanks to Internet’s latest infatuation, the Sarahah app. Odias too can’t stop having their share of fun with the ‘honesty’ app that lets the user remain anonymous. Saudi developer Zain al-Abidin […]
Balangir: The dead bodies of four Odias, who were killed in a road accident in Gangtok recently, reached here late on Friday night. A pal of gloom descended on Talpalipada village of the district when the dead bodies arrived here for burial. The deceased have been identified as Michael Bag, his wife Minu Bag, daughter […]
Bolangir: In a tragic incident, four Odias including three members of a family died in a road accident at Gangtok in Sikkim. The deceased include a couple and their daughter of Talapalipada villlage of Bolangir district. According to sources four Odia families had gone to Gangtok for the summer vacation in two vehicles. One of […]
Bhubaneswar: As part of the Biju Patnaik Himalaya Abhiyan-2016, 15 Odia mountaineers will begin their expedition from September 20. The team comprising nine male and six female members will set off its expedition to scale 5819 metre Rudugera mountain peak in the Himalayan region in Uttarakhand. The expedition will conclude on October 5. To be […]
Bhubaneswar: The five Odia labourers who had gone to Dubai in search of work a year ago, finally reached Odisha today. The labourers, who were tortured since five months as the company in which they were working stopped their salary, were rescued with the help two NGOs. Talking to media persons after their arrival at […]
From utter despondency to a flicker of hope, it was an extraordinary turnaround of moods for millions of Odias in the course of a few hours on Tuesday. The morning began with collective breast-beating after news of Bengal getting the coveted Geographical Indication (GI) tag for rosogulla spread like wildfire. By evening, however, it had […]
By Sandeep Sahu By now, everyone who knows him knows his ways. Maverick former Supreme Court judge Markandey Katju revels in offending people, communities, states and everything else that one can think of. So, aren’t we Odias falling into his trap and obliging him by giving him what he craves most – attention – by […]
By Sandeep Sahu There are two kinds of Odias. The first, clearly in a majority, think he is the best thing that has happened to Odisha since independence. That he is the ‘outsider’ who has made Odisha his home and has done what none of the ‘insiders’ who preceded him could; he is honest to […]
Bhubaneswar: Union Petroleum and Steel Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Tuesday sought intervention of Union External Affairs and Civil Aviation Ministry in introducing direct flights for repatriation of Odias stranded in various other countries during Covid pandemic. Commending the work undertaken by the government in bringing back Indians hit by Covid crisis during stay in foreign […]