Tag: Utkala Dibasa

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday greeted the people of Odisha on the occasion of Odisha day – Utkala Diwas. “Wishing my sisters and brothers of Odisha on Utkala Dibasa. My best wishes for Odisha’s progress,” Modi tweeted. Odisha Day, also known as Utkala Diwas is celebrated on April 1 in Odisha in […]

Puri/Rourkela: Amid the celebratory mood across the state on Utkala Dibasa, which marked Odisha’s 80th birthday today; inadequate usage of Odia language fuelled protests across the State. Odisha Assembly has made it mandatory to use Odia language on signboards after passing the amendment bill on May 1, 2018. But, many have failed to comply with […]

By Sandeep Sahu [My sincere apologies at the very outset. The time for this particular piece was yesterday, which was the 84th Utkala Dibasa (the day Odisha was born as India’s first linguistic state back in 1936). But the issues it discusses, in my view, will remain relevant not just a day after D Day, […]