WHAT began as a childhood interest in the folk dances of his Ganjam home district in Odisha (Orissa), India, has brought Gajendra Panda today acclaim as an odissi master. Soon to perform in Malaysia with a festival called Arpana, he…
Ganjam District in Odisha : where blackbuck are dearer than sons, a great read
Residents of 70 villages in this district sustain more than 3,000 of the antelopes The logic is irrefutable, but no one has tested it. Farmers in southern Odisha say when herbivores crop the tops of their crops, profits increase.…
Beautiful Tampara Wetland in Ganjam all set to get a facelift via Centre’s Swadesh Darshan Scheme
Tampara, a wetland near Chatrapur in Ganjam district on the National Highway 5, will get a facelift of Rs 33.44 crore under the Centre’s Swadesh Darshan Scheme. A five-member expert team visited Tampara yesterday to prepare a blueprint for the…
Inspiring Journey of Kailash Sahu from a small Ganjam Village to one of World’s leading astronomers
He has grown up watching the night sky. Today the world is looking up to him. Hemanta Pradhan retraces the journey of Kailash Chandra Sahu from a nondescript Ganjam village to one of the planet’s leading astronomers There are more…
Fishing harbour to come up in Ganjam district with an investment of Rs 100 crore
A project to set up a full-fledged fishing harbour near Sana Arjipalli in Ganjam district is likely to start soon. To be constructed at an estimated cost of Rs.100 crore, the proposed project will have all modern facilities. Around 1,000…
Nurse Krishna Kumari from Ganjam gets Florence Nightingale award
Krishna Kumari a health worker in Ganjam district, has bagged the prestigious Florence Nightingale award 2017. The fifty-year-old woman received the award from President Pranab Mukherjee at a function at the Rastrapati Bhawan in New Delhi on Friday on the…
South Chilika Coast – Back in Time : A nice Blog by Jitu Mishra of Virasat E Hind
It was a sultry September night of 1996 and I was camping in a government dak bungalow in a small town, Huma in Odisha’s Ganjam District. I, along with my mentor Prof K.K. Basa, was surveying the southern coast of…
Bainkuntha Nath Mohapatra becomes first Odia to be appointed as Railway Board Financial Commissioner
Bainkuntha Nath Mohapatra becomes first Odia to be appointed as Railway Board Financial Commissioner at Railway Board, New Delhi. Before this he was working as Additional Member/Finance of Railway Board at New Delhi. He has a Post Graduate with Political Science from…
Hanging Library : An innovative library movement project from Odisha dragging national attention for good
Schoolchildren in Ganjam district of Odisha are being lured into the reading and writing habit in an entertaining manner through a unique project named ‘Drop Everything and Read’ (DEAR). DEAR, an innovative interactive library movement project, was initiated in the…
INSV Tarini : Indian Navy’s second ocean-going sailboat named after Tara Tarini Temple in odisha
The Indian Navy’s second ocean-going sailboat INSV Tarini will be inducted in Goa today. The induction will take place at the INS Mandovi Boat Pool in presence of Indian Navy chief, Admiral Sunil Lanba. INSV Tarini is slated to be…