Olive Ridley turtles have kept their date with Gahirmatha beach in Odisha’s Kendrapara district, known as world’s largest rookery of this endangered species, arriving just offshore for mating in large numbers. “Olive Ridley pairs have been seen floating near…
Tell us a little bit about your startup At MoCab we want to make travel simple and uncomplicated, that means, honest fares and safe rides. With the boom in taxi aggregator services, this has become possible however we want to take this…
A weapon museum, described as the first of its kind in the country, has come up in the premises of DRDO’s Proof and Experimental Establishment at Chandipur and boasts of the Vijayanta Tank, which played a major role in the…
In the last edition of the senior national badminton championship in Patna, 18-year-old Rutuparna Panda teamed up with her 12-year-old sister Swetaparna in the women’s doubles category, for lack of better options. The girls from Cuttack in Orissa had qualified…
The desire to go abroad and do well is not unique to Punjabis. The Odiyas too have a long history of it.And on this Saturday, when Punjabis will be celebrating Gurpurb, residents of the tricity hailing from Odisha will celebrate…
My cameraperson and I had driven from Visakhapatnam through Srikakulam to Bhubaneswar and then to Paradip, less than two days after the cyclone struck that year. As dusk came and we were a few kilometres into Odisha (then called Orissa),…
Now food lovers can enjoy lip-smacking fish delicacies at various places across the city. Chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday inaugurated fleet of food trucks under the banner of Fish on Wheels. Besides, the CM also inaugurated an ultra-modern Chilika…
When we talk about the differently-abled people making the state proud, we certainly talk about the Odisha visually impaired cricket team. Led by international all-rounder Md Jafar Iqbal, this team has won the national championship last year and are East…
From first week of November, the state tourism department intends to start a special drive, encouraging citizens in Bhubaneswar to provide homestay facilities to tourists. The tourism department will accord licence to house owners, who register themselves with the former.…
VSSUT Burla has achieved new feat in the field of Innovation and Technology by creating Odisha’s first Student made low cost fully customizable open source 3D printer. 3D Printing creates three dimensional solid objects from a digital file. Prototypes or…