Even as the dispute between the states of Odisha and Chhattisgarh over Mahanadi river water is becoming rife and has snowballed into a major fight between the governments as well as political parties, a group of civil society organisations, river and water experts, academicians from across the country and community members from the basin have […]
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Everything you want to know about Niranjan Patnaik
The All India Congress Committee (AICC) has appointed senior leader Niranjan Patnaik as the president of the Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC). As per an official press release issued on Thursday (Apr 19), Congress president Rahul Gandhi appointed Niranjan Patnaik with immediate effect. Here are a few things to know about Odisha Congress chief Niranjan […]
Declining catch forces Chilika fishers to become migrant laborers
It was forenoon. In Mangalajodi village, the familiar sight of women sitting in their verandahs and mending fishing nets was missing. The change in the landscape was apparent since many of the villagers have quit fishing, their traditional occupation. Mangalajodi, with a 5,000-odd population, is on the banks of Chilika, the brackish water lagoon on […]
Pigeon Tales: A flight back in time
Bhubaneswar, Apr 14 (odisha.in): The Indian National Trust for Arts and Cultural Heritage (INTACH) held a heritage flight of Carrier Pigeons of the Odisha Police Pigeon Service from Bhubaneswar to Cuttack. The fifty pigeons that were flown from the Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology (OUAT) grounds carried a missive with a message on heritage […]
10 things about GATE topper Jyotiranjan Barik
Odisha boy Jyotiranjan Barik has topped the all-India Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) examination 2018. GATE is a qualifying examination for admissions to post-graduate programs like M.E., M.Tech, direct Ph.D. in Indian institutes of higher education where financial support is provided by the Ministry of Human Resource Development and other government agencies. The results […]