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Bhubaneswar:  Caste-based discriminations and violence, Dalit oppressions and ill treatment are daily headlines. The mention of the very phrase ‘Dalit atrocity’ brings forth images of rural India plagued by caste-based discrimination. Recent instances like Rohith Vemula’s suicide and past years’ incidents such as 1997 gunning...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha State Archives, the state’s first archive, boasts of 10 crore pages of documents and undoubtedly has a rich repository of knowledge.  Established in 1960, the archives started functioning from a separate building 1971 onwards at Sachivalaya Marg here. With the aim to know...

Bhubaneswar: Commemorating the 38th death anniversary of legendary playback singer Mohammed Rafi, a musical concert Tum Mujhe Yun Bhula Na Payoge was organised by Geet Tarang at Soochna Bhavan here Tuesday. During the event the Geet Tarang Award was conferred to Pranab Kishore Patnaik, M...

Bhubaneswar: In a bid to aware the citizens about the consequences of deforestation and encourage them to plant trees, a plant distribution programme was organised by UDRA, a voluntary outfit, here Wednesday. The event was attended by Bhubaneswar North MLA Priyadarshi Mishra and Korei MLA...

  Very few know that Odisha is one of the rare states which has all the four types of puppetry flourishing, Rod puppetry being one of them. However, the age-old art has been struggling to find audience. And thus, comes the octogenarian Maguni Charan Kunwar...

Bhubaneswar: For the first time ever, the Sambalpuri Day was celebrated in the capital city, here Wednesday. Members of Western Odisha Yuva Mancha (WOYM), a cultural outfit, took out a motorcycle rally which witnessed a participation of around 200 bikers. The rally started from Master...

Bhubaneswar: The latest version of the song Dilbar of the 90’s iconic song Dilbar Dilbar from Sirf Tum (1999) starring Sushmita Sen and Sanjay Kapoor has been topping the charts. Its groovy tunes clocked more than 20 million hits in less than 24 hours, making it the first...

Bhubaneswar: A workshop-cum-training programme on medicinal plants in the state was organised by regional-cum-facilitation centre (RCFC- Eastern) of National Medicinal Plants Board (NMPB), Ministry of AYUSH at a city hotel Tuesday. Delivering the welcome speech, Prof Asis Mazumdar of Jadavpur University who is also the...

Bhubaneswar: Albeit Bhubaneswar has been synonymous with ‘The City of Temples’, still nobody can eschew the fact that multiple places of monumental beauty in the city still remain in history books only, untouched from the modern tourism. One such pulchritude is the Devi Padahara pond....

Bhubaneswar: July 31, is celebrated as Loyola Day to pay homage to St Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Society of Jesus, an influential and dynamic religious order. He was an organisational genius. He dedicated the last 16 years of his life in governing, finalising...