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Kathmandu: A 52-year-old Nepali Kami Rita Sherpa has climbed Mount Everest for the 26th time, bettering his own record for most number of times to scale the world's highest peak, expedition planners said Sunday. Kami Rita Sherpa and his group of 11 Sherpa guides summitted...

London: Staying away  from social media sites, including Twitter, Facebook or Instagram, for at least a week may lead to significant improvements in wellbeing, depression and anxiety, finds a new study. The study, published in the journal 'Cyberpsychology, Behaviour and Social Networking', suggest that just...

New Delhi: About 25 per cent of women aged 18-29 and 15 per cent of men aged 21-29 got married before reaching the minimum legal age of marriage. This information has been provided by the latest National Family Health Survey (NFHS) conducted from 2019 to...

New Delhi: We have always heard "Eat Breakfast like a King" but in today's rushed world everyone's meal timings are scattered, sleep is erratic and they want to look a certain way, cutting calories is affecting their breakfast intake every day! Breakfast is an important...

Not too many Odia plays, in recent times, have drawn the viewers to auditoriums like Ahe Nilashaila did last week. Adapted from Nilashaila and Niladri Bijaya – two famous novels of eminent author late Surendra Mohanty, the play was staged for four days to a...

It might sound clichéd, but Odisha’s unique identity across the globe is mostly attributed to Lord Jagannath and his world famous Rath Yatra. So, there is little surprise that most of the festivals celebrated here are some way connected to the rituals and customs of...

Folk theatre in Odisha has a rich legacy. While each region has its own distinct form, many are on the brink of disappearance with the audience turning to other modes of entertainment. Chadheya Nata, which would help propagate social, political and cultural issues in the...

New Delhi: From disappointment to relief, Indian athletes showed a range of emotions after finding about the indefinite postponement of the 2022 Asian Games owing to a spike in Covid-19 cases in China.   In a year of Commonwealth and Asian Games, the athletes need to...

From sharing screen space with top star Ajay Devgn to winning the state film award as Best Actor, the torch-bearer of new-age Odia cinema Partha Sarathi Ray has come a long way. Known for his unconventional choices of movies, Partha is placed among those who...

The style and manner of celebrating Indian festivals have changed drastically over the years, thanks to rapid modernisation in the country. Moving away from the tradition, the celebrations have become more an opportunity for the affluents to flaunt their riches. Be it Holi, Diwali, Dussehra,...