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A tête-à-tête with filmmaker Nandita Das

She has acted in over 40 feature films in ten different languages and won accolades for numerous performances, including in ‘Fire’ (1996), ‘Earth’ (1998) and ‘Bawandar’ (2000) among several others. Her directorial debut ‘Firaaq’ (2008) premiered at the Toronto Film Festival and travelled to more...

The curious case of Jajpur’s Solapua Maa

Located on the peak of Udayagiri hill in Assia hill range, ‘Solapua Maa’ has never been shown any interest neither by the ASI nor by the state Archeology department If we look carefully at the images and sculptures, we can recognise that actually these deities belong to the...

NHM director faces protest from DHH ad hoc staff

Puri: National Health Mission, Odisha, director Shalini Pandit faced protest from over a hundred ad hoc employees of the district headquarters hospital (DHH) here when she visited the hospital Wednesday afternoon. Seeking solution to their various issues, the ad hoc employees locked the chief district...

58% schools run sans electricity, admits Odisha govt

Bhubaneswar: The School and Mass Education department Wednesday admitted before the Assembly that more than half of the total upper primary schools in the state are running without electricity. The self admission of the state government came to the fore through the statistics the state...

‘Sikhaa’ bags Best Film Award

BHUBANESWAR: UNICEF Odisha in collaboration with Aaina, an Odisha-based voluntary organisation, organised the fifth season of Kallola Awards 2019 at a hotel here Wednesday.   The event is the awards ceremony of a short film contest on child rights and nutrition. The ceremony was attended...

Cyclothon urges conservation of mangrove forests

PURI: Odisha Paryavaran Sanrakshan Abhiyan in association with Dakshin Foundation and Aranyani Forest Officer s Wives Association organised its fourth state-level cyclothon to raise awareness about protection of mangrove forests here Wednesday. Puri Wildlife Division DFO H B Udgata, Biju Patnaik Wildlife Conservation awardee Bichitranand...

Fighting the menace of child abuse

‘Take action and prevent child abuse’ is the theme for 2019-edition of World Day for Prevention of Child Abuse In 2017, the WHO estimated that up to 1 billion minors, between the ages of 2 and 17, have endured violence either physical or emotional and even sexual According to...

View-counterview: Dust did not settle

The amended Motor Vehicles Act will be back in force from December 1. The state government had relaxed the new traffic rules for three months after public outrage over the penalties. But there has been criticism over the government’s move to temper the rules. On...

Magician defies logic in Capital

BHUBANESWAR: Infosys in collaboration with Bharatiya Vidya Bhawan organised a magic show on the 83rd evening of ‘Dying Arts of Odisha’ here Monday. Magician Rampratap Agarwal from the Chhattisgarh strutted his stuff at the event. He said, “India was once famous for Indrajal magic by...

 

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