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Bhubaneswar: Odissi Dance Utsav, a three-day, national-level Odissi dance competition organised by Nrutya Naivedya at Bhanja Kala Mandap, concluded Sunday. The first half of the day was devoted to competitions at which 30 dancers from the sub-junior, junior and senior categories participated. The second half...

Bhubaneswar: ‘Sanju’, the biopic on Bollywood’s bad boy Sanjay Dutt, is an eagerly awaited release slated for this year. Ranbir Kapoor plays Dutt in the biopic and his re-enactment of the scene from Munna Bhai in which Sanjay asks the dean, “Wo bahar casualty mein...

Bhubaneswar: Rotary International District 3262 organised an all-women motor rally aimed at creating awareness about organ donation, in the city Sunday. Two-hundred women motorists participated in the rally that included two-wheelers and four-wheelers. It was flagged off from Janata Maidan at 8.30 am and culminated...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Police has bagged Gold Medal for its dynamic web portal at 52nd SKOCH Summit, 2018 held in New Delhi Saturday. The web portal, (www.odishapolice.gov.in) of Odisha Police was designed and developed by Suyog Computech on complementary basis under the technical support of NIC...

Bhubaneswar: In a major reshuffle, 150 police officers in the rank of sub-inspectors (SIs) and assistant sub-inspectors (ASIs) stationed at different police stations and outposts in the twin cities have been transferred by the Commissionerate Police here Sunday. Three SIs each from Capital and Infocity...

Bhubaneswar: Krishna Beura, a singer from Odisha who ruled in the hearts of music lovers across India with his song Maula Mere (Chak De India), has now lent his voice for the Hollywood music video Isn’t Love Enough. He posted the video on social media...

Birendra Mohanty of Odisha was recently selected for the prestigious Kendriya Sahitya Akademi Award for children’s literature for his poetry 'Rumku Jhuma'. The 56-year-old soft spoken litterateur from Nilachakra Nagar in Puri talked about the crisis faced by children’s literature in the state as well...

Children who experience recurrent destructive conflicts between their parents are at a higher risk of developing mental health problems later. However, if they share a strong bond with their sibling it may protect them against the negative effects of parental strife, a new study has...

Bhubaneswar: A city-based activist Friday lodged a complaint with Odisha Human Rights Commission (OHRC) seeking a probe into disappearance of two children in Chirgalatla slum under Infocity police station June 16. The missing children have been identified as Raja Soren,10, son of Muna Soren, and...

Bhubaneswar: India’s national academy of letters, the Sahitya Akademi, Friday announced the names of 23 winners of its Bal Sahitya Puraskar and 21 recipients of the Yuva Puraskar for the year of 2018. Two Odia writers – Birendra Mohanty and Jayadratha Suna – have found...