Archive for the ‘Oriya News’ category
Switch off lights for Earth Hour on Saturday
Bhubaneswar, the capital city will plunge into darkness for an hour on March 23 for good. Different government offices will switch off lights in the evening to observe Earth Hour-2013. Earth Hour is a worldwide event organized by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) annually, encouraging households and businesses to turn off their non-essential [...]
Smart card for DTS city buses
After a successful dry run, the city bus operator, Dream Team Sahara (DTS), is all set to introduce a ‘smart card’ system for commuters from April 1. “We conducted a compatibility test for few weeks and found it to be doing well,” said chairman of DTS Nishikant Mishra. The system will also put an end [...]
Lipika Singh Darai got National Film Award
The 60th National Film Awards for the best debut film of a director has been conferred to Odisha-based film director Lipika Singh Darai for Odia film ‘Eka Gachha Eka Manisa Eka Samudra’. 60th National Film Awards for the year 2012 was announced at a joint Press Conference addressed by the Chairpersons of the three juries, [...]
Manoranjan Kar new OUAT Vice-Chancellor
Putting an end to a prolonged uncertainty, outgoing governor M C Bhandare on his last day in office on Sunday appointed Manoranjan Kar as the new vice-chancellor of Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology (OUAT). Kar, 57, met the governor and submitted his joining letter. He assumes responsibility of the coveted post, which had fallen [...]
Aam Aadmi Party Odisha unit launched
The Arvind Kejriwal led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) launched its Odisha unit at Bhubaneswar on Saturday. At a colourful function, the AAP was launched in Lower PMG, the party members celebrated the launch of ninth State unit of AAP holding National Flag and photographs of party’s founder Arvind Kejriwal. Addressing a public meeting marking AAP [...]
Nabakalebar of Lord Jagannath in 2015
Odisha Government will spend Rs 1,000 crore on development of infrastructure and passenger amenities for the Nabakalebar of Lord Jagannath in 2015 at Puri. A plan will be worked out for provision of drinking water, sanitation and release of drain keeping in view the requirement for 40-50 lakh people during the occasion. The recent stampede [...]
Ration card digitisation by 2014
Pratap Keshari Deb, minister of State for Food Supplies and Consumer Welfare said – the digitisation of ration cards across Odisha will be completed by the end of the financial year 2013-14. With the success of the ration card digitisation in Balangir block, the project would soon be taken up in the other districts as [...]
Mistakes in CBSE Odia question paper
The CBSE Class X second language Odia question paper, examination for which was held on Monday, has at least 30 spelling and grammatical mistakes. This makes an average of 2.5 mistakes per question in the paper that had 12 questions. None of the 12 questions is error-free. Even names of eminent Odia personalities have been [...]
