Bhubaneswar: India’s First Aluminum Freight Rake was flagged off by Railway minister Ashwini Vaishnaw at Bhubaneswar Railway Station on Sunday. A single rake of Aluminum Freight Train can save over 15,000 tonnes of CO2 over its lifetime. It is an ambitious plan to modernise freight transportation and enable large carbon savings for Indian Railways. Stating…
Bhubaneswar: The annual terracotta exhibition ‘Mruttika’ commences at the Ekamra Haat in Bhubaneswar today. The exhibition will continue from 15 October to 22 October where artisans, SHGs, Co-operative societies are displaying and selling their products. Over 125 stalls have been made and around 250 artisans are participating in the exhibition from 26 districts such as…
Bhubaneswar: To attract tourists, the Odisha government is planning to install the longest ropeway in Chilika lake under the ‘Parvatmala’ scheme of the central government. As per the plan prepared by the Works Department, there will be two ropeways over Chilika. The longest one would be 5.3 km from Prayagi Krushnaprasad Road (Nandala – Krushnaprasad)…
Bhubaneswar: With only a few days left, the India national football squad for the FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup India 2022 has been announced on Wednesday. Thomas Dennerby, head coach of team India announced the 21-member Indian squad. 🚨 ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨 Here’s the list of 2⃣1️⃣ Young Tigresses 🐯, who will be fighting for 🇮🇳…
Bhubaneswar: Offline ticket sales for the FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup India 2022 are underway in Bhubaneswar, Goa and Navi Mumbai. 16 countries will take part in the World Cup scheduled from October 11 till October 30 and will be played in the three venue. Football fans in Bhubaneswar can purchase offline tickets from the…
Bhubaneswar: Eleven cities from Odisha have bagged national awards in the Swachh Survekshan- 2022 and Indian Swachhata League. Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation, Berhampur Municipal Corporation, Puri Municipality, Paradeep Municipality, Bargarh Municipality, Basudevpur Municipality, Bellaguntha NAC, Bijepur NAC, Binika NAC, Chikiti NAC, Junagarh NAC are the 11 ULBs of Odisha that bagged the Swachh Survekshan 2022 award…
Ahmedabad: Odisha Women’s Rugby team clinched the first gold medal on Friday at the 36th National Games. The girls dominated the match from the beginning and defeated Maharashtra with a huge margin of 22-0. They were unbeaten in six games to become the national champions.
New Delhi: Veteran actor Asha Parekh will be conferred with the prestigious Dada Saheb Phalke award for 2020. Parekh’s name was announced on Tuesday for the highest recognition in the field of Indian cinema by the Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting Anurag Thakur. The award will be presented during the 68th National Film Awards…
Bhubaneswar: Five edited volumes of the ‘Encyclopaedia of Tribes in Odisha’ published by Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Research and Training Institute and Odisha State Tribal Museum have been released. The edited volumes contain 418 research articles covering all the 62 Scheduled Tribe Communities and 13 Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups. All the articles were earlier…
Bargarh: To ensure the conservation of winged guests and provide them a safe environment, the residents of Govindpur under Lakhanpur Wildlife Range in Ambabhona block of Bargarh district in Odisha have declared their village as ‘Birds Village’. Tamdei and Ramkhol are the two other villages in the region that have pledged to join the initiative….
