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There has been an age long demand from various organizations as well as from civil society for change of the Name from Orissa to Odisha and Oriya to Odia; Odisha Cabinet for the 1st time resolved a proposal in this regard in June 2008. The move was passed in the Odisha Assembly on 28 August 2008.
On 22 January 1999, Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two sons were murdered. Staines was an Australian Christian missionary who, along with his two sons Philip (aged 10) and Timothy (aged 6), was burnt to death by a gang while sleeping in his station wagon at Manoharpur village in Keonjhar district in Odisha, India on 23 January 1999.
Odisha became a separate province and the first officially recognized language-based state of India in 1936, after the amalgamation of the Odia regions from Bihar and Orissa Province, Madras Presidency and Chhattisgarh Division was successfully executed. 26 Odia princely states, including Sadheikala-Kharasuan in today's Jharkhand, also signed a ...
The state of Odisha has hosted several international sporting events, including the 2018 Men's Hockey World Cup, 2022 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup and 2023 Men's Hockey World Cup. Sports stadiums in Odisha include: Kalinga Stadium; Barabati Stadium; Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor Stadium; East Coast Railway Stadium; Biju Patnaik Hockey Stadium; KIIT ...
One of the great writers in the 20th century was Pandit Krushna Chandra Kar (1907–1995) from Cuttack, who wrote many books for children like Pari Raija, Kuhuka Raija, Panchatantra, Adi Jugara Galpa Mala, etc. He was last felicitated by the Sahitya Academy in 1971–72 for his contributions to Odia literature, development of children's fiction ...
The move toward parity between the two races makes perfect sense, as the Women’s Tour was typically at the vanguard of equality between the men’s and women’s pelotons. The race was once one ...
There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby: Scary Fairytales is a collection of short stories written by Russian author and playwright Ludmilla Petrushevskaya. These stories were selected and translated from the Russian language into English by Keith Gessen and Anna Summers.
1.7 Women's writing and feminism. 1.8 Children's literature. 1.9 Drama and plays. 1.10 Short stories. ... Bira Kishore Ray; First Chief Justice of Orissa High Court;