Report by Orissa Diary correspondent; Cuttack : The election of Utkal Sahitya Samaj ends peacefully on Sunday. Dr Ratnakar Chaini has been elected as the President of Utkal Sahitya Samaj. Similarly, Dr Govind Chandra Chand has been elected as the Secretary of Utkal Sahitya Samaj....

Bhubaneswar: International board member of World Women Organisation (WWO), well-known author and women activist Manasi Pradhan has been appointed as Advisory Panel member of Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC), popularly known as the Censor Board.

Mrs. Pradhan has...

Report by Orissa Diary correspondent; Puri: President of India Smt. Pratibha Devi singh Patil congratulated International sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik on his winning of 1st prize in people choice at 8th Berlin International sand sculpture championship. Including this time he got...

New Delhi: Chip giant Intel in association with Kendriya Vidyalaya Sagathan (KVS) and Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti (NVS), felicitated various schools, teachers and students who have demonstrated exceptional performance in ICT integration in school curriculum.

Kapil Sibal, U...

New Delhi: Students of KIIT University stood first at Group level and third all over India in 9th National Youth Parliament Competition 2007-2008 organized by Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs, Govt. of India. A team of seven students and Coordinator, Mr. B. K. Raju received the ...

Report by Orissa Diary bureau; Sambalpur:  At a contest held in New Delhi recently Sushree Shreya Mishra of Sambalpur  in the bagged the first position in the ‘I am She’ beauty pageant contest finalist  making her eligible to participant in the China beauty pageant...

Report by Orissa Diary correspondent; Cuttack: Ravenshaw University has invited eminent writer and former professor of English, Berhampur University, Soubhagya Kumar Mishra to become the writer-in-residence of the University for the academic year 2010-11.

The institution ...

Mumbai: On the 28th of July, Dr. Ramakanta Panda, a humble man from Orissa, now recognised as the worlds best cardiac surgeon, had flown to Delhi to inspect the  condition of Shri.Tarun Gogoi. Shri Gogoi was complaining of pain in the chest and discomfort. He advised cardiac...

Bhubaneswar: Sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik gets warm welcome after arrived in Bhubaneswar from Germany’s Berlin.

It should be noted that Sudarsan Pattnaik got the prestigious public prize at 8th International sand sculpture championship by creating a sand sculpture on...

Report by Orissa Diary bureau; Puri: Orissa based sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik got the prestigious public prize at 8th International sand sculpture championship by creating a sand sculpture on Global warming. This is 5th time sudarsan got public prize at Berlin and this is a rec...

Mumbai: Sarda Equal Opportunities Award (SEOA), given nationally every year, was recently announced with the award for the year 2009 going to Agragamme for their path breaking developmental work in the tribal districts of Orissa. Shri. Achyut Das, founder director of Agragamme wi...

By Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
http://orissamatters.com/2010/07/31/2773-prasanta-in-sidha-katha/

Eminent Journalist Prasanta Patnaik participating in ETv’s popular program, Sidha Katha (Str...

Cuttack: Reader in Geology, Ravenshaw University, Dr Shreerup Goswami has been recently awarded the Best Young Scientist of the Year 2008 Award instituted by the prestigious Odisha Bigyan Academy under the aegis of Government of Odisha. For the first time in the history of this e...

Bhubaneswar: Hanseo University, South Korea has conferred the Honorary Doctorate Degree on Dr. A. Samanta, Founder, KIIT & KISS. Hanseo University is world famous in the field of aviation training.

Dr. Samanta was conferred this honour for integrating quality educatio...

Balasore: Dr Aveek Pat Basu of Balasore district has been included as a White House Fellow recently Basu is one among 13 outstanding men and women and only Indian of diverse backgrounds and varied professions who were selected by US President Barack Obama for the year 2010-11 aft...