Tribute

Mumbai: Versatile Marathi writer, director and playwright Ratnakar Matkari, 81, died late on Sunday midnight after testing positive of COVID-19. He was hospitalised for a routine check-up in Mumbai's Memorial...

Bhubaneswar: Founder secretary of Odisha’s leading adventure club Association of Adventure and Social Organisation (AASA), Saroj Muduli, passed away on Sunday morning at the AIIMS, where he was being treated...

Rishi Kapoor endeared himself to people of all age groups. As a young hero, he was the heartthrob of many a girl, many identified with him as a middle-aged actor...

Dhenkanal: It's 101 years to the day that General Reginald Dyer ordered his soldiers to fire on an unarmed crowd at an enclosed place called Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar. To...

The picture of Odisha’s only Ashok Chakra recipient, Assistant Commandant Pramod Kumar Satpathy, of the Special Operations Group (SOG) is missing from https://gallantryawards.gov.in/awardees/ashok , the government’s official site of all...

Dubai: For the first time ever, the great revolutionary and freedom fighter Veer Surendra Sai’s Birth Anniversary was celebrated outside India. An expatriate group GOOD (Global Odias for Odisha’s Development)...

A dramatic story teller without frills, only Akshaya Mohanty, the maverick can open his story with these lines, “ଯିଏ ଭୁଲିଯାଏ ସେ ସେମିକା, ଯିଏ ଭୁସଲନା ସେ ସେମିକାର ୋନ ଭଉଣୀ”. His openness...

Till the late 1990s, they were regularly seen at the market in Choudwar. The locals took them to be Gurkhas of the Odisha Special Armed Police, often deployed at the...

Meandering river Blue waves slithering, Lissome maiden, Nimble-footed on the stone Lighting every creek, With her coy outpour On life’s gondola Through the curvy path Meandering river Every nymphet has...

When was the last when you met a freedom fighter, a business tycoon, an innovator, a dashing pilot, a science aficionado, a true philanthropist, a visionary and a politician who...