Manipur:26/10/18: Odia poet Jayadratha Suna received the Yuva Puraskar for 2018 on Friday. The event was organised by Kendra Sahitya Akademi at the Tribal Research Institute Conference Hall in Imphal, Manipur. Jayadratha is a native of Kalahandi. He received this award for his debut poetry collection Sosha (The Thirst), which was published in 2017. The award comprises a casket containing an ...

Bhubaneswar: 26/10/18: Poet Satrughna Pandav on Friday was bestowed with the prestigious Sarala Puraskar instituted by IMFA’s charitable wing IMPaCT. Pandav was felicitated with a cash award of Rs 5 lakh and a citation at a special function held in Bhubaneswar today. He received the Sarala Puraskar for his poetry collection ‘Misra Dhrupad.’ “It is a great feeling to be ...

Bhubaneswar:26/10/18: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Friday launched a new web portal of Odia Virtual Academy (www.ova.gov.in) to promote the Odia language and literature. Launching the web portal, the CM said, “I was delighted to dedicate the Virtual Academy that will promote our language, literature and culture across the world. Our Odia is one of the finest classical languages of ...

Newdelhi:25/10/18:The Tagore Award for Cultural Harmony for the years 2014, 2015 & 2016 is being conferred   on the doyen of Manipuri dance Sh. Rajkumar Singhajit Singh; Chhayanaut (a cultural organization of Bangladesh) and on one of India’s greatest sculptors, Sh. Ram Vanji Sutar, respectively.The Jury under the Chairmanship of Prime Minister, Sh Narendra Modi and comprising of the Chief Justice ...

Bhubaneswar:7/10/18:Known for her fight against caste and religious discrimination, Pratibha Ray, who won prestigious Jnanpith Award in 2011, being  assumed as  the New Chairperson of Bharatiya Jnanpith Selection Board.Pratibha Ray  was the first Odia woman and fourth Odia writer to get the Jnanpith Award,Earlier Gopinath Mohanty (1973), Sachidananda Routray (1986) and Sitakant Mohapatra (1993) were conferred the honour.Pratibha Ray was born to a Gandhian teacher ...

Nainital:5/10/18:The third edition of Himalayan Echoes took off with the outreach session for the Tibetan community residing in Nainital. India’s fascination with Tibetan diaspora since 1959 goes a long way in shaping the socio-cultural, economic and political dimension of the land and its people. At Himalayan Echoes today, Dr.Sangay was in conversation with Patrich French (world renowned British writer, historian and ...

Newdelhi:4/10/18:The parliamentary debate should focus on issues and not on individuals as it would help in understanding an alternative viewpoint, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said Wednesday. While some Parliamentarians contribute to serious discussions, there are few who have become ‘Zero Hour’ activists to get mileage in media and some others have turned to 11 o’clock activists who are judged on ...

Pondichery:4/10/18:Smt. Pratignya Devi, wife of eminent  writer  Manoj Das left for her heavenly abode on3rd,.October night at 8.50pm.Daughter of eminent freedom fighters Shri Narayana Birabara Samanta and Smt. Ratnamali Jema, she had did her MA in Psychology in Ravenshaw College. But she along with Shri Manoj Das became disciples of SriMaa and inmates of Sri Aurobindo Ashram in 1962. She ...

BHUBANESWAR:30/9/18: Poet-politician and BJP MP Varun Gandhi on Saturday lashed out at the prevailing education system in the country and termed the Right To Education (RTE) a complete failure. The country has spent Rs 3.7 lakh crore in RTE but 89 per cent of it has been spent on constructing buildings, where everything happens except education, he said in the ...

New Delhi. 28.09.18: Current research chillingly states that one in four people in the world are affected by mental health disorders. WHO reports that50% of mental health disordersmanifest before 14 years of age and puts 30% of young Indians as having been diagnosed with mental illness; reality far exceeds that number.Indiahas been affected by an alarming increase in depression and ...