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Injecting Success, One Cow At A Time
Angul, OdishaAnil Kumar Pradhan travelled a long and rocky road to success which culminated in him winning the National Gopal Ratna Award on the National Milk Day, on November 26 this year.The...
Niroj Ranjan Misra 9 Dec 2023 7:06 AM GMT
Aroma of Success: A Bookshop Owner Now Runs a Successful Aromatic Oils Startup
Bhindhanima (Cuttack), OdishaPradeep Kumar Sahoo, a farmer from Bhindhanima village, is a famous name in the business of aromatic oils. The 39-year-old villager has set up a company — Utkal Aromatics...
Niroj Ranjan Misra 21 Nov 2023 2:15 PM GMT
Beyond Pattachitra and Talapatra Chitra, Here’s a Lesser Known Leaf Craft of Odisha
Odisha’s ancient and sacred art of palm leaf painting (engravings), commonly known as talapatra chitra, is world famous.Unlike pattachitra in which a painting is made on a ‘treated’ piece of cotton...
Niroj Ranjan Misra 6 Nov 2023 8:29 AM GMT
आपके नाश्ते की प्लेट में जल्द नज़र आएँगे जँगली रतालू से बने कुकीज़ स्नैक्स
रतालू के क्रिस्पी चिप्स, कटलेट और मिठाई, जी हाँ सुन कर यकीन नहीं हुआ न लेकिन ये जल्द सच होने वाला है। ओडिशा में स्थानीय रूप से बाना अलू के नाम से जाना जाने वाला रतालू इन दिनों माइक्रोस्कोप परीक्षण...
Niroj Ranjan Misra 28 Oct 2023 9:28 AM GMT
‘Rain Potatoes’ Shower Profits on Tribal Farmers in Koraput
The harvest is still on and Dinabandhu Khara has already gathered 360 quintals of potatoes from two hectares of land in Suku village (1 quintal = 100 kilogrammes). These are rain potatoes, he...
Niroj Ranjan Misra 27 Oct 2023 11:53 AM GMT
You May Soon Bite into Snacks and Cookies Made Out of Wild Yams
Cuttack, OdishaWild yams or bana alu as they are locally known in Odisha, are under the microscope, and a team of researchers at the Central University of Odisha in Sunabeda town of Koraput district...
Niroj Ranjan Misra 18 Oct 2023 1:02 PM GMT
From practising javelin throws using bamboo sticks to winning silver at Asian Games, Odisha's Kishore Kumar Jena has come a long way
Cuttack (Odisha)As he watched Kishore Kumar Jena mount the podium in Hangzhou China on October 5, 2023, to claim his silver medal, Laxman Baral, (an Odisha state champion in Javelin in 1996), couldn’t...
Niroj Ranjan Misra 6 Oct 2023 4:17 PM GMT
100 से अधिक गर्भवती महिलाओं और उनके नवजात शिशुओं की जान बचाने वाली की कहानी
दया नदी के तेज़ उफान ने सड़क के ठीक बीच में 100 फीट गहरी खाई बना दी थी, जिससे ओडिशा में पुरी जिले के कनासा ब्लॉक में कई गाँवों का सामुदायिक स्वास्थ्य केंद्र से संपर्क टूट गया था। वह 26 अगस्त, 2022 का...
Niroj Ranjan Misra 14 Sep 2023 10:33 AM GMT
Odisha: A dedicated rural nurse from Puri has saved the lives of several pregnant women and their newborns
The Daya river had, in a furious spate, gouged out a 100 feet deep ghai (a gaping gap) right in the middle of the road, thus cutting off several villages from their community health centre in Kanasa...
Niroj Ranjan Misra 13 Sep 2023 6:36 AM GMT
An LIC employee in Odisha and a prolific writer keeps a tribal language alive
Biswanath Tudu, an employee of Life Insurance Company of India (LIC) at Rourkela in Odisha, is also a prolific writer. He has 104 works to his name that include novels, travelogues, poems, children’s...
Niroj Ranjan Misra 12 Sep 2023 7:15 AM GMT
Move over motichoor and boondi laddu, here comes the power packed mahua laddu
The delicious aroma of roasting almonds, cashew nuts, sesame seeds, coconut, and groundnuts intermingle with the smell of molten jaggery as Santilata Kanhar mixes them together. To this nutritious...
Niroj Ranjan Misra 17 July 2023 8:56 AM GMT
थाई बॉक्सिंग में देश का नाम करना चाहती है गोंड जनजाति की ये लड़की
ओडिशा के क्योंझर में गोंड समुदाय की अर्ज्या कुमारी इन दिनों मार्शल आर्ट में मशहूर हो रही हैं। आदिवासी समुदाय की अर्ज्या ने न केवल राज्य-स्तरीय खेल प्रतियोगिताओं में पदक जीते हैं, बल्कि राष्ट्रीय...
Niroj Ranjan Misra 10 July 2023 8:31 AM GMT