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This weekly series on the singers of the 90s will be incomplete without a mention of the name that ruled the roost for the first half of the decade. This week Odisha Bytes pays a tribute to one more legend of Bollywood music, who surpassed…

Shefali Udgata, a professional anchor and emcee who hails from Balangir, added one more feather to Odisha’s cap of victories by becoming second runners-up In Miss British Empire contest held in Sri Lanka recently. Miss British Empire is an…

The Maharashtra and Haryana elections might have given a boost to the Opposition, but they need to struggle a lot to defeat the RSS-BJP game plan.

Bhubaneswar: Bilingual actress Sreela Tripathy is busy shuttling between Bhubaneswar and Kolkata these days, shooting simultaneously for both Odia and Bengali movies. Sreela will be seen in the Odia movie, ‘From Me To U’, which will be…

With an honorary doctorate conferred on him this year by Ravenshaw University, his alma mater, he is now Dr Anant Mahapatra. In India, awards probably indicate a swansong but in Dr Mahapatra, we find a live wire, charging up every moment…

Bhubaneswar: In a proud moment for Odisha, weightlifter Jhili Dalabehera bagged a bronze medal at the Asian Weightlifting Championships in South Korea on Tuesday. The Odisha-born weightlifter bagged the medal in the women’s 45 Kg category.…

Ever since Jio upturned the telecom market two years back, unlimited calls and 1-2 GB data per day has become the norm. But what about postpaid schemes? While traditionally postpaid plans used to be cost-effective than prepaid, things have…

Bhubaneswar: India's fastest woman Dutee Chand has won the Vogue award for Sportsperson of the Year 2019. "Apart from record-breaking firsts on the track, Dutee Chand is also India’s first openly lesbian athlete. The professional sprinter…

As promised in the previous episode of this series, this article will continue its ode to Anuradha Paudwal who relinquished her crown at the peak of her career in the 1990s. We will trace her musical journey beyond her first tryst with fame…

I was not in favour of an enhanced salary and pension proposal for legislators and ministers at a time when the state's economy was passing through severe crisis. Out of 365 days in a year, for 364 days, the state had to depend on "ways…