Sanjay Nayak

Mahurat of Odia film, Mana Mo Nei Galu Re, was held in the city recently. The film’s cast and crew were present at the auspicious event.

'Baisi Pahache Kheliba Mina', the apocalyptic Oriya film released on June 14, has had an impact very few celluloid productions in the world must have - a resident of Bhubaneswar attempted suicide after watching it!

An increasing in production that has resulted in the prices coming down as provided an opportunity to the consumers to gorge on the king of fruits in South Gujarat.

Five persons have been arrested for allegedly smuggling ganja into Bengaluru city from other states on trains. A gang of three was held for bringing almost 3kg of the drug from Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. In another case, two persons were nabbed for smuggling 2kg ganja from Odisha.

The Mapusa police have registered an FIR against Lawrence Dias and his wife for allegedly trespassing into a flat belonging to a builder, Sanjay Nayak.

The state unit of Samajwadi Party, led by its president Rabi Behera, on Saturday staged a demonstration in front of the office of the Odisha Electricity Regulatory Commission (OERC) against the proposed power tariff hike for 2022-23.

The crime branch has nabbed a man who was wanted under the Prohibition Act for the last seven months. Cops had seized a vehicle full of liquor from Nizampura area in July last year. A complaint was registered at Fatehgunj police station.

India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has formed a nine-member task force headed by Bhuvnesh Kumar, additional secretary of MeitY, to advise on making the country a “product developer and manufacturing nation”. The experts on the panel will examine deepening domestic value addition on electronics manufacturing, and expanding the story of local production beyond the Rs 36,000 crore ($4.9bn) production-linked incentive scheme, according to insiders. The government has already approved a similar scheme for air conditioning and LED lighting products, worth Rs 6,238 crore, with incentives over five years to encourage white goods manufacturing.

Special public prosecutor Mohan Kumar said, “Apart from sentencing Nayak to 10 years, the court also imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 on him. He would undergo additional term of six months for non-payment of fine.”

Two days after stray dogs mauled a four-year-old child to death in Puri, a four-year-old girl of Banarpal block in Angul district was severely injured after being attacked by a dog on Saturday.

Mango season is peaking in the region of South Gujarat when it is almost over for other parts of the country. With huge quantities of fruit coming in almost all the local markets of the region, the unaffordable king of fruit at the beginning of the season has become affordable for all.

For those living in Surat or any other part of South Gujarat, mid-May is the time when they relish mangoes to get some relief from the heat.

Mahurat of Odia film Premare Rakhichhi 100 ru 100 was held at Balunkeswar Shiva Temple in Nayapalli today.

After spending 40 days in jail, comedian Papu Pom Pom on Wednesday returned home raising questions about his future in Ollywood.While some said that public memory is short-lived and Papu would come back with a bang.

Want to renew your registration and continue practice? Then clock in 20 credit points a year.This is the dictat that Karnataka State Dental Council has laid down to its members.

Many fruit traders have resorted to artificial ripening of mangoes, watermelons and muskmelons to meet the ever rising demand for them by the consumers in the summer season.

The audio release of the Odia thriller, “Mita Basichi Mu Bhuta Sathire”, saw a galaxy of stars come under one roof. Incidentally, this movie happens to be the first-ever 3D movie in Odia.

Mahurat of an upcoming Odia film that deals with the plights of common people during Covid-19 pandemic, was held in the city yesterday.

Popular Odia film actress Archita Sahu was crowned first runners up in the Femina Miss India Kolkata 2013 beauty pageant.

Several police personnel were injured on Sunday in an attack by alleged Trinamool Congress supporters, who demanded the immediate release of four party workers, at Sunderban Coastal police station in South 24 Parganas district, officials said.

The India Semiconductor Association is now the India Electronics and Semiconductor Association (IESA), an effort to broadbase the organization to include also the electronic system design and manufacturing (ESDM) ecosystem.

A day after a herd of stray dogs mauled a four-year-old child to death in Puri, a four-year-old girl of Banarpal block in Angul district on Saturday was severely injured in dog attack.

TOI reads in between the lines of Ollywood’s movie posters to find out why more and more films are using English titles written in Odia scripts