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Gujarat Board's Class 10 results are out, with an 83.86% pass rate. Science saw 8,250 students score a perfect 100, while English had 10 students achieving 96. Mathematics revealed a stark contrast: only 91 students hit 100 in Standard Maths, but 3,529 excelled in Basic Maths, highlighting varied student strengths

Actress Pallavi Chatterjee highlights the significant rise of regional cinema, particularly South Indian films, which have achieved pan-India and global reach, surpassing Bollywood in many aspects. She also emphasized the importance of language comfort and thorough preparation for actors working in different linguistic projects, stressing that character and performance remain paramount.

The labour and employment department is firm on signboards in oriya language and script in front of shops.

Tuesday was a historic day in the lives of lakhs of oriyas living in Jharkhand.

The second edition of `Pramod Abhidhan`, an oriya to oriya dictionary with more than 1.55 lakh words, was released here on Saturday.

Just like their Punjabi, Bengali or Malayali counterparts, the oriya diaspora's concern for the state's progress is no less!

Persisting with their longstanding demand to resume oriya-medium schools in the state, represntatives of the oriya community have urged the state government to sincerely work in this direction.

Resident oriyas in Jharkhand are up in arms against its government for ignoring their demand to have a oriya post-graduate department in the proposed Kolhan University.

A leading socio-cultural organization here on Sunday urged city-based traders to write the first name on sign-boards on their shops and commercial establishments in oriya.

The three-day Biswa Odia Sammilanee (world oriya meet) had a colourful start on Friday...

BHUBANESWAR: The oriya ghost is again haunting Naveen Patnaik. If the ruling BJP and its allies are casting aspersions on Sonia Gandhi's eligibility to occupy high posts because of her foreign origin, then the Congress here has trained its guns on the chief minister, now 57, for his lack of command over the oriya language.

Mass exodus of over 40,000 oriya labourers employed in the Rs 30,000 crore man-made fabric industry in the city, has started as a fallout of the unrest in the sector over wage hike issue. Textile weavers and processors fear that most of the labourers may not return, creating a workforce shortage.

On Friday, Vijaykumar Sahu and his wife Mamata were up with the sun. For the couple, along with more than 100 other oriya daily wage labourers, had to travel from beyond Gummidipoondi to get a glimpse of Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik.

With a view to promoting oriya, Srujanika, a city-based non-profit organization popularizing science education and literature, on Sunday released an electronic compilation of oriya dictionaries dating back to 1710.

A large number of migrant workers have returned home from Surat. This follows shutdown in the power loom industry after labour unrest in the last fortnight and detention of oriya labourers by police.

Veteran filmmaker of oriya film industry Basant Nayak passed away on Monday after prolonged illness. The 74-year-old filmmaker was ailing for some time.

SURAT: The men pack themselves up — about 15 of them — in a kholi (room) just 10 feet by 15 feet in size. Life is tough for the oriya migrants in Surat, but they arrive in droves every day to earn an income which would be impossible back home.

Puri Sankaracharya Nischalananda Saraswati will inaugurate the three-day Biswa Odia Sammilanee (World oriya Meet) in city on January 21.

Thousands of oriya migrants in the Diamond City are desperate to go home in Odisha.

The state's higher education minister Badri Narayan Patra on Tuesday stressed that the medium of teaching for higher education should be oriya along with English for better understanding of the students.

Maha Bishuba Sankranti and the oriya New Year was celebrated across the state with much fanfare and gaiety on Thursday. People thronged to temples in large numbers to pray for a prosperous year ahead.

BHUBANESWAR: There was a time when many people in Orissa treated oriya music with sheer contempt.

oriyas residing in the diamond city will celebrate Boita Bandana Utsav under the aegis of Surat Odiya Welfare Association (SOWA) on Monday.

LUCKNOW: The Lucknow oriya Samaj along with the Sanskriti Vibhag celebrated the fifth 'oriya Diwas' on Monday.

People in Gujarat want change and Congress will provide an alternative to the present BJP government in the state, Union minister of state for fertilizer and chemicals Srikant Jena said at an oriya Samaj Mahasammelan here.

Gita Koda, wife of former chief minister of Jharkhand Madhu Koda, is keen to learn oriya. This will help Gita interact better with the people of her constituency, where over 80 per cent are oriyas.

Reports of alleged torture of oriya workers from Ganjam district, presently working in a construction company in south Sudan, came to light once again.

While Naveen Patnaik has been grappling with the language, a Russian woman has learnt oriya in 6 months.