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9 unusual facts about Bhubaneswar


1950 Assam – Tibet earthquake

In an attempt to further uncover the seismic history of Northeast India, field studies were conducted by scientists with the National Geophysical Research Institute and Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar.

Bidyut Marg

Bidyut Marg is a major north-south thoroughfare in Bhubaneswar, Odisha.

Biranchinarayan Temple, Palia

The sculptures and carvings of the two door jambs bear a close resemblance to the Siva temples of Bhubaneswar and Khiching of the 10th or 11th century A.D.

Cora DuBois

She conducted research between 1961 and 1967 on the temple city of Bhubaneswar in the Indian state of Orissa, where a number of graduate students in Anthropology and Social Relations conducted fieldwork.

Heinrich Tessenow

This particular strain of humane, functionalist urban planning would eventually lead to the extensive German housing projects of Ernst May and Bruno Taut in the 1920s, May's plans for Magnitogorsk and other Russian cities, and then widespread influence through Tessenow's student Otto Koeningsberger, an urban planner who worked in Asia, Latin America, Africa and particularly India, for instance the 1948 plan for the Indian city of Bhubaneswar.

Kritansh

Kritansh is the techno-management festival of KIIT University, Bhubaneswar held during the month of February.

Mindfire Solutions

It employs more than 700+ workers in its two engineering centres in Delhi and Bhubaneswar and caters to more than 100 clients in the US and Europe.In 2012, Mindfire Solutions opened a new development center in Bangalore.

Rajpath, Bhubaneswar

Rajpath is a major east-west thoroughfare in Bhubaneswar, Odisha.

Richard Shweder

Shweder's main fieldwork outside the United States has been in the temple town of Bhubaneswar in the state of Orissa, India.


Arindam Roy

He is an Economics graduate from the Christ College, Cuttack and has a degree from the Utkal University, Bhubaneswar.

Boita

The earliest depiction of ships in Odisha is in a sculptured frieze showing two ships, found near the Brahmeswar temple, Bhubaneswar, and now preserved in the Odisha State Museum.

Cyclone Lehar

The director of the Bhubaneswar Meteorological Centre asked the ports of Paradip and Gopalpur to hoist danger signals in preparation for the storm.

Deba Ray College, Bhubaneswar

The courses in the higher secondary level are affiliated to the Council of Higher Secondary Education, Odisha and courses offered in the under-graduate levels are affiliated to Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.

Hypaethros

Ranipur-Jharial, Odisha, India houses one among the five existing rare monuments of Hypaethral temples dedicated to 64 yoginis in India (the other four are Chausath Jogini Temple at Hirapur near Bhubaneswar, Khajuraho and Bheraghat near Jabalpur) and Dudhai near Lalitpur.

Institute for Plasma Research

The scientists of the Centre are working in close collaboration with national and international institutes like Institute for Plasma Research, Gandhinagar, Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Bombay, Regional Research Laboratory, Bhubaneswar, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Calcutta, Kyushu University, Japan, University of Bayreuth, Germany, Culham Laboratory, UK, and Flinders University, Australia, to name a few.

Janpath, Bhubaneswar

Janpath is a major north-south thoroughfare in Bhubaneswar, Odisha.

Kamalakanta Jena

Sri Jena was an MSc student in the P. G. Department of Physics, Utkal University campus, Vani Vihar, Bhubaneswar during the session 1991–1993.

Khordha district

Maa Ugra Tara : This temple is located in between Rameswar chowk & chandpur (Tangi block) in NH-5 & 55 km from Bhubaneswar towards Balugaon & 35 km from Balugaon towards BBSR.

Software Technology Parks of India

STPI has a presence in many of the major cities of India including the cities of Bangalore, Mysore, Trivandrum, Bhilai, Bhubaneswar, Chennai, Coimbatore, Hyderabad, Gurgaon, Pune, Guwahati, Noida, Mumbai,Nagpur, Kolkata, Kanpur, Lucknow, Dehradun, Patna, Rourkela, Ranchi, Gandhinagar, Imphal, Shillong, Nashik etc.

Sonepuri Sari

Padmashri Kailash Chandra Meher, of Western Odisha was working as an Art Designer in Weaver Service Centre Bhubaneswar, under Development Commissioner Handloom, New Delhi, Ministry of Textiles, Govt.


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