Bhubaneshwar News | Indo-Asian News Service | Thursday March 24, 2011
The Rajya Sabha Thursday passed a bill to change the name of Orissa to 'Odisha' and an amendment in the constitution to rename Oriya language as 'Odiya'."The name of the state specified as Orissa in the First Schedule of the Constitution be changed as Odisha," Home Minister P. Chidambaram said while introducing the bill in the Rajya Sabha. The Oris...
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