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Utkala Deepika
Odia printed newspaper From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Utkala Deepika was the first Odia printed newspaper.[1] The weekly paper was started on 4 August 1866 by Gourishankar Ray and Babu Bichitrananda Das. Therefore, 4 August is celebrated as Odia Journalism Day.[2]
This weekly was instrumental in campaigning of bringing all Odia speaking tracts under a single province in India to develop the Odia language.[1]
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