Orissa

/ ɒˈrɪsə /

noun

1. the former name (until 2011) of Odisha

Example Sentences

The incident comes after more than 250 people died in India's deadliest rail crash in more than two decades when three trains were involved in a collision in the eastern state of Orissa in June.

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There were "wild areas" in Orissa where investigators had to be accompanied by armed guards through forests; sometimes they had to cross snow-clad high Himalayan passes.

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A daily wage labourer from India's Orissa state turned to YouTube after work dried up during the Covid lockdown - now, he is a social media star.

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The high courts in Orissa and Karnataka have accepted the right to be forgotten as an essential part of the right to privacy.

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Many coastal villages in West Bengal state, neighbouring Orissa, were flooded by sea water.

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