{"id":6928,"date":"2023-04-01T03:35:35","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T22:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=6928"},"modified":"2025-03-28T15:54:49","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T10:24:49","slug":"utkal-divas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/utkal-divas\/","title":{"rendered":"Utkal Divas"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Utkal Dibas:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The modern state of Odisha was established on <strong>1 April 1936 at Kanika Palace<\/strong>, Cuttack, as a province in India, and consists predominantly of Odia speakers.1 April is therefore celebrated as Utkal Divas (Odisha Day).\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What is the History of Odisha?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The British had occupied the Northern Circars, comprising the southern coast of Odisha, as a result of the <strong>Second Carnatic War by 1760<\/strong>, and incorporated them into the Madras Presidency gradually.<\/li>\n<li>In 1803, the British ousted the Marathas from the Puri-Cuttack region of Odisha during the Second Anglo-Maratha War. The northern and western districts of Odisha were incorporated into the Bengal Presidency.<\/li>\n<li>In 1903, the <strong>Utkal Sammilani organisation<\/strong> was founded to demand the unification of Odia-speaking regions into one state.<\/li>\n<li>On 1 April 1912, the Bihar and Orissa Province was formed\u00a0and on 1 April 1936, Bihar and Orissa were split into separate provinces.<\/li>\n<li>The new province of Orissa came into existence on a linguistic basis during the British rule in India, with <strong>Sir John Austen Hubback<\/strong> as the first governor.<\/li>\n<li>Following India&#8217;s independence, on 15 August 1947, 27 princely states signed the document to join Orissa.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is the 8th schedule of the Indian constitution?<\/h3>\n<p>The 8th schedule lists the official languages of the Republic of India. Part XVII of the Indian constitution deals with the official languages in Articles 343 to 351.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1912728\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>PM greets on Utkal Dibasa<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Utkal Divas is celebrated as the modern state of Odisha was established on 1 April 1936 at Kanika Palace, Cuttack, as a province in India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6929,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6928","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}