Utkala Deepika

The Utkala Deepika was the first Odia printed newspaper. The weekly paper was started on August 4, 1866 by Gourishankar Ray and Babu Bichitrananda Das. Therefore, 4 August is celebrated as Odia Journalism Day.

This weekly was instrumental in campaigning of bringing all Odia speaking tracts under a single province in India to develop the Odia language.