which is sponsored by the government of Odisha. The state, Batra mentioned, provides equal importance and opportunity for all sports such as cricket, football, field hockey, tennis, badminton, chess and many more. Media The city's widely circulated Odia-language newspapers are Sambad, Dharitri, Pragatibadi, Samaja, News 7, Argus, Khabara, Orissa Bhaskara, Prameya and Samaya. Orissa Post and Odia Age are the English-language newspaper that is produced and published from Bhubaneswar. Other popular English-language newspapers published and sold in Bhubaneswar include The Times of India, The Statesman, Hindustan Times, The Hindu, The Indian Express and the Asian Age. Bhubaneswar has substantial circulation of financial dailies, including The Economic Times, The Financial Express, Business Line and Business Standard. Vernacular newspapers, such as those in the Hindi, Bengali and Telugu languages are read by minorities. Major periodicals based in Bhubaneswar include Saptahika Samaya, Saptahika Samaja and Kadambini. All India Radio, the national state-owned radio broadcaster, airs several AM channels from the radio station located in Cuttack. Bhubaneswar has five local radio stations broadcasting on FM, including two from AIR. India's state-owned television broadcaster Doordarshan Odia provides two free-to-air terrestrial channels, while a mix of Odia, Hindi, English and other regional channels are accessible via cable subscription and direct-broadcast satellite services. Some of the Odia language television channels are Sidarth TV, Manjari, Colors Odia, Sarthak TV and Tarang TV. Odia-language 24-hour television news channels include News 7, Argus, Odisha TV, Kanak TV, ETV News Odia, MBC TV and Naxatra News. Notable people The following are some of the notable people associated (i.e. either born or spent a significant part of their life) with Bhubaneswar: Subroto Bagchi Ranjib Biswal Dutee Chand Nabakrushna Choudhuri Ileana Citaristi Bidhu Bhusan Das Prabhat Nalini Das Pankaj Charan Das J. B. S. Haldane Baidyanath Misra B. K. Misra Bhubaneswar Mishra Bijay Mohanty Debashish Mohanty Gopinath Mohanty Saraju Mohanty Uttam Mohanty Bibhu Mohapatra Kelucharan Mohapatra Mira Nair Oopali Operajita Sanjukta Panigrahi Ramesh Chandra Parida Prasanna Kumar Patasani Biju Patnaik Janaki Ballabh Patnaik Naveen Patnaik Sudarsan Pattnaik Rakesh Pradhan Trilochan Pradhan Biswa Kalyan Rath Mahasweta Ray Tandra Ray Archita Sahu Salabega Achyuta Samanta Pathani Samanta Helen Spurway Mayadhar Swain <!- - ONLY ADD A PERSON TO THIS LIST IF THEY ALREADY HAVE A WIKIPEDIA ARTICLE--> Sister cities Cupertino, California, United States Bloemfontein, South Africa See also Bhubaneswar ITIR Chari Kshetra Ghanteswara Siva Temple List of neighbourhoods in Bhubaneswar List of parks in Bhubaneswar