Nua Dunia

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Nuadunia
TypeWeekly Newspaper
FormatPrint
Owner(s)Communist Party of India Odisha State Council
PublisherPrasant Patjoshi
EditorRamesh Chandra Padhi
Founded1942
Political alignment Left-wing
Language Odia
Headquarters Bhubaneswar
Website www.nuadunia.com

The Nua Dunia is a Odia weekly newspaper published in Odisha, India. [1] [2] [3] It is the official organ of the Odisha State Council of the Communist Party of India. Ramesh Chandra Padhi is the editor of Nuadunia. [4]

Nuadunia was established in 1942, and was initially published from Cuttack as the organ of the Utkal State Council of CPI. [5] [6] Initial editors were Mohan Das, Prananath Patnaik, Ramakrushna Pati, Sarat Patnaik. [6] As of the early 1970s Gurucharan Patnaik  [ or ] was the editor of the weekly. [5] [6]

As of the early 2000s, Nuadunia had a circulation of 20,483. [7]

Initially the newspaper was named Janajudha ('People's War'). [8]

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