Jagatsinghpur District is an administrative district of Orissa, India. The city of Jagatsinghpur is the district headquarters. Orissa (2001 provisional pop. ... Jagatsinghpur is a district of Orissa, India. ...

Jagatsinghpur is also famous for the Sarala Temple and is well-known as the cultural heart of Orissa. The district (smallest in size among the 30 districts in Orissa) has produced some of the most famous names in Oriya and Indian literature: Sarala Das, Birakishore, Gopal Chhotaray, and Bibhuti Pattnaik, for example. Indian literature is generally acknowledged, but not wholly established, as the oldest in the world. ...

Paradip, a modern deepwater port, was built in the 1960s, and has now become a hot business destination due to the largest foreign direct investment (FDI) in India as POSCO is setting up a plant along with its own port for transportation. Indian Oil Corporation has been trying to set up an oil refinery also. Port of Paradip is the primary seaport in the Indian state of Orissa. ... Foreign direct investment (FDI) is the movement of capital across national frontiers in a manner that grants the investor control over the acquired asset. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... For alternate meanings, see IOC (disambiguation). ...

Jagatsinghpur was the worst hit district in the super cyclone in October 1999 in which thousands of people died. Radar image of a tropical cyclone in the northern hemisphere. ... Look up October in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

The District is also famous for having the most no of successful theater groups which has helped in keeping the old tradition of live acting before crowd.The theater groups have become the part of mainstream entertainment for people all over Orissa.

External link

• Jagatsinghpur District official website