Cuttack

[ kuht-uhk ]

noun

1. a city in E Odisha, in NE India.

Cuttack

/ kʌˈtæk /

noun

1. a city in NE India, in E Odisha (formerly Orissa) near the mouth of the Mahanadi River: former state capital until 1948. Pop: 535 139 (2001)

Example Sentences

Reporting from outside the SCB hospital in the city of Cuttack, BBC correspondent Archana Shukla described the scenes of "despair, distress and chaos".

From BBC

Sounds of ambulance sirens have been going off every 30 minutes outside the trauma centre in the SCB hospital in the city of Cuttack - where critically injured passengers have been wheeled in.

From BBC

Some people met by the BBC ran from the accident site to nearby hospitals before coming to the facility in Cuttack - searching for their families who were on board the trains.

From BBC

Shashwat Gupta, a 25-year-old information technology worker who had boarded one of the trains in Kolkata along with his sister and her children to visit his parents in the city of Cuttack in Odisha, said their coach had flipped “to a 90-degree angle” after a sudden jerk.

From New York Times

Mr Sarangi, who's the police commissioner for the state capital, Bhubaneswar, and its twin city Cuttack, reopened the case and gave it a code name - "Operation Silent Viper".

From BBC