Rail Ministers three worded sentence 'coastline is goldmine' delivers a massive political punch to the ruling BJD

Schools with high students-to-classroom ratio, adhering to physical distancing norms and indoor masking when day time temperature is set to rise from Feb end, regular screening test mandatory, says CDC

Since 1994 capital punishment sentences were given to 66 convicts in the State, but the number of convicts on death row in Odisha at the end of 2021 were 11

A new updated return filing system is proposed wherein a voluntary updated return can be filed within 2 years from the end of the relevant Assessment Year (AY)

The FM has taxed high where that hurts Indian local industries, and has gone liberal where the imports as inputs are critical for Indian industries to run the show

Pandemic blow is writ large. As against the 15th FC award of Rs 114,777 cr to Odisha for FY 21-23, State will be receiving Rs 70,674 cr

Since services sector in Odisha takes 26.4 percent share in the total employment generated, the mayhem is visible when the sector went down weak at knees

Among 103 towns in Odisha, only a dozen passed the test of the geo-spatial and cartographic way of determining the growth in economic activity and development   

At such a critical phase, it seems the best bet for the Finance Minister is to spell out a short-term stabilisation fine print than a long-term vision

As per ADR report, the ruling BJD has recorded the highest erosion in its assets among the 44 regional parties. Party's miscellaneous expenditure second highest in the country

As per ICICI direct estimate, the gross budgetary support (capex) for the Railways in the FY 2022-23 will be Rs 1.3 lakh crore. 400 stations in country will be redeveloped under Railway Station Redevelopment Programme

As per Deloitte, the Union Budget 202-23 may introduce additional deduction towards “work from home

As per the CareEdge Budget Survey, a massive 58 percent of the respondents expect employment generation to be the main focus of Union Budget 2022-23

Recently, the Union Finance Minister has said that the upcoming Budget will be of a kind never seen before. This drops the big clue.

Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao flounders in Odisha. State figures in top-10 states with the sex ratio at birth below 900

State Health Department seems happy over  the daily dip in new infections, but the perturbing fact is declining daily caseload seems directly proportional to a drop in daily tests

Warning that threat level is high, INSACOG's latest bulletin said BA.2 lineage takes a substantial fraction in India. So, S-gene dropout based screening is thus likely to give high false negatives

Except for Bihar, there is a 40-50 percent probability of recording above normal temperature in all other states during the period of February to April 2022

In 2018, a year after BJD's big loss in 2017 Panchayat polls, the Association of Democratic Reforms (ADR) had done a survey in Odisha. As per survey, schemes (Yojanas) for Water, Jobs and Roads (Paani,...

The nominations for the post of sarpanch have risen by 30 percent in 2022. For other posts, the rise ranged between 18-27 percent. 18 lakh first-time voters to cast their rural ballot this time