Bhubaneswar: After registering a deficient rainfall of around 34 per cent during the month of June, the coming month (July) will be a wet one for Odisha. As per the rainfall data till date with...
Bhubaneswar: With CM Naveen Patnaik’s pet programme ‘Ama Gaon, Ama Bikas’ witnessing a big cut in allocation to Rs 400 crore in 2019-20 budget from a whopping Rs 1,250 crore in 2017-18, the budget delivered...
Bhubaneswar: It seems surfeit of schemes has taken a toll on the State finances. The biggest fallout noticed in the annual budget 2019-20 presented by new Finance Minister Niranjan Pujari today points to a big...
Bhubaneswar: In presenting a rosy picture of the State’s economy during the last fiscal, the Economic Survey 2018-19 had claimed that the State has moved up the ladder in the per capita income from bottom(25th)...
Bhubaneswar: Notwithstanding the State Government going gaga over 8.3 per cent growth in agriculture and allied sector in 2018-19, a reality check illustrates a grim scenario at hand for the crop and milk farmers in...
Bhubaneswar: The numbers sound disastrous! When the State had witnessed as many 21 natural disasters in a span of almost 17 years, all that Odisha could receive was a mere 12 per cent of its...
Bhubaneswar: With the Niti Aayog – World Bank Health Index 2.0 sounding an alarm bell for the State on killer TB disease, the death toll due to TB in Odisha in 2017 (Niti Index’s reference...
Bhubaneswar: The Modi Sarkar 1.0 had provided gainful employment to a whopping 2.74 lakh youths in Odisha during the period 2014-19 under its flagship programme PM Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY). And Odia youths were seen...
Bhubaneswar: With the monsoon current going weak again, the good riddance for the State is within a span of around 10-days, Bay of Bengal (BoB) region around the State will again witness a low pressure area...
Bhubaneswar: In Odisha’s poor show in the Niti-World Bank Health Index-2.0 released yesterday, the total vacancies of doctors and specialists have played a key role. The index has clearly shown a deterioration in the indicator...
Bhubaneswar: An alarming trend has come to the fore in Odisha. As many as 14 districts have recorded a dip in sex ratio at birth in 2018-19, compared to the 2011 census. The overall proportion...
Bhubaneswar: After a stint of nearly two decades in politics, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has emerged not only as a politician, but also one who is quite calculative. Naveen has scrutinised every political relationship via the prism of ‘political cost -benefit equation’. There are instances galore...
Bhubaneswar: Here is a shocker. Despite recording a toll of 157 deaths due to Acute Encephalitis Syndrome and Japanese Encephalitis (AES/JE) in 2016, the revelation is Odisha Health Department has not identified any AES/JE endemic...
Bhubaneswar: There goes a popular saying politics is the art of possible. And Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik quite majestically played it up on the political stage here when after fighting a gruelling duel to protect...
Bhubaneswar: Are the mild tremors felt in western Odisha on Wednesday an indication of any big quake in the making in that part of the State? As per reports, in the dusk hours of Wednesday,...
Bhubaneswar: Like the Bihar health mandarins, the new Odisha health minister Naba Kishore Das seems to be in denial mode that Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) is a reality in Odisha, notwithstanding the bitter reality of...
Bhubaneswar: As the new Finance Minister Niranjan Pujari will be presenting the first budget of Naveen 5.0 on coming Friday (June 28), the big watch out point in the upcoming full budget 2019-20 is the...
Bhubaneswar: When lack of proper case management saw Bihar saddled with a whopping 125 fatalities of children due to AES in the month of June so far, the alarming fact for Odisha is, it had...
Bhubaneswar: With Odisha having recorded a nearly 34 per cent deficient rainfall vis-a-vis the normal for the month of June till date, the State is all set to witness a virtually wet week during June...
Bhubaneswar: In what comes as a shocker, Odisha has reported a big rise in cases of Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) or say induced abortions over the years. What is concerning is the proportion of...
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