Bhubaneswar: The Odisha State Assembly is virtually in turmoil for the second consecutive day on Friday. The opposition – BJP and Congress – are in a paddy over the ‘messy paddy procurement’ by the State...

Bhubaneswar: Even as Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik is known as a man of few words, his brief speech in the sixth meeting of the Niti Aayog’s governing council today has stoked a larger political debate...

Bhubaneswar: The pandemic has derailed the economic growth engine of Odisha. The State is projected to record its worst ever contraction of Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP) in the last decade. Odisha’s real GSDP is...

Bhubaneswar: Here is a warning shot for the powers that be in Odisha, when farmers protest is hogging the headlines in the country. The Economic Survey 2021 shows the prevalence of a sort of agrarian...

Bhubaneswar: With the Economic Survey 2020-21 having virtually sounded the decade-worst contraction bugle in Odisha economy on Saturday, all riveting attention is on the State Finance Minister Niranjan Pujari who will be tabling his third,...

Bhubaneswar: It seems the hon’ble members of Odisha State Assembly are very happy to oblige to the British tradition of presenting the budget at 5 pm in the evening. This is so when the Union...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Agriculture Budget tabled today in State Assembly delivered a big shocker when the farmer unrest is making headlines in the country. Despite the State Agriculture sector in the State having been contracted...

Bhubaneswar: Unlike the last budget, Finance Minister Niranjan Pujari has allocated Rs 175 crore less to the irrigation schemes in the State. Moreover, the irrigation budget carries an imprint of ‘Made for Western Odisha’. A...

Bhubaneswar: Unlike the mantra of higher spending in the Union Budget 2021-22, and when developed countries like the US and others in European Union have not hesitated in opening up their coffers after the pandemic...

Bhubaneswar: Even as the price of petrol today in Odisha is hovering at around Rs 92 per litre, more crude oil anxieties are in store for the common man on the streets in the coming...

Bhubaneswar: The power play in Odisha is in a piquant position. The question nagging every mind is what will happen to the State if the lone bulk power supply utility…

Bhubaneswar: With February being on its last legs, it seems Odisha is in for a hotter March. The mercury is set to shoot over the 40 degrees Celsius mark in the third week of March....

Bhubaneswar: For the Capital city of Odisha, there seem no days of respite from the hotter climes for at least 13 more days. The mercury is even predicted to touch the 40 degrees Celsius mark...

Bhubaneswar: In tandem with the national trend, Odisha has also been displaying a higher rate of transmission in the second wave of Covid-19 vis-a-vis the first wave. What seems nagging…

Bhubaneswar: The prices of auto fuels look fired-up in India. Within 48 hours, the price of the Indian crude oil basket has increased by around 6 per cent to touch $65.70 per barrel today, though...

Bhubaneswar: Even as the Odisha government finds itself busy in putting pre-emptive measures to thwart the Covid-19 resurgence risk in the State, the pandemic blip on the State’s Coronavirus radar is new corona cases are...

Bhubaneswar: Even as a whopping over 45 per cent of the Tehsils in Odisha report massive illegal sand mining, the State government has apparently gone pound sand to the problem. Odisha, along with Jharkhand, is...

Bhubaneswar: In a clear display of deja vu, for a whopping over 46 lakh people in Odisha, collecting a pitcher of water will prove a herculean task this summer. As per the data released by...

Bhubaneswar: With Odisha’s Capital City now ruling as the hottest city in the country, and when the setting in of hot day conditions in the winter (January – February is regarded as winter by IMD)...

Bhubaneswar: This is no music to the ears of Odisha. It seems the skill development in the State is battling with serious problems. Odisha neither has scored big in employability nor in the availability of...