Bhubaneswar: Even as the Odisha government inaugurated the birth of Biju Yuva Vahini in a grand way just 3-years ago, the home-truth to the fore now is the pet child of the Naveen Patnaik-led BJD...

Bhubaneswar: Even as Odisha claims of drawing actual private investment to the tune Rs 47,434 crore in 2019, the blooper for the State is the amount spent under CSR in the same period had been...

Bhubaneswar: Notwithstanding the pandemic push for the registration of new doctors in Odisha, the State is witnessing an acute shortage of allopathic doctors. An estimate puts the requirement of doctors in the State at 43,609...

Bhubaneswar: With the Election Commission of India announcing the poll dates for the bye-elections to the Pipili assembly constituency, Odisha is all set to witness another spectacular political battle soon. As per the ECI notification,...

Bhubaneswar: With the novel coronavirus refusing to lie down, instead of getting even more contagious with the new strains, the anxiety that grips every mind is when will m turn to take the vaccine to...

Bhubaneswar: “Political life loves volatility” goes the saying. The power corridors in Odisha – from State Assembly to Naveen Niwas – witnessed the spectre of volatility on Thursday when the main opposition BJP launched a...

Bhubaneswar: With Winter 2021 emerging as the third warmest in the country’s history since 1901, how will the summer month of April pan out for the common man? No respite in store for the common...

Bhubaneswar: In tandem with the recent projection by IIT Kanpur that the second wave in India will be having an exponential growth, the Covid-19 count in Odisha has been growing rapidly. The moot question then...

Bhubaneswar: As the Covid-19 count in the State is seen zipping up fast towards the 500-mark (461 new positives) on day one of April, western Odisha with over 54 per cent burden in the new...

Bhubaneswar: For the second time in successive months, Bhubaneswar rocked the mercury chart in the country. The Capital City of Odisha ruled as the hottest spot in the country in the last week of February,...

Bhubaneswar: For the people of Odisha, some relief from the roasting heat is apparently in sight. The heatwave will make an exit by the weekend. The moot point here is it making an exit for...

Bhubaneswar:  With the prices of petro-fuels burning the pockets of the common man, a big revelation has been if states agree with the Centre to bring the petro-products under the ambit of GST, only within...

Bhubaneswar: With Cuttack district joining the hotspot list of over 70 districts in the country where the new confirmed Covid-19 cases have grown by over 150 per cent between March 1-20, will Cuttack become the...

Bhubaneswar: With only a dozen days left for the Kharif procurement season in Odisha to end, the shocker is only 79 per cent of registered farmers have sold their paddy at MSP. As per the...

Bhubaneswar: The Covid-19 March jinx is seemingly continuing for Odisha. After the virus had first marched into Odisha in the month of March last year, the month in the year 2021 has again started giving...

Bhubaneswar: The Mid-Day Meal (MDM) Scheme in Odisha looks floundering. A big decline in the number of institutions and enrolled students in the State for the MDM scheme has been observed over the years. SAMPLE...

Bhubaneswar: If health department officials in Odisha are to be believed, it is the Maharashtra impact that is triggering a rise in the count of the new confirmed coronavirus cases in Odisha. Be it quarantine...

Bhubaneswar: How acute has been the rural unemployment in Odisha is evident from the epochal demand for unskilled jobs under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in the current year of 2020-21. The State had...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha is seemingly sitting on a Corona bomb that is ticking fast. The Test Positive Rates (TPR) of vulnerable city spots in the State have dropped the mega hint. As many as 4 centres...

Bhubaneswar: Here is a Covid-19 emergency alert for the people of Odisha. Either people here have to follow COVID-19 appropriate behaviour diligently or get ready to brace the virulence of new ‘double mutant’ variants of...