Bhubaneswar: Odisha’s tryst with climatic destiny seems to continue. Post the Fani catastrophe, the State could witness drought and a hotter June as Monsoon rains seem to play truant with Odisha courtesy the manifestation of...

Bhubaneswar: The 2019 battle for ballots in Odisha witnessed all the elements of political craft. Political parties across the spectrum tried all tricks, moves and counter moves to short-change their rivals. Significantly also, the 2019...

Bhubaneswar: Notwithstanding the high-sounding proclamations on reforming the State’s matric exams every year, controversies like question papers going viral on social media prior to the start of exams have stuck as a glue with the...

Bhubaneswar: With Odisha having voted for both the Lok Sabha and Vidhan Sabha, the Election Commission has waived the mandatory 14 tables counting norm for the State. “There is a norm of EC to have...

Bhubaneswar: Even as the mercury sizzled at a record level in the Capital City and the State as a whole in March this year, the torrid forecast here is come…

Bhubaneswar: Odisha has grown warmer over the years. The State’s 2018 annual mean temperature in major parts was recorded 0.5 -1 degree Celsius higher than the average mean temperature for the period 1981-2010. And summer...

Bhubaneswar: Notwithstanding the ‘TsuNamo’ hitting Odisha shores, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has had the last laugh as he piloted a fifth consecutive win for the BJD in Odisha. How disastrous the Modi tsunami has proved...

Bhubaneswar: When a debate is raging over the impact of Modi tsunami in Odisha 2019 polls, hard statistics speaks a lot. Virtually delivering a sort of warning shot to the BJD, the Bhartiya Janata Party...

Bhubaneswar: When consistency in all departments is the buzzword for a cricket team to emerge as the world champion, the same hard norms are equally indispensable for the political parties on a poll pitch. It’s...

Bhubaneswar: Unlike the average testing of samples to the tune of over 45k during the peak of the first wave, with a current average testing of around 41 k samples…

Bhubaneswar:  In a queer twist, the game-plan of CM Naveen Patnaik and BJD strategists to pit a record number of Rajya Sabha (RS) members in the 2019 polls seems proving counterproductive for the party. What...

Bhubaneswar:  As the fifth term of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik begins today, a younger looking council of ministers have taken oath along with the CM. But the ministerial council mirrors a skewed outlook as a...

Bhubaneswar: In his record fifth-term, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik’s Ministry making exercise didn’t show any green shoots towards streamlining of governance in Odisha, which the State needs badly to propel to a consistent growth path....

Bhubaneswar: While the Modi 2.0 today makes its grand beginning with the big inductions of BJP President Amit Shah and former Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar into the Modi Cabinet, for Odisha it heralds a loss...

Bhubaneswar: The portfolio allocations in the Modi 2.0 have witnessed a paradigm shift as some of the weighty ministries saw a change in guard. And the tectonic shift extends very much into the domain of...

Bhubaneswar: It is a shocker for the State! With a whopping of over 20.37 lakh in the State looking fervently for a job in 2017-18, Odisha was among the ten major States that emerged as...

Bhubaneswar: An anaemic future seems staring at Odisha! A whopping 20 districts in Odisha have recorded a big spike in the cases of severe anaemia in the expectant mothers. Severe anaemia in pregnant women in...

Bhubaneswar: With the pass out percentage in the Plus-2 Science stream hitting nearly a decade low of 72.33 per cent, it seems the clueless Council of Higher Secondary Education (CHSE) has put the blame on...

Bhubaneswar: With the theme of ‘Air Pollution’ this year, when the world observes the World Environment Day on Wednesday (observed on June 5 every year) the relevant query that stirs up one’s mind is who...

Bhubaneswar: As the countdown to the budget 2019-20 has started ticking,  the State Finance Department seems to have gone into a huddle to meet the gigantic fund requirement to the tune of Rs 85,000 to...