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: 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: 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:  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: 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: 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 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 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Even as there has been much hype over the Biju Swasthya Kalyan Yojana or Naveen care, the shocker is  Odisha languishes at the bottom – ten in doctor-to-population ratio in the country by January...

Bhubaneswar: With Odisha Government claiming to have equipped all the 13,306 Fair Price Shops (FPS) in the State with Point -of-Sale (PoS) machines, a 100 per cent digitization of ration cards and an online PDS...

Bhubaneswar: Here is a stark instance that vividly portrays how politics supercedes the theme of development in Odisha. The State had witnessed an embarrassing situation in Gumdumaha over killing of innocent tribals only 2-years back...

Bhubaneswar: With only a day left for the World famous Rath Yatra, a reality check of the pilgrim town Puri reveals how one among the ‘chaar dhams’  lacks the wherewithal to handle the colossal municipal...

Bhubaneswar: With the pilgrim city all decked up for the annual World famous car fest tomorrow, it seems rains will also have a day out on the town on the big day. The latest weather...

Bhubaneswar: Mid-day Meal (MDM) scheme in Odisha is apparently in distress. For the last four-year period, not only institutions implementing the MDM schemes were on the descent but a steep dip in MDM beneficiaries was...

Bhubaneswar: In the country’s swachh drive, Odisha failed to do a neat job. The State finished second from bottom in the country in the indicator of access to sanitation. Consequently, Odisha was ranked as the...