Bhubaneswar: It seems the justice delivery in Odisha takes its own time. In the indicator of average age of criminal cases pending, the State topped the country. Not only criminal cases, the average years of...

Bhubaneswar: With Odisha going to witness an increase of mere 6 per cent in the net proceeds of taxes and duties as devolution from Centre in 2019-20, this has the potential to make the State...

Bhubaneswar: With the Union Budget 2019-20 deciding to milk the fossil fuel prices to garner revenue, the diesel cost in Odisha now has become the 2nd most expensive after Telangana in the country. And the...

Bhubaneswar: Even as the rainfall activities in the State have gathered momentum bringing down the whopping 56 per cent deficient rainfall to mere 17 per cent by July first week, still as many as five...

Bhubaneswar: Not the junkst, it’s the fad for beer that has pushed Odisha to figure among the ‘high’ twenty states in the country. And the alarming fact is there are few jingled consumers in State...

Bhubaneswar: When the State is aghast over the rising cases of rape with as many as 6 cases being reported in a day, what shocks  is charge-sheeting rate in the State has hurtled down to...

Bhubaneswar: It’s a big development. The strange paradox bugging State’s much touted e-procurement system is while the procured paddy/rice quantum had shown a spike over the years, the number of farmers benefitted had shown a...

Bhubaneswar: Signalling an intense rural distress gripping the State, Odisha’s average annual wages of farm labour for the first time in last 5-years had posted a negative growth in 2018-19. The State finished at the...

Bhubaneswar: Here is a classic display of how politics is overriding the  development needs in Odisha. The State under State Plan had spent Rs 71 crore under Nutrition for Children (as per 2016-17 Budget Actuals)....

Bhubaneswar: With an emphasis on C2 (Congestion & Comfort), the Rail Budget 2019-20 has allocated over Rs 5,800 crore for the rail infra development in Odisha. The highlight of this year’s budget is Rs 180...

Bhubaneswar: When it comes to have a power play of 24X7 in the rural areas, Odisha failed to click the full scoring rate. Rural areas in the State witnessed power cuts for nearly 3-hours in...

Bhubaneswar: Is Naveen idolising PM Modi now or the crafty politician in Naveen is donning the mantle? It seems its fifty-fifty. These posers are abuzz in the political circles in a big way post CM...

Bhubaneswar: It seems two trigger-factors have made the ruling BJD press the ‘Central share’ button for its much touted KALIA scheme yesterday in Parliament. First, the ruling BJD has promised KALIA for only five agricultural...

Bhubaneswar: Attention government job seekers in Odisha! The Odisha circle of India Post will soon come out with vacancies at various levels numbering over a thousand. While vacancies at the level of Postal Assistant/Sorting Assistant...

Bhubaneswar: Here is good news for Odisha! When the State’s rainfall deficit has inched up again to 21 per cent as on Sunday from 14 per cent on Wednesday, weather models show brewing up of...

Bhubaneswar: The triple murder near Puri yesterday seems to have triggered the uproar in the State Assembly today with the opposition leaders, in tandem, seeking answers from the ruling party on the  deteriorating Law and...

Bhubaneswar: When the State has recorded a higher unemployment rate of 7.1 per cent in 2017-18, compared to 6.1 per cent nationally, the vacancies in State government offices have gone up by a whopping 14,000....

Bhubaneswar: How can the aam aadmi feel safe on Odisha’s roads? When around 85,000 – 90,000 new criminals (as per Police records, 2018 saw arrest of 85-90K first time offenders) joined the State’s crime world...

Bhubaneswar: Will Odisha meet the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) target of providing road connectivity to all habitations in 2019-20? It seems impossible. Responding to a query on PMGSY progress in Odisha,  Rural Development...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha seems staring at a big crisis as six get killed by the pachyderms every month. The State figured among the top three nationally in human toll in jumbo attacks. As per a written...