Bhubaneswar: With the exit of monsoon from Odisha, aerosols cover in the atmosphere over Odisha have increased. Even as the Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) value for Odisha has been estimated at around 0.8-0.9, which is...

Bhubaneswar: A major upheaval to the fore in Odisha’s animal husbandry sector. Within a span of 7-years, the populations of cattle, goat and sheep in the State have posted a decline. However, what raises an...

Bhubaneswar: Despite in the midst of Autumn, Odisha is yet to experience the weather comfort. And the mugginess in the weather looks all set to continue till Diwali. As per the IMD data, the maximum...

Bhubaneswar: When the State government has set the paddy procurement target at 60 Lakh MT for 2019-20 Kharif Marketing Season (KMS), the revelation is State agencies are still saddling with a whopping around 4.19 lakh...

Bhubaneswar: Never ever try to live by the philosophy of US philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson – live in Sunshine, swim the sea and drink the wild air – in the coastal waters of Paradip and...

Bhubaneswar: Shocking and disgusting! Odisha prominently figures in the top -10 infamous states in the country where the crime rate against women is very high. All posturing by the powers that be in the State...

Bhubaneswar: It seems riots ran riot in Odisha! For which, the State topped the country in industrial riots, ranked number two in political riots and number three in communal or religious riots in the year...

Bhubaneswar: For Odisha, it seems disaster management is limited to evacuation of people before any cyclone. Pest management triggered by unseasonal rainfall looks apparently a Greek to its lexicon of disaster management. When IMD made...

Bhubaneswar: In a big twist to the 1980’s Anil Kapoor – Meenakshi Sheshadri starred film ‘Love Marriage’, where the film ended with a big caption ‘Love Marriage is Injurious to Health’, the NCRB report has,...

Bhubaneswar: Maintaining its winning streak in bye-elections, the Naveen Patnaik – led ruling BJD Thursday pocketed the Bijepur Assembly seat with a record winning margin. In the bye-poll held on October 21, the ruling BJD...

Bhubaneswar: Is Odisha becoming crime prone? It seems so. The emergence of ‘new offenders’ (means in police lexicon they are either debut criminals or criminals arrested but acquitted) has posted an astronomical rise in Odisha....

Bhubaneswar: Notwithstanding the Supreme Court ruling in 2015 that directed all states to mandatorily install CCTV cameras in the jails by the year 2016, prisons in Odisha are yet to be brought under full-fledged CCTV...

Bhubaneswar: Even as the Apex Court in its ruling in 2018 directed for using only ‘green crackers’ and had stipulated 2-hour window for fire-works on Diwali day to curb noise and air pollution, Odisha seems...

Bhubaneswar: Is a crime disaster in the making in Odisha? The State has seen an unprecedented rise in kidnapping and abductions of children. In a span of 5-years, the humongous rise of 1041 per cent...

Bhubaneswar: A somewhat Happy Diwali for Odisha, at least in the Capital City. When the noise pollution in the peak hours (8 PM) on the D-day hovered at around 72, the bad news is the...

Bhubaneswar: The rural power play in Odisha has hiccups galore. While the State even in the monsoon period (August 2019) failed to provide 24X7 power supply in rural areas, the frequent power outages in the...

Bhubaneswar: Is a Low Pressure Area (LOPAR) likely to develop over the Andaman sea on November 4 later progress into a cyclone in Bay of Bengal (BoB)? Significantly, October – November period has been the...

Bhubaneswar: When as many as eight die of tuberculosis (TB) in every 24 hours in Odisha, the diabolical omen for the State is the big drop in successful treatment rate last year. Odisha, which figured...

Bhubaneswar: Dry days will soon time out as heavy rains will lash Odisha from November 9 under the influence of a tropical depression that will cross Andhra Pradesh coasts by November 11-12. As per the...

Bhubaneswar: With Delhi turning a gas chamber since yesterday, is the air in Odisha’s Capital City, the town of temples, any better? Though the situation doesn’t look that worse when seen through the prism of...