Bhubaneswar: Eighteen years after the failure of power discom privatisation in Odisha, the acquisition of CESU (Central electricity Supply Utility) by Tata Power signals a new beginning in the State’s power reforms. Significantly, Delhi, where...

Bhubaneswar:  Even before Modi cabinet gave its nod to National Population Register (NPR) scheduled  to start from April 2020 across the country,  three states, namely, West Bengal, Kerala and Rajasthan, have decided to stall the...

Bhubaneswar: It’s incredible. The people here have let down the State. For which, Odisha now tops the country in proportion of power lost per theft in towns. As per the data available under IPDS (Integrated...

Bhubaneswar: What Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik disclosed on BJD’s 23rd birth anniversary is not anything brand new, the only subtle difference is earlier he had spoken about successor when prodded. Then he had said ‘people...

Bhubaneswar: The breakneck speed at which the bed occupancy in Covid hospitals during the last eight days has grown in Odisha indicates that the second wave of Covid-19 in the…

Bhubaneswar: The time for a flash back as the countdown begins for the departure of year 2019.  For politicians, the year has been an ordeal by fire. However, the year had the last laugh as...

Bhubaneswar: Even as the Met department has issued orange warning with a prediction that cold and severe cold wave conditions will sweep across half of Odisha’s landscape, the big relief is sunny morning will greet...

Bhubaneswar:  Since Odisha’s worst cyclonic disaster became talking point of the nation, the departing 2019 could  well be remembered as a calamitous year in State’s history. The tumultuous fact is State had to bear the...

Bhubaneswar:  Be it the instance of killing of BJP leader Manguli Jena during elections 2019 or the sensational Puri triple murder in June/July or the alleged sexual assault on a class 7 tribal girl by...

Bhubaneswar: With the second wave having choked out the lives of as many 31 people in Odisha in just 21 days, the lethality is the second wave is seemingly killing…

Bhubaneswar: New year 2020 dawned on today. But 1980’s challenges of  poverty and hunger are still daunting Odisha.  The grip of hunger and poverty still acute in Odisha and the State languished in the bottom-10...

Bhubaneswar: It seems year 2020 rings in the bad days for the Casanovas on streets. Now, Roadside Romeos will pass comment or indulge in eve-teasing at their own risk. The Twin City Police Commissionerate will...

Bhubaneswar: With the Niti Aayog’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Index 2019-20 showing a dip in sex ratio at birth, the Odisha government has recently brought all 30 districts under the Modi Government’s flagship scheme Beti...

Bhubaneswar: No respite from wintry rains for five districts of Puri, Khurda, Ganjam, Gajapati and Nayagarh for next 24 hours. Widespread rains are predicted for tomorrow in the five districts. As per the latest IMD...

Bhubaneswar: The numbers are very disgusting. The tentative figures show Odisha wrapped up the year 2019 with over 2,524 rapes. And over 44 per cent of the rape burden is borne by only 9 districts....

Bhubaneswar:  Only days after pocketing the Krishi Karman Award in Agriculture, big revelation from the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) 2018 report on Accidents and Suicides in India is, Odisha draws a neat big ‘zero’...

Bhubaneswar: True to the saying that politics is the art of looking trouble, ruling party spokesperson Lenin Mohanty discovers one in the Special Police Officer concept of Commissionerate Police. The BJD spokesperson finds the Women...

Bhubaneswar:  In Prime Minister Modi’s LED revolution, it’s Odisha which has seemingly ‘led’ the country in LED revolution. The State topped the country in LED bulbs distribution. The State remained light years ahead of its...

Bhubaneswar: With year 2019 being declared by IMD as the seven most warmest year in India’s recorded history, it’s Odisha which figures among the major states that bore the brunt. As per IMD’s Annual Climate...

Bhubaneswar:  Only in the last month of year 2019, Odisha saw nearly half a dozen suicides. The count of 12 suicides every day in State is simply devastating. The victims’ status ranges from housewives, students...