Bhubaneswar:  Odisha shows the way how statistics can be made pliable. The National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) 2018 report released today shows rapes in Odisha down by a whopping nearly 53 per cent. The total...

Bhubaneswar: The film Chhapaak is seemingly more about how in 2005, a 15-year old Delhi girl Laxmi Agarwal was attacked with acid by a 32-year old youth Nadeem Khan only to avenge for being rejected...

Bhubaneswar: Even as CM Naveen Patnaik has so assiduously decided to go for ‘Mo Sarkar’ and 5T in 2019, the big NCRB blooper has been Odisha figured among the handful of states like Chhattisgarh, Kerala...

Bhubaneswar: Even as Odisha ranks among top-10 states in prevalence of child marriages, State police could rescue only 22 victims under Prohibition of Child Marriages (PCM) Act in 2018. In contrast, Tamil Nadu, which is...

Bhubaneswar:  It’s no more Phoolan Devi’s UP or dreaded Gabbar Singh Gujjar or Gabbar Singh’s (on whose life film Sholay has been made) MP, but Odisha and Maharashtra have emerged as the hunting ground for...

Bhubaneswar: Even as Odisha has been spending on an average 10 per cent of total expenditure every year on rural development during the period of 2017-18 to 2019-20, the State still fared poor and figured...

Bhubaneswar: Is BJD strategising to launch its 2024 political campaign right from now? Clues are galore over BJD’s latest political chess play. Significantly, the demand of caste-based enumeration is related to Census that will take...

Bhubaneswar: Dreadful numbers for Children in Odisha. The State saw 7 girl children kidnapped and 5 girls gone missing every day in year 2018. Such alarming numbers tumble out for Odisha in the recently released...

Bhubaneswar: No good news for Odisha. The State keeps figuring among top states having high industrial riots since 2014. Odisha had registered 75 industrial riots in 2018, next only to Tamil Nadu. In fact, Odisha...

Bhubaneswar: Feeling the pinch of price rise in a hard way? Why not, when Odisha has emerged as the top pricey State in the country. The annual inflation rate released on Monday by Central Statistics...

Bhubaneswar: Even as Odisha is observing the Road safety Week with the theme of Sadak Suraksha – Jeevan Raksha, the big observation is authorities – RTO and Odisha Police – seem to have turned a...

Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has very assiduously introduced 5T and Mo Sarkar in police recently with an objective to build the bridge of trust deficit existing between police and common men on streets. Moreover,...

Bhubaneswar: With the second wave of coronavirus heading towards a bigger peak this time in Odisha, with projections indicating the daily positive count touching 10k, the State government claimed there…

Bhubaneswar:  With the clocking in of new year 2020, all room Air Conditioners (ACs) covered under the ambit of Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) star-labelling programme will be mandatorily having a 24 degree C default...

Bhubaneswar: Former US President Dwight D Eisenhower had said “If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha is still languishing in utilisation of District Mineral Fund (DMF) in the country. The State figured among the bottom – ten in untilisation of funds under the Pradhan Mantri Khanij Kshetra Kalyan Yojana...

Bhubaneswar:  When former British PM Winston Churchill had said politics is not a game, it’s an earnest business, nearly a year after the big bang 2019 elections, how is the political sensex trending in Odisha....

Bhubaneswar: Odisha is yet to be counted among top-10 job creators in the country. The acuteness of joblessness in the State is well evidenced by the hard numbers. As per the net payroll data released...

Bhubaneswar:  In the last three years, the caving in of roof of a building under construction at Biju Patnaik International Airport (BPIA) here is the fifth such successive lethal collapse in Odisha. In this mishap,...

Bhubaneswar:  As the nation celebrated its 71st Republic Day on Sunday, with a grandeur display of the whole might of Indian heritage, culture and military strides, the rolling out of Rukuna Rath tableau from Odisha...