Bhubaneswar: With a new strain of Coronavirus, the virus that causes common cold, acute respiratory infections like MERS & SARS, having taken a lethal grip on China and it being further spread to many southeast...

Bhubaneswar: A good news for the consumers.  Onions can no more give buyers a teary eye, nor the potato will be too hot to handle in 2020. The 2019-20 horticultural year’s first advance estimates predict...

Bhubaneswar: Panicked over the misguided protests, Odisha government was today seen giving a carte blanche to the illegal immigrants residing in the State to dwell so without fear. In a far reaching decision, during the...

Bhubaneswar:  Odisha becomes the second state after Chhattisgarh to record an outbreak of avian flu cases in the country in year 2020. Significantly, in the first week of January, the neighbouring state has reported death...

Bhubaneswar: With the Union Cabinet on Friday having vetted the Medical Termination of Pregnancy (Amendment) Bill 2020, India has joined a select group of 67 countries across the world where the upper gestation limit for...

Bhubaneswar: It seems no ‘Taali’ (clap) for the ‘Thali’ (plate) in Odisha. The State tops the entire eastern region with its costliest vegetarian and non-vegetarian Thali. The result is a daily wager has to shell...

Bhubaneswar: Finance Minister Sitharaman’s budget will bring sunshine for the farmers in Odisha. The major announcement that the PM KUSUM (Kisan Urja Suraksha evam Utthaan Mahabhiyan ) Yojana will cover an additional 15 lakh farmers...

Bhubaneswar: In contrast to the fears of a decreased central devolution to Odisha owing to affects of economic slowdown on GST collection, the budget 2020-21 has, however, budgeted a hefty rise of 19 per cent...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha’s share in the net proceeds of central taxes and duties seems to have been sliced by the Fifteenth Finance Commission (FFC). The State’s share has declined to 4.629 per cent from 4.642 per...

Bhubaneswar: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has unveiled in budget 2020-21 a plan to develop five archaeological sites of eminence as iconic sites with on-site museums. The big message it holds for Odisha is the State...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha is the most disaster prone State in the country. The State scored the highest of 60 out of 70 in the Disaster Risk Index (DRI) prepared by the Fifteenth Finance Commission (FFC). The...

Bhubaneswar:  Even as expenditure under the Corporate Sector Responsibility (CSR) bounced back in Odisha, it is yet to witness a uniform spending of CSR across the State. A high of 13 districts in the State...

Bhubaneswar: The grip of cancer over Odisha is growing acute. In the year 2018, cancer had killed 74 every 24 hours in the State vis-a-vis 66 in 2015. The total mortalities had reached 27,190 in...

Bhubaneswar: With the first ever successful deceased organ transplantation having been done at SCB Medical College and Hospital in Odisha on Monday night, the State has joined the select group of around 10 States/UTs in...

Bhubaneswar: How could a common man feel safe on Odisha roads, when nearly 49,000 new criminals were on the prowl during the year 2019, whereas there were mere around 27,000 civil policemen to guard against....

Bhubaneswar: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s imprint is clearly discernible in the Railway Budget 2020-21 for Odisha. Not only State’s many languishing rail projects received a capital boost in the rail budget but some of the...

Bhubaneswar: In a far reaching move, the Odisha Cabinet on Friday has decided to repeal the Odisha Civil Services (Rehabilitation Assistance) Rules 1990 and frame Odisha Civil Services (Rehabilitation Assistance) Rules 2020. The Cabinet while...

Bhubaneswar: After a long dithering for three years (2017-2019), Odisha government  has finally decided to implement POSHAN Abhiyaan in State from the current year. The POSHAN Abhiyaan was launched in 2017 by the Modi Government,...

Bhubaneswar: A thunder struck for Odisha! The State nowhere figured in the NDMA’s (National Disaster Management Authority) plan to put up lightning arrester tools in intensive lightning-hit districts in states of Goa, Gujarat, Kerala, Karnataka,...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha will remain in the grip of hostile weather for the next 72 hours. Though rains will subside from Monday, fog and chill will engulf the State till Tuesday. The weather prediction by US-based...