Anil Dhir

The roundabout where the Satyanagar flyover ends has the national emblem of India, the adaptation of the Lion Capital of Ashoka, a statue from 280 BCE. A stone carved emblem had been put up…

Captain John Jacob, the founder president of the INA Committee to the Government of India, was a member of INA’s Suicide Squad. He was also enrolled into the INA’s Officer’s training school…

Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose had declared the formation of Provisional Government of Free India (Azad Hind) at Singapore on this day (October 21), 78 years ago (1943). The Provisional…

The first flag of Independent India was hoisted by Colonel Shaukat Malik of the Indian National Army at Moirang near Imphal on April 14, 1944. The flag has been in the possession of YA…

The needless brouhaha about Rajnath Singh’s statement on Mahatma Gandhi’s advice to Vinayak Damodar Savarkar for his mercy petition has finally settled. In the annals of the Indian…

In 2011, the United Nations had named journalism as the most dangerous profession in the world. The International Federation of Journalists’ 2020 report on media staff killed in work-related…

Bhubaneswar: Lord Vishwakarma, the god of architecture, is worshipped all over India. In Odisha, this has always been a very popular festival. But, like last year, this time too coronavirus…

Bhubaneswar: While the demolition of the old structures under the Ekamra Kshetra Development plans has been on hold  in the Old Town of Bhubaneswar ever since the Suka Sari episode, the…

The recent announcement by the Odisha government with regards to the Airport Authority of India’s green signal for the International Airport near Puri came with the note that it fulfilled…

“The steam engine has done much more for science than science has done for the steam engine.” ― Lord Kelvin. Mounted just a hundred metres from the beach, the engine has been buffeted by…