On the occasion of Nature Conservation Day (July 28), it's apt to discuss the plastic menace. Regulating use of polythene...

Good things are happening in India as shops are moving towards a polythene-free regime. Switching to alternate bags is also...

Some decades ago, Bhubaneswar invested in creating a street that looks like Dubai with date palms etc. Yet it is...

Every year, three new chariots are constructed for the Rath Yatra in Odisha's Puri town. It starts with collection of...

Speaker Sir, on becoming the 21st Speaker of Odisha Legislative Assembly, I’m sure you will safeguard democracy as well as...

Amid the triple planetary crisis of climate change, nature and biodiversity loss, and pollution and waste, recently-concluded Stockholm+50 acted as...

It’s 50 years since the Stockholm Conference in 1972 decided to celebrate World Environment Day on June 5 every year....

Our cities are fast becoming a society of obese children living in polluted neighbourhood. Cycling to school is often mentioned...

With urban planning, since its evolution, focusing on planned growth of a city by facilitating land use, the world now...

Bhubaneswar: The man whom Mahatma Gandhi described as a great patriot, who wore himself out in giving shape and reality...