Piyush Rout

On September 1, 1923, Tokyo and Japan’s second-most populous city Yokohama were hit by the Great Kantō earthquake, leaving around 140,000 people dead or missing. About 45% of urban area in…

The debate around this year's Rath Yatra is to move with tradition, but without devotees for the second year. It calls for a shift in focus to another event and its management in the United…

A debate is raging in Bhubaneswar over the flattening of the city's last but one roundabout as part of the Smart City project, while the UK opened its first Dutch-style roundabout at…

Bhubaneswar is blessed with a river, natural drainage system, marshy land, and an irrigation canal apart from water bodies such as ponds and lakes. They are the veins of its ecosystem that…

The grief and misery apart, the pandemic has automatically solved some problems that had remained unresolved despite the world community striving hard for it - a paradigm shift in the…

This morning's sky reminded one of similar mornings of 1999 (super cyclone), 2013 (Phailin), 2014 (Hudhud), 2018 (Titli), 2019 (Fani), 2020 (Amphan). Odisha, often called India’s disaster…

While most cities of the country, including Bhubaneswar, are under Lockdown/curfew, these are just measures to buy time to fight the pandemic rather than a real solution. Having said that,…

Just when India was revelling for escaping the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic with limited damage (compared to Europe, the US and the UK), all hell broke loose with the second wave,…

Every day people all over the world celebrate their cultural heritage, simply by living their lives in a way that embodies who they are and where they came from. But one day every year is…

In 1948, Bhubaneswar became the modern capital of Odisha, the first planned capital city of Independent India. The plan was drafted with the principle that every woman in the city must be…