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The Odisha government's decision to revise the English spellings of several place names has reopened an old but important debate: How should Indian languages be represented in the Roman script?...

In line with the much-publicised NEP 2020, Odisha’s schoolchildren are getting a world-class education in one subject the syllabus forgot to list: Creative Fact-Checking. With thousands of mistakes across textbooks,...

It is 4 am somewhere in rural Bihar. A 17-year-old girl — the first in her family to sit for NEET — has not slept. She has memorised cellular respiration...

To navigate an Indian street is to witness a profound, multi-layered behavioural crisis. On any given afternoon in Bhubaneswar, wrong-side driving, red-light jumping, and open hostility among commuters are regular...

Bhubaneswar: After much dithering, the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) has finally taken the Sujata Rout Karthikeyan plunge it was expected to take ever since the electoral debacle it suffered two...

Bhubaneswar: As Nuapada readies for the D-Day on Tuesday, much significance is being attached not just on the outcome but also its plausible impact on the internal dynamics of the...

Bhubaneswar: Governor Dr Hari Babu Kambhampati here on Friday expressed displeasure over inordinate delay by the Odisha government in framing of rules to the Panchayat (Extension to Scheduled Areas) (PESA)...

Bhubaneswar: Pushed to the wall after the BJD’s first choice Jay Dholakia joined the BJP ahead of Nuapada by-election, Naveen Patnaik has tried to pull a rabbit out of the...

Bhubaneswar: Still smarting from defeat in the 2024 twin elections, the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) walked the political tightrope with caution by abstaining from voting during Tuesday’s Vice President polls,...

Bhubaneswar: As senior IAS officer Manoj Ahuja readies to take over as the next Chief Secretary of Odisha from July 1, the expectations from him and the challenges he could...