OB Special

This week, on July 19, 2026, the Orissa High Court will bid farewell to Justice Krishna Shripad Dixit upon his superannuation. For lawyers across two states, the occasion carries a...

The opening remarks at UNESCO’s Transforming Education Summit +4 (TES+4) in Paris last Friday got off to a less-than-promising start. Nearly an hour behind schedule, delegates passed the time chatting...

New Delhi: Naveen Jindal Group is exploring multiple locations in at least nine states, including Odisha, to set up high-capacity nuclear projects. The group is looking to set up 18...

India’s agricultural economy is hitting a dangerous climate roadblock forcing us to confront uncomfortable questions about our national priorities. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) confirmed that the first month of...

India’s Rs 75,021-crore PM Surya Ghar: Muft Bijli Yojana is being aggressively marketed across the nation as a landmark triumph in decentralised energy democracy. Promising up to 300 units of...

Every quarter, governments celebrate rising GDP. Stock markets respond, investors applaud, and politicians claim success. Yet a simple question remains largely unanswered: Are people actually living better lives? Nearly a century...

In my school days, my parents, teachers, and society taught me to always walk on the left side of the road. Back then, I was barely aware of the term...

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...

This year, on Sabitri Brata, my teenage daughter asked me why I was even observing a festival which seemed regressive and unequal. Here was a ritual where a wife fasts and...