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Cuttack: Chief Minister Mohan Majhi has declared Indonesia as the official partner country for Bali Jatra 2026, which is set to take place from November 26 to December 1 on...

Brahmapur: A significant thaw between Brahmapur MP Pradeep Kumar Panigrahi and Gopalpur MLA Bibhuti Bhusan Jena, coupled with the return of former legislator Bikram Panda to active politics, has added...

There are partnerships in Indian music that seem inevitable in retrospect. Pt Shivkumar Sharma and Pt Hariprasad Chaurasia, however, did not begin as the iconic film-composing duo the country would...

Yesterday, I took a friend, Pradyumna, to donate blood for a relative of mine. At the blood collection centre, he was asked whether he had donated blood in the previous...

In 1893, an Indian monk travelled to Chicago to speak about a civilisation and its faith to a world that knew little about either. At the Parliament of the World's...

My son could not go to his tuition today. It is not a particularly dramatic event. No examination was missed, no emergency was involved and, presumably, he will make up...

I write not as a detached commentator but as an alumnus of the National Law School, one of many who owe to that institution whatever we understand of the law,...

As India celebrates her 80th Independence Day, I find myself looking back, not only at the journey of my country, but also at my own. I was born in August...

Long before she was remembered solely as the voice of generations, Lata Mangeshkar quietly explored another side of music—as a composer of Marathi film songs. For millions of listeners, Lata...

Gen Z’s arrival on the public stage is sudden only to those who chose not to see them coming. After years of being written off as mobile addicts, ill-mannered, pampered,...