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Bhubaneswar: Defending Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik for not attending his office at Lok Seva Bhawan or the state Assembly here, Biju Janata Dal spokesperson Pratap Keshari Deb said the…

In the 1980s it had become evident that bona fide requirements of communities in rural areas cannot be entirely met from natural forests and Social Forestry Projects were started in most…

Leaves were probably one of the earliest culinary tools. It was used to store and transfer food. Using them to then cook would have been the next step for our hunter-gatherer ancestors, who…

It's not easy to be a Bachchan scion. No choices for guessing that the reference here is Abhishek Bachchan, who turns 46 today. So, Happy Birthday Abhishek!To stand tall in the face of…

Bhubaneswar: World Cancer Day will be celebrated on February 4 with the aim to significantly reduce illness and death caused by the deadly disease.According to statistics, around 2.25…

Thirtieth of January is marked as Shaheed Divas, or Martyr's Day in India, the reason being that this was the day Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated.A child in the seventies and a youth in…

My friends consider me a wordsmith (I make no such claim). Even if I am one, I was left completely speechless (wordless, that is) at the beginning of the year itself. All I could feel was a…

Bhubaneswar: After a gap of several years, actor Rachana Banerjee will share the screen with Ollywood actor Anubhav Mohanty. But, it isn’t the big screen! The duo will come together for an…

Bhubaneswar: The mould of one of the greatest revolutionary leaders, Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, took shape during his formative years in Cuttack city when the seeds of nationalism were…

Bhubaneswar: It was a Kumbh Mela of artists taking a dip in the colours of eternity, merging and meandering through, creating positive vibrations, before emerging with splashes of patriotism…