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Bhubaneswar: The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) defines fortification as "deliberately increasing the content of essential micronutrients in a food so as to improve the nutritional quality...

Cricket is not a high-intensity sport. In terms of sheer athleticism and testosterone-fuelled live action it lags contact sports such as football or boxing by a long way. You would...

My parents came from diverse socio-economic backgrounds. While my father was from a middle-class family having strong roots in village, my mother came from a higher economic echelon and had...

The Husband and I are facing a serious password crisis. Every time he logs in to his bank account for net banking he looks at me questioningly, “Do you remember...

One fine day nearly two decades ago, Lal Bihari, a happy-go-lucky, unambitious farmer in Uttar Pradesh discovers he is dead, officially. With an eye on his small patch of land,...

I get a knock on my door. It’s the cooking gas cylinder delivery boy. I receive the cylinder and pay him Rs 1,079. I feel the pinch as it is...

Maverick, crazy, unorthodox, idiosyncratic, nonconformist...Experts have dug into the dictionary to capture Rishabh Pant in a word but the perfect choice appears elusive. Subtler expressions such as graceful, elegant and...

Raja Reddy, an IFS officer of 1984 batch from Andhra Pradesh, was posted for on-the-job training (OJT) in Khordha division. He got down from train and proceeded straight to the...

FY 2022-2023 will see Odisha handling an outlay of Rs 2-lakh crore which hints at it being an outcome budget, at least in setting a norm, if not a whole...

Tunguru Bhola is possibly the most famous Odia at the moment. He is in the viral zone. His antics fetch millions of clicks on the social media. Videos on him...