OB Special

Today is an important day for us because it is an important day for democracy. It is the foundation day of the oldest democracy, a day we better know as...

Bhubaneswar: A controversy over new memberships has hit the Bhubaneswar Club, Odisha’s premier recreational facility for the elites, leading to suspension of access rights to 274 new inductees. This has...

The Odisha Society of Americas (OSA) organized a webinar on “Empowering Odisha through State-of-the-art Public Library System” as part of the 52nd OSA Annual Convention on July 2. OSA has...

Malkangiri: With a twin purpose of extending a source of livelihood and beautifying the town landscape with paintings depicting tribal lifestyle, the district administration has roped in artists to take...

A great middle class debate is going on about school education in Odisha at the moment. Many people have suddenly woken up to their government school roots since a girl...

Just as I was thinking of a subject for this week’s column, the ‘thekedars’ of this society that I live in came to my rescue. Actually, I am wondering if...

Bhubaneswar: Archaeologists in Odisha have discovered a fortified historic site at Durgadevi in Remuna tehsil of Balasore district. Traces of belongings found there are cultural deposits from Chalcolithic -- Bronze,...

Colombo: As Virat Kohli and his team are taking a break in England ahead of next month’s five-match Test series against the host country, a Shikhar Dhawan-led Indian side has...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government has allowed resumption of film shootings as part of the easing of restrictions during the ongoing lockdown against the second wave of COVID-19. The government has...

Berhampur: The royal palace in Paralakhemundi of Gajapati district, where the movement for a separate Odisha was conceptualised, faces an uncertain future with the royal family abandoning the mammoth structure...