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Dr Sourav Panigrahi has been on COVID-19 duty for more than a year now. Despite dealing with extreme pressure constantly, working sleepless nights and being at risk all the time,...

Malkangiri: Ganja cultivation thrives in almost every village tucked away in dense forests of Odisha's Malkangiri district, about 630 km from Bhubaneswar and over 10 km from neighbouring Andhra Pradesh....

“A Pandemic has Overrun the World And all of us Taken hostages There is stillness Of death and disease In the air Up against an unseen enemy”   Little did...

Bhubaneswar: It is not often that a professor turns into a farmer after occupying high positions in the academic world. But then there are exceptions. And one such exception was...

Bhubaneswar: Sakya Tripathy, a biomedical engineer and a native of Cuttack city, had 15 volunteers, including high school students, come over to his place last Saturday to sanitise sleep apnea...

Chi Chi. That’s what doubled as a remark at the sight of Govinda and is also incidentally his nickname. Back in the 1980s and 1990s the hoi polloi loved to...

Bhubaneswar: The creation of 'Maa', the creator herself, snowballed into a major controversy in Odisha on Tuesday. Here we are talking about a Sambalpuri bandha saree, which grabbed the headlines...

Is journalism a respectable profession anymore? The previous column -- What After Pimp & Tout... -- raised this concern. Some journalist friends have accused one of generalising an aberration. The...

It is heartening to see people all over the world, India, societies, communities, and colonies doing yoga. Yoga centres and ashrams have sprouted everywhere in the past few years. In...

By this time we have already gone through two lockdowns but it's never too late to write on the issue of anger management in such situations. Am I writing in...