OB Special

August 12 is celebrated every year as the National Librarians Day to commemorate the birthday of S R Ranganathan, considered the father of library science in India. This former Professor...

During the Personality Test for selection to the India Forest Service (IFS), one of the members on the panel asked me to name 10 trees. I started blurting out Mango,...

An idyllic, enjoyable, safe and cherished childhood spent amidst nature, friends and siblings is a blessing. And for those of us who have had the good fortune of spending our...

All of us I am sure are part of some social media platform and are connected with your near and dear ones. One of the groups may be of your...

Long before Marvel came up with the idea of putting interesting snippets of the next movie in between the post-movie credits, there were many who would watch the scrolling list...

India’s 121-year wait for an Olympic medal in athletics ended on August 7, 2021, when Neeraj Chopra won the men’s javelin event on the penultimate day of the Tokyo Olympics....

I have not been watching events at the Tokyo Olympics on TV but closely enough to know who has won and who lost. Of course, when India is involved, my...

Languishing on the sidelines for four decades, Indian hockey  turned a new leaf in the Tokyo Olympics. Though the team failed to qualify for the final of the men’s championship...

Rourkela: While the central government's decision on the second AIIMS in Sundargarh is still awaited, initiation of the process for establishing a medical college by the Odisha government on the...

Hirakud Dam, one of India’s 'modern temples', came up across the Mahanadi river in undivided Sambalpur district in the 1950s. The dam ushered in a boom in agriculture, especially paddy...