OB Special

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...

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...