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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...

Rourkela: From a remote village named Lulkidihi-Bahamnibahal of Sundargarh district’s Balisankra block to being a double Olympian -- Deep Grace Ekka has indeed come a long way. “It’s a great...

Bhubaneswar: 'Heritage Village' Raghurajpur, about 10km from Puri, is again buzzing with activities. The deft hands are back to work, adding colours to the walls and doors of every house...

Though feared for her polemical assertions much later in life, with access to power, Nandini Satpathy (June 9, 1931- August 4, 2006) set in the discipline in public service. The...