Columns

Zaira Wasim should be left alone and allowed to do what she wants

Columns Priya Ranjan Sahu - July 11, 2019

The vitriolic attack on Zaira Wasim is totally uncalled for. She is treated as regressive, when she is well versed in the Quran. If...

The government must address two big problems: Doctors’ paucity and malnutrition in children

Columns Priya Ranjan Sahu - June 26, 2019

According to the National Health Profile’s 2018 report, there is one allopathic doctor for 11,082 patients in the country, though the WHO has recommended...

Polluted Environment and Global Warming are the Destroyers of all Living Beings...

Columns Prof. Dr. P. K. Jena - June 5, 2019

“The Good Earth”, when was first inhabited by various living beings and at a much later date by the human beings, used to be...

BJP’s loss in five states may change political equations in Odisha

Columns Priya Ranjan Sahu - December 22, 2018

The Bharatiya Janata Party was voted out of power in the three major states of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh. The voters with their...

Paradip Port joins 100 million club, down the memory lane, needs to be honoured

Columns Captain Dhirendra Kumar Mohanty - December 3, 2018

Biju Babu called for the map, a scale, and pencil. To everyone’s surprise he placed the scale in the map connecting Paradip and Daitary...

Will Indian media rise to occasion like American media?

Columns Priya Ranjan Sahu - November 25, 2018

In the US, after Trump administration cancelled Acosta’s pass, an unfazed CNN moved the court against the decision. Other media groups, including its arch...

Tall men do not need tall statues to be remembered by people

Columns Priya Ranjan Sahu - November 5, 2018

The money spent in constructing the Statue of Unity might have gone to fund “two new Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) campuses, five Indian...

Nobel Prize for Medicine Goes to Cancer Immune Therapy Pioneers

Columns Dr. Chitta Ranjan Mishra - October 12, 2018

Two men are recognized for basic research that unleashed the immune system against cancer, becoming a new pillar of therapy Immunologists James P. Allison and...