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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...

Alarming Pollution Problems of Stone Quarries and Crushers

Columns Prof. Dr. P. K. Jena - October 12, 2018

There are many illegal stone quarrying and crushing units which operate in very unscientific manner causing a lot of harm to the workers as...

Three Supreme Court judgments with far reaching consequences

Columns Priya Ranjan Sahu - October 10, 2018

Justice Dipak Misra set a record of sorts by delivering judgments on a series of high profile cases as part of different benches headed...

Earth Has a Hidden Plastic Problem – Scientists Are Hunting It Down Trillions of...

Columns Dr. Chitta Ranjan Mishra - October 5, 2018

The movement of the science is so rapid; we’re going to know a ton more in five or 10 years. We will then have...

Growing number of gang rapes Haryana’s shame

Columns Priya Ranjan Sahu - September 21, 2018

Haryana is ashamed, when a class XII student committed suicide after eight men raped her, four men gang raped another teenager, a 23-year-old pregnant...