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Sunit’s father Surendranath Mohanty has also served in the IAF for 33 years. The retired Group Captain said, “I have flown the An-32 for five to six years. The over 40-year-old design has several structural defects and needs to be replaced…

It has been a fortnight after FANI and life is slowly inching towards normalcy. Broken electric poles, bent mobile towers, damaged asbestos houses and uprooted trees keep reminding the citizens of the catastrophic day. However, amidst this…

During the time of landfall, apart from two English news channels- CNN-News18 and NDTV- that were showing the process, no other channel (English or Hindi) had the slightest mention of the impending disaster. Due to connectivity issues,…

In its very essence, media is the fourth pillar of democracy. But this essence seems to be lost somewhere in Indian media’s crowd of flashing breaking news, red side panels, bold letters and screaming anchors. In the pursuit of sensation,…

She is silenced before her laughter can spread joy in the surroundings. She is silenced before she can call someone ‘Maa’ or ‘Bou’. She is silenced before she can squeal out her first cry. She could have been a loving daughter, a caring…

The daughter of a humble and diligent weaver in the nondescript Gopalpur village of Jajpur, Dutee Chand has made judicious use of the Rs 3 crore cash award announced for her after she clinched two silver medals in the prestigious Asian…

They are observant. They are powerful. They are everywhere. Koraput’s anti-Romeo squad led by Additional SP Sagarika Nath has taken the pledge to make roads safer for girls and women. The team might be lurking in the shadows in civilian…

A video posted on Twitter by one Abhijit Iyer Mitra, a close associate of former Kendrapara MP Baijayant Panda, shows a chopper flying over Puri Srimandir and Konark Sun Temple, both of which are restricted zones.

On September 5, Omprakash Mishra became the only teacher from Odisha among 45 teachers to win the national award for 2017 that was conferred by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi. However, Mishra believes that the national award is not his…

Braving the rains, traversing broken roads, dodging the traffic and navigating through the pain of walking bare-foot, Shiva devotees dressed in saffron clothing flock the grey roads of the State during July-August as a part of the annual…