The Rights of the Girl Child in India
(Theory and Practices) 
By Krupasindhu Nayak
The Constitution of India offers all citizens, including children, certain basic Fundamental Rights – the right to life and liberty, the right to equality, right to freedom of...

By Manas Kumar Biswal; The State Govt. of Odisha has come out with plans to provide 24 hour water supply to a household for Re. 1/-. The scheme is to be introduced in August 15th and will target 10 Lakh families in the first phase. Prior to this the Odisha Government has given cl...

By Pradeep Baisakh

It is a village in Odisha which seems like the back of beyond. Here the children are made to work to add to the family income and parents are not too fund of sending them to schools. Yet, there are girls such as Namsi and Gurubari who just cannot do wit...

Report by Jyotiraj Patra, New Delhi: Search operations are still on in the eighth day of the boat tragedy in the mighty river of Brahmaputra in Dhubri district of Assam. Bodies of 38 victims have so far been recovered and official estimates suggest that around 350 passengers were...

Report by Rashmi R Parida and Kamala Kanta Dash; New Delhi: Biju Janata Dal Lok Sabha MP Baijyant 'Jay' Panda says a coordinated policy approach is the need of the hour to deal with the Maoist menace. In the backdrop of recent instances of Maoist abductions, the state and the cen...

By Devasis Sarangi

Always a great personal admirer of “The. Perfectionist” - Aamir Khan, like any other die-hard fan, I was thrilled to hear about his silver screen debut for which he has tirelessly worked even on his birthday and taken a fight with his spouse Kiran Rao t...

By Mrinal Chatterjee
Indian cinema will celebrate its 100 years in a few months from now. Dhundiraj Govind Phalke (popularly known as Dadasaheb Phalke) made the first Indian feature film Raja Harishchandra in 1913. Though another feature film titled Pundalik on a Marathi sai...

By Ratikanta Panda
The current Naxalite crisis and the solution to it are reminding me of something dreadful. Odisha Govt is following the same path what the then NDA regime did in order to free hundreds of innocent Indian citizens. It was sinister then and it is sinister no...

By Manas Kumar Biswal

The time of year has come when thirst will swell in tandem with mercury. The fresh elected Panchayat representatives have a critical situation ahead as they shoulder the vital responsibility of managing rural drinking water supply. What is more impor...

By Sanjib Kumar Karmee
On 2008 I joined various e-groups to participate in the discussions about Odisha and western Odisha. On that year April first I received various e-mails protesting the name of Utkala Divasa. The common complain was that the present Odisha is an amalgam...

By Kedar Nath Bishoyi
Empowering women is Per-requesting for creating a good nation , when women are empowered, Society with stability is assured .Empowenement of women is essential as their though and Value system lead to the development of a good family , good society and ...

By Dr. Mrinal Chatterjee

"I fear the newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets."
- Napoleon Bonaparte

Newspapers (or, Press) have been tolerated, respected and feared by governments, rulers, kings and governing powers across the world for its power to influence and...

By Sandeep Sahu: On February 24, this columnist received a press release from an International NGO working for tribes the world over, forwarded by the Delhi office for verification. Under the rather sensational headline of “Crackdown on sacred ritual as Vedanta mine appeal approa...