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Cuttack: Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu on Sunday asked media to shun the tendency to sensationalise and present facts dispassionately without mixing news and views. He said that media must remain honest and truthful and act with great restraint and responsibility. Speaking at the centennial celebrations of ‘the Samaja’, a leading Odia daily, “Media has […]
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Bhubaneswar: Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu on Sunday said that poetry is one of the finest expressions of human emotion and can serve as a powerful catalyst that could hasten the process of social transformation. “Poetry has the capability to change attitudes, mindset and social norms more than anything else. This apart, poetry can serve […]
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Cuttack: Odisha, considered as one of the best wildlife spots in the country, is no longer a safe home. Wildlife populations especially elephants, pangolins and turtles suffers high mortality rates. While most species are dying because of forest encroachment, tigers are severely affected due to escalation in poaching. For Odisha’s fast dwindling wildlife, life continues […]
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Puri: A team of top National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) on Thursday visited Puri and Konark and held discussion with different stakeholders, including Puri Collector Balwant Singh, Hotel Association president to host the second Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) disaster management exercise. To host the second BIMSTEC disaster management […]
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New Delhi: Former Finance Minister and senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley passed away on Saturday afternoon. He was undergoing treatment at AIIMS here, where he was admitted on August 9 after he complained of breathlessness and restlessness. Since then he was on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) and intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP) support, which are used […]
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Keonjhar (Odisha): A Day of Death Mourning Cover of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee was released by senior BJP leader Murli Manohar Sharma here on the occasion of the first death anniversary of the BJP leader. The cover was issued on the day of Vajpayee’s death on Friday and posted at Bhubaneswar on the […]
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Bhubaneswar: At least 1,497 elephants have died in Odisha since 1990 due to various reasons, most of them being unnatural deaths. “About 1,497 elephant deaths have been recorded in the state since 1990 till 2019. It is shocking that at least 718 elephant deaths have been recorded in the last nine years and five months […]
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Anil Dhir In the aftermath of the Jammu and Kashmir action by the Centre, the internet and the newspapers are agog with the story of Biju Babu having done the first landing during the 27th October 1947 invasion of Kashmir, and how he was instrumental in the Maharaja signing the Instrument of Accession. All […]
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New Delhi/Bhubaneswar: The Biju Janata Dal (BJD) on Monday supported the resolution moved in Parliament to scrap Article 370 of the Constitution, which grants special status to Jammu and Kashmir. Participating in the debate, BJD Floor Leader in the Rajya Sabha said BJD supported the resolution on Article 370. “In real sense today, Jammu & […]
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Bhubaneswar/New Delhi: Mrutyunjay Mohapatra, a renowned scientist and cyclone warning specialist from Odisha, took over as the Director General of India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Thursday. He was appointed as the IMD chief by the Central Government last month. Mohapatra (54) is also a permanent representative of India with the WMO and a member of […]
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