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Five people recently lost their lives upon entering an under-construction septic pit at Durgi in Rayagada. One person barely made it and was undergoing treatment at a hospital. All of them had inhaled some poisonous gas that had built up in the closed confines of...

Odisha must draw lessons from its glorious past to remove the tag, “poor state”, and move forward to compete with developing states. Socio-economic progress of the state hinges on the prosperity of its residents, which is primarily dependent on financial stability and economic freedom. A...

There is little to choose between the incumbent government and its predecessor. If UPA-II is accused of hiding its activities behind a veil of silence, NDA-II is taking cover behind empty rhetoric to hide its true intentions. The Reserve Bank of India in its recent...

Union Minister of State for Finance and Shipping Pon Radhakrishnan has said that those opposing various government projects are terrorists, a prominent daily of Chennai reported recently. The minister, during a conversation with journalists at the Chennai Port Trust's guest house, refused to use any...

The highfalutin objective behind the overnight scrapping of Rs 500 and Rs 1000 bank notes November 8, 2016 was meant to tighten the screws on circulation of black money. The government tom-tommed the idea as a sure shot measure to purge the economy of the...

India has come out with a policy that lays down restrictions on the operation of drones. It requires operators of these remotely piloted aircraft to not only pay a fee to obtain necessary licences but to also register online to be issued with a Unique...

God has forsaken His ‘own country’ – for a while at least. Non-stop rain and massive floods played havoc with life in Kerala for a week and more, leaving a trail of destruction and disaster. Over 300 lives have been lost, lakhs of people have...

The government wants WhatsApp to tighten its checks on fake news spread via messages exchanged by users. The social media messaging company, though, has expressed reservations about doing so, citing that it has encrypted messages end-to-end. However, media reports suggest that WhatsApp can still manage...

There is controversy over whether or not India should accept foreign aid during a disaster. There is even confusion about what the official policy is and it is an important enough issue to be examined so let’s have a look at it. The Kerala government...

Greece has finally emerged from nine years of crisis, severe austerity, political turmoil and what is supposed to be the last of three bailout programmes the nation required. It was the largest bailout in history, which amounted to 288 billion euros ($330 billion) and the...