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Mohan Charan Majhi, 52, is all set to take oath as the fifteenth Chief Minister of Orissa and the first from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). After twenty-four long years, the coastal state has got a new leader as the people had voted in support...

Both bad and good news are coming from Europe. The bad news first-Right leaning parties have made significant gains in the European Parliament election, the results of which poured in on 9 June night. The good news is Europe has not yet been taken over...

A petition has been filed in the Supreme Court, urging the Centre and the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) to provide a comprehensive report on the stock market plunge that occurred on 4 June, the day the results of the general elections were...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi assumed charge for the third consecutive time in a row but not equalling the record of India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, as many would like us to believe. Nehru’s Congress could form the government on its own in all the...

The Prime Minister spoke to the NDA allies in Central Hall just before his swearing-in. His message was that he would remain Prime Minister for another ten years (he did not say how he knew this) but to be fair to him that was mentioned...

I n a major shake-up, right in the middle of a busy, busy election, the Central government announced key appointments at the joint secretary level, signalling a strategic shift in leadership. This bureaucratic overhaul included the empanelment of 26 IAS officers from the 1995 to...

People of India have spoken and given a fractured mandate. It does not simply mean that there is no clear winner. Voters across the country have sent out a loud and clear message that they cannot trust any single leader or party to run the...

India has been reeling under a bout of unsparing heatwave that has claimed dozens of lives, especially in the eastern states of Orissa and Bihar, while extremely high temperatures have shattered previous records at several places across the country. The heat-related deaths in Orissa have...

A groundbreaking study by researchers at the University of Edinburgh has revealed that over 300 million children worldwide fall victim to online sexual exploitation and abuse each year. It means about one in eight children globally is being targeted by unscrupulous operators who use the...

Projecting oneself as a political martyr for being dragged into legal cases is a trick that top politicians the world over often play. In some cases, it pays rich dividends while in others it does not. However, when former US President Donald Trump plays the...