The recent rise in cases of rape and sexual violence against women has also put the focus back on death penalty. But is death penalty the solution to bring down crimes against women? While many believe that such horrific cases of crime deserves the severest...
Read moreBhubaneswar: Four years after the launch of AMRIT (Affordable Medicines and Reliable Implants for Treatment) Pharmacies scheme by the Health Ministry, the state has been able to add only two such pharmacies in the state which provide subsidized drugs for critical diseases. According to the...
Read moreBhubaneswar: The whole system of testing of food and beverage samples for adulteration, safety and misbranding in the state has been marred by the lack of adequate food safety laboratories which can prove cases of unsafe food items from the collected samples. Data received from...
Read morePuri: The police, Sunday, claimed to have arrested the fourth accused in the gangrape of a minor girl in the official quarters of a police constable in the city here, December 2. Bulu Barik, the fourth accused in the gangrape case, was on the run...
Read moreBhubaneswar: In a bid to eradicate hunger from the state, a non-profit organisation under its Hunger-free Odisha initiative inaugurated its second food bank at Ground Floor Hall of Ram Mandir, Bhubaneswar, on the occasion of 1st death anniversary of Pradosh Chandra Mishra. Minister of Tourism...
Read moreCuttack: A group of slum children from the Silver City here will be trained in the Indian Naval Watermanship Training Centre in Goa. The children will undergo advanced training on life saving techniques at the naval centre. They will help in rescue operations during natural...
Read moreCuttack: Ravenshaw University, one of the leading institutes of higher education in state, is going through acute shortage of teaching staff. The posts of at least 24 professors, 45 associate professors and 103 assistant professors are now lying vacant as the authorities concerned have not...
Read moreBhubaneswar: President Ram Nath Kovind here Sunday said students and teachers should be sensitive towards empowerment of the marginalised sections of society. Addressing the concluding ceremony of the platinum jubilee celebrations of the Utkal University, he said universities were great hubs of ideas, but not...
Read morePuri: With places like Puri, Konark, Chandrabhaga, Chilika etc experiencing heavy tourist footfall, the police have come up with a slew of measures for their safe visit and stay in the district. According to the information shared by superintendent of police Umashankar Dash, a ‘tourist...
Read moreBhubaneswar: A group of students belonging to Kendriya Vidyalaya (KV) - 3 in Mancheswar area of Bhubaneswar staged a protest Saturday night demanding action against school authorities after a Class XI girl student attempted to commit suicide Friday. The irate students have given 48 hours...
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There are several takeaways from the array of incidents (surrounding some sensational rape cases) that have taken place over the...
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Most policemen do not want to participate in encounters. This has resulted in India producing a category of men called...
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The more notable among reforms brought by the Modi sarkar since 2014 are evident in the way the government functions....
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After five consecutive cuts in interest rates, the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), headed...
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