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How do you face post-Covid sluggishness? During pandemic, it was really tough to keep ourselves safe and simultaneously take good care of our employees’ families. The business is yet to get back to normalcy. We had an adequate stock of vehicles but people were unable...

How’s the demand for tractors in Odisha? About 70 per cent of the population of Odisha, which is primarily an agrarian economy, earns its livelihood through agriculture and allied activities. Modern equipment like tractors has replaced traditional farming methods involving draught animals, thanks to technological...

What are the major problems the automobile industry is facing now? All automobile manufacturers are currently facing a shortage of semiconductors. There has been a sudden hike in vehicle prices due to hikes in associated prices and fees at various stages like registration, tax, and...

How was the journey from studying chemical engineering to running a chemical products business? Generally, youths prefer to get a good government job that will offer them modest income and job security when they complete higher education. But when I finished my engineering course, I...

Bhubaneswar: Odia actor Pintu Nanda, who was undergoing treatment for liver-related ailments at Yashoda Hospitals in Hyderabad, died late Wednesday night. He was 47. A pall of gloom descended on the Odia film fraternity following Nanda’s demise. Earlier in the day, actor Sritam Das took...

Bhubaneswar: The opposition BJP members in the Odisha Assembly Wednesday created a ruckus in the house in protest against the "police excesses" on the BJP youth wing workers during a protest rally over minister Naba Das' murder case here. The BJP youth wing activists Tuesday...

Bhubaneswar: As part of its '5T' initiative, the Odisha government has decided to introduce an automated driving testing system (ADTS) in the state for testing the driving skill of the aspirants before issuing driving license (DL). The state government Wednesday signed an MoU with Akshara...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha has a very strong ecosystem for entrepreneurs to start their journey on any scale, be it medium or mega scale, CII State Council Chairman Sashi Sekhar Mohanty said. Speaking at a conference on ‘Odisha: A land of opportunities for MSMEs, Entrepreneurs, IT and...

Bhubaneswar: Entry ticket to any museum in Odisha will not be more than Rs 10, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik said Wednesday. Patnaik also directed not to collect any entry fee from students, artisans and weavers. The direction was given to make the museums more popular...

Bhubaneswar: Plus II board examinations conducted by Council of Higher Secondary Education (CHSE) started across Odisha today. On the first day, students of Science stream appeared for the Modern Indian Language (MIL) subject paper. The exam began at 10 AM in examination centres spread across...