Opinion

Pritish Acharya Mahatma Gandhi was finally assassinated January 30, 1948; the assassin was Nathuram Godse. He was not alone. A group was with him; the leader was Vinayak Damodar Savarkar. While Savarkar justified any means for good ends, Gandhi insisted on good means for good...

Amar KJR Nayak The constitution of a nation is a body of fundamental principles and values according to which the nation state is governed. It is closely related to the life, thoughts and cherished values of the people over the years. It is an institution...

Dhanada Kanta Mishra The front page of ‘South China Morning Post’ at Hong Kong, in the first week of January, was chock-a-block with news of a strange new viral infection. Wuhan in China’s Hubei province had detected about 44 cases of the mystery infection and...

Kailash Satyarthi Every day, 152 million children perform hard labour, often in hazardous conditions. Bangladesh’s garment factories, which are staffed largely by women and, often, children, are a prime example. Between 2006 and 2012, more than 500 Bangladeshi garment workers died in factory fires. In...

Krushna Chandra Satapathy Despite the current economic slowdown nationally, Odisha remains a strong economy, just as it has remained over the years. Gross State Domestic Product is exhibiting promising growth, while revenue surplus has sustained over the past 15 years. Odisha has consistently maintained remarkable...

Nikunja Bihari Sahu Located at the mouth of the Ganges, where the river empties into the Bay of Bengal, the Sagar island attracts millions of Hindu pilgrims each January for the Ganga Sagar festival. This year, about 2 lakh pilgrims took bath in the sea...

Jayakrishna Sahu There was jubilation January 7 when the Tees Hazri Court of Delhi issued death warrants against the Nirbhaya-case convicts and fixed the time and date of their execution as 7 am, January 22. Parents of Nirbhaya, especially mother Asha Devi, felt the execution...

Santosh Kumar Mohapatra Odisha’s Finance Minister Niranjan Pujari is set to present his second state budget. It is a very difficult time for him to be helming the exercise, with the share of states from the divisible pool facing cuts. The Centre’s revenue, too, is...

Ganga Narayan Rath The Internet has become an inextricable part of life. The recent shutdown of the Internet in various parts of India has generated much debate. Most commentators have criticised the shutdown, pilloried the police and raised issues relating to its desirability and legality....

Bhagirathi Behera Mining is integral to social development. But the impact mining has on the environment needs to be mitigated. The majority of proposed mining projects involve the extraction of ore for metals such as copper, nickel, cobalt, gold, silver, lead, zinc, molybdenum and platinum....