Opinion

Kirti Ranjan Mallick If the ocean was an economy, it would be the seventh-largest in the world but ironically only 5 per cent of this huge water body has been explored. For today’s changing world, the oceans are defining features on our blue planet. Millions...

Sudha Devi Nayak It was in the eighteenth century that the British felt the want of a good dictionary to know their language in more detail. Dictionaries were there with lexicographers making tremendous efforts at corralling the entire language. One of the greatest literary figures...

Sanjib Kumar Karmee It is already one and a half years since the first COVID-19 case was reported in Wuhan, China. Wuhan is home to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) and the Wuhan Center for Disease Control. Both institutes are leaders in bat-coronaviruses research...

Dr Siba Sankar Sahu The theme for World Environment Day 2021 is “Ecosystem Restoration” and it has been declared as the “UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration”. There has never been a more urgent need to revive damaged ecosystems than now. The Convention on Biological Diversity...

Dr D.K. Giri India had finally shaken off its hesitation in joining others in demanding thorough investigation into the origin of the virus. This time the demand is direct, unlike last year when 62 countries moved a resolution in World Health Assembly, the apex organ...

Bertrand Piccard Our world is extraordinarily inefficient. We waste enormous quantities of energy, water, raw materials, and food. We even waste our waste and the precious resources it contains. We do so not necessarily because we lack ecological awareness, but rather because the society we...

Melvin Durai Within the next decade, India is projected to overtake China and have the largest population in the world. But China is not ready to give up the No. 1 spot without a fight. That’s why China’s ruling Communist Party made a big announcement...

Shivaji Sarkar The repeated natural disasters and Covid-19 lockdowns are taking a heavy toll on India’s economy and hit the informal sectors the most. The Central relief to three states, Gujarat, West Bengal and Odisha is `2,000 crore in addition to states also allocating part...

Prakash Kumar Sahoo The world will celebrate the 21st anniversary of World Milk Day on June 1, 2021. ‘World Milk Day’ was first launched in 2001 by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations to recognise the important contributions of the dairy...

Susanta Mishra Bhubaneswar, the capital of Odisha, is an emerging urban centre, and it finds its name among the world’s top-20 global smart city ranking. Its nearby city, Cuttack often known as the sister city of Bhubaneswar, was the British time capital. Cultural legacy of...