Shaktimaan and moral universe of humans
The fatal attack on the police horse reminds us to condemn all exploitation of animals. It is because humans often exclude animals from their moral universe that they're able to justify their enslavement or slaughter One hopes that the efforts to bring the killers of Shaktimaan to justice will not peter...
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A GPS club membership
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Ticking youth-bulge bomb
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Tata Steel succumbing to Chinese dumping in UK!
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It's not just a plant, it's Welsh's lifeline
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Dragon fire singes US too
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Ramesh Jena's aide Jitu injured in encounter
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Pvt school defies Govt closure notice
30 April 2016 | PNS
Mashal Yatra evokes huge response across State
Pressing for implementation of the Odisha Official language Act, 1954 for using Odia in all official works, the Bhasa Suraksha Sammilani on Madhu Jayanti held a Mashal Yatra all over the State. The Yatra was a huge success as people from various walks of life joined, said Sammilani president and Rajya...
Young singers enthral audience despite congenital disorders
Sheer determination and lots of perseverance will certainly turn the adversities into achievements. This is perhaps turning out to be true for 10-year-old Keonjhar boy Premranjan Moharana and a 12-year-old Bhubaneswar girl Subhashree Swain. Born with double deformity of cleft lip and cleft palate, Premranjan and Subhashree are now not only...
Rotavirus claims 40% diarrhoea deaths of Indian kids
As a doctor and researcher, I’ve seen that rotavirus is the most common cause of deadly dehydrating diarrhoea and infected infants and young children suffer a lot. It is extremely contagious and strikes nearly every child when they are young. Hence, preventing it must be priority. Babies and young children can...
Illegal structures near rly workshop razed
A joint eviction team consisting of officials from the BDA and the BMC on Friday demolished unauthorised constructions on the Government land at Gadakana near the railway workshop here under the Mancheswar PS. During the eviction drive, a total of 17 under-construction houses and 3,000 ft stone boundary wall were demolished. One...
40% posts in 3 Govt med colleges vacant
Around 40 per cent of sanctioned teaching and nonteaching posts in three Government-run medical colleges taken together are now lying vacant. This was revealed from information furnished in the Assembly by Health and Family Welfare Minister Atanu Sabyasachi Nayak in response to a question of BJP MlA Dilip Ray on Friday. The...
924 die of kidney failure; 1,484 in AIDS
As many 924 persons died in kidney-related diseases and 153 died of different kinds of cancer in the State in 2014, informed Health and Family Welfare Minister Atanu Sabyasachi Nayak in the State Assembly in response to a question of BJP MlA Dilip Ray on Friday. While 8,023 persons from across...
Subroto Bagchi to head Skill Dev Authority
The State Government has appointed noted IT entrepreneur Subroto Bagchi as the Odisha Skill Development Authority (OSDA) Chairman. Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik informed the Assembly on Friday that Bagchi would be given the rank of a Cabinet Minister. Bagchi, cofounder of Mindtree, would assume office on May 1. He would report to...
