Cleopatra’s calendar
It is entirely possible that the impetus for the Western calender, that is now in universal use, came from Cleopatra of Egypt rather than Julius Caesar A new Gregorian calendar, amid cheers and hurrahs, will go up on our walls on January 1, 2019. From essentially being a Roman calendar, it...
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A man-made disaster
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Sunshine year for sports
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In fear of Mohajir militancy
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Stars are no limit with a mega drive
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A gap can be bridged only together
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44K more people to get BKKY cards from Jan 1
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Ex-Factories Dir, BJD workers join BJP
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All unmanned level crossings closed
To save human lives from train accidents at unmanned level-crossings (UMLCs), the East Coast Railway (ECoR) has eliminated all the UMLCs from its jurisdiction before October, much before the end of year 2018. The Ministry of Railways, which had set a target to eliminate all the UMLCs gates by 2020, then...
In brief
Pradhan reviews ECoR projects Bhubaneswar: Union Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas and Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Dharmendra Pradhan reviewed the ongoing projects of the East Coast Railway (ECoR) at the Rail Sadan here on Sunday with ECoR Additional General Manager Sudhir Kumar and Principal Heads of the railway. Additional...
Landmarks that make personal laws more benevolent
The quest for gender equality and attaining socioeconomic equilibrium through the realm of personal laws has historically been the prime cause of ambient conflicts between the constituents of the most progressive and the regressive orders of society. Recently, we have experienced a lot of hue and cry relating to Triple...
Bombs hurled at Khordha bizman’s house
Unidentified miscreants hurled bombs at the house of a businessman at Gurujang of the district on Saturday night. However, the businessman Prakash Routray and his family escaped unhurt. Sources said four motorbike-borne miscreants hurled three bombs at Routray’s house and fled the spot. As Routray is also actively involved in politics,...
BJD Govt trying to avoid loan waiver: Pradhan
Opposition parties BJP and Congress on Sunday criticised the Krushak Assistance for Livelihood and Income Augmentation (KALIA) scheme of the BJD Government, saying it has been launched keeping an eye on the 2019 general elections. Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said the State Government is trying to avoid issues such as price...
Dharmendra opens 100 Ujjwala napkin units
PUnion Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Sunday inaugurated the Ujjwala Sanitary Napkins manufacturing and distribution units as a CSR initiative of the Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs) at 100 common service centres (CSCs) across the State. “New India is not possible without a new Odisha. And a new Odisha...
Lecturers to begin stir from January 7
Expressing deep concern over the “lackadaisical” attitude of the State Government towards college employees, the All Odisha Non-Government Aided and Unaided College (+2 and +3) Teaching and Non-Teaching Employees Association on Sunday threatened to begin indefinite cease-work agitation on January 7 next. “After holding a Ministerial-level meeting on July 20 this...
