Keeping to its commitment to speed up the pace of implementation of new investment proposals, Odisha’s Single Window Clearance Authority vetted projects with investments totaling around Rs 14,000 crore. The Single Window approved projects of around Rs 3,000 crore, in…
In 2014, when Ashok Kumar Das took charge as vice chancellor of Utkal University in Bhubaneswar, he was returning home in more ways than one. A native of the city, he had graduated in physics from Utkal four decades earlier.…
Odisha is a state which has often not found itself on the national radar, and when it has, it has been for reasons they cannot be proud about. The last time this resource-rich state hit the national headlines was when…
Researchers in climate science at the IIT Bhubaneswar, are studying coastal inundation for developing a Land-Ocean-Atmospheric Modelling System to make prediction in case of extreme weather events, Prof U C Mohanty, Professor of Earth, Ocean and Climate Sciences at IIT,…
Former hockey captain Dilip Tirkey is organising the world’s largest hockey tournament, with 1,458 teams from Odisha, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand at 32 venues. When did you conceive the idea of this tournament? Talks started six-seven months ago. We organised a…
Odisha’s Sasmita Malik was chosen woman footballer of the year. She will get R 2 lakh and a trophy. Malik, 27, is a midfielder who won the national championship with Railways and was part of the national team that won…
To ease the mounting traffic congestion on the busy Raj Bhavan- Nandankanan square road, the state government plans an elevated corridor (fly over) over the 14-km route in the city. The 14-km stretch that connects some of the posh localities…
Ekamra Kshetra, as the Heritage District was known in the past, will soon have 521 heritage signage to go in sync , which are presently dotted with normal signage and are often found as a gross mismatch to the city’s unique…
The Bhubaneswar Smart City Limited (BSCL) has roped in a Gurgaon-based private firm to revamp the city’s traffic management. The move is the first pan-city development project under the Smart City Mission, The IT-enabled traffic system called Adaptive Traffic Signal…
A tableau depicting the popular Dol Jatra or Holi festival in the state has been approved for the Republic Day parade. Artists Gajendra Kumar Sahoo, Chhatrapati Biswal, Baladev Maharatha and Pradyumna Kumar Dash have designed the tableau. A team of…