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Topic: Odisha

Land of milk and no money? Bread basket Punjab hits rock bottom in NITI Aayog Fiscal Health Index

Topper Odisha widens lead to score 73.1 out of 100; Haryana and Bihar among the few states to improve year-on-year.

To surrender or not? Rift that led Odisha’s top Maoist commander to murder deputy from Chhattisgarh

Police say Anwesh wanted to surrender under Odisha’s revised rehabilitation policy, leading to a difference of opinion with senior Maoist leaders that allegedly ended in his killing.

NTPC scopes 30 sites across states in fresh bid for nuclear expansion

The sites are spread across 5 to 6 states, including Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Odisha, the people said, asking not to be named as discussions aren’t final.

Odia Asmita is not enough for BJP to stay in power. Caste politics is catching up in Odisha

With the state now aligned with the national ruling party, the demand is shifting from ‘protection of culture’ to ‘proportion of power.’ And it is facing a peculiar reservation paradox.

Former Odisha MLA who sought ‘central role’ for Priyanka in Congress expelled from party

Moquim's letter to Sonia suggested central role for Priyanka, core roles for Pilot and Tharoor, as Congress' presence 'shrinking geographically, organisationally, and even emotionally'.

Secularism & right to propagate: Revisiting SC’s 1977 anti-conversion order after Justice Nariman remark

Former SC judge RF Nariman recently suggested top court revisit 1977 judgment in Reverend Stainislaus case which held that right to propagate does not include right to convert a person.

Fame to shame—Odisha civil services topper ‘caught taking Rs 15,000 bribe’

2019 topper Aswini Kumar Panda, posted as Tehsildar in Jajpur district, allegedly sought bribe & had his driver collect it from a man for giving approval for land mutation, conversion.

News of the day: 21 July, 2025

ThePrint’s round-up of the major news events from India.

Sexual harassment, suicide & gangrape—Odisha’s 1st BJP CM battles fallout from rising crime, ‘inaction’

Oppn, from ex-CM Naveen Patnaik to a weakened Congress, has seized the moment, protesting a spate of brutal crimes & alleged erosion of rule of law in CM Majhi's 1 yr in office.

Balasore student who self-immolated wanted to be a teacher. In death, she taught how to stand up

“No one bothered to ask what had pushed her to that point. She was struggling mentally, but the college refused to even listen to her," said Soumyashree Bisi’s friend Kashish.

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Gulf conflict pushes Dubai diamond traders to eye Surat for rough stone auctions. But there are hurdles

Industry leaders say India’s complicated customs process and GST levies are deterrents for traders to come to Surat for auctions.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.