Two retired bureaucrats — IAS and former commissioner of Bhubaneswar Municipality Corporation (BMC) Aparajita Sarangi (BJP) and retired IPS officer and former Mumbai Police Commissioner Arup Mohan Patnaik (BJD) — along with Janardan Pati, the CPI (M) candidate supported by Indian National Congress (INC) were among the 13, mostly fresh, faces in the MP elections in Bhubaneswar. The city voted on April 23rd to elect both MLAs for the Odisha Vidhan Sabha and MPs to the 17th Lok Sabha.
Stories by Basudev Mahapatra, a journalist from the eastern India, on Environment, Polity and Sustainability.
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April 15, 2019
As summer arrives, Urban Odisha gets scared about water
With a projected population nearing 9.40 lakhs, as per India Population 2019, Bhubaneswar has the reputation of being the hottest city of the country. With the monsoon trend delaying by almost one month, the worry for the urban dwellers of the state is the possible water scarcity they have to face soon as they have been facing for many years
April 10, 2019
Living in a hate culture: Hatred conquers India’s civic space
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A march in London against mob lynching culture of India.
Copyright: South Asia Solidarity Group (southasiasolidarity.org)
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April 06, 2019
Social audit empowers Odisha’s rural poor

April 05, 2019
Mahanadi needs rejuvenation plans to remain a live river system
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Mahanadi River at Mundali barrage near Cuttack city, Odisha
Photograph: Basudev Mahapatra
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At the centre of the dispute, since 2016, between Odisha and Chhattisgarh over sharing of water, River Mahandi is getting overstressed and its basin ecosystem degrading day by day
Mahanadi is the sixth largest river of India. It originates from a pool, 6 KM from Farsiya village of Dhamtari district, in the State of Chhattisgarh, and flows about 851 KM east through Odisha to reach the Bay of Bengal near Paradip in Jagatsinghpur district.
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