Nirmalya Behera

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Ravaged by Cyclone Fani, Puri is staring at Rs 4,000-crore loss
Rediff.com15 May 2019

With the green cover gone, the bald roads to Puri are now reigned by lorries laden with...

Why US FDA is cracking down on India's shrimp shipments
Rediff.com12 Feb 2019

US, the largest market for Indian shrimp exporters, is peeved over the use of banned...

Indo-US bilateral trade rises 119% since 2007
Rediff.com9 Oct 2018

In the imports bracket, India was the United States' 11th largest supplier of goods in...

Why students at this IIM are leaving
Rediff.com12 Sep 2018

Institute says Sambalpur University, where it has been housed since April, is refusing...

To protest low price farmers to distribute milk free of cost
Rediff.com30 May 2018

With increasing animal prices, labour and transportation charges, production cost has...

Shrimp exporters hit by fresh US sanctions
Rediff.com16 May 2018

India largely exports block frozen shrimp to Vietnam for reprocessing and forward...

In a first, Odisha govt awards land rights to urban slum dwellers
Rediff.com8 May 2018

As part of Slum Land Rights Act, the project will benefit a million people residing in...

An online platform that connects mom and child
Rediff.com18 Dec 2017

Mumbai-based BabyChakra is among the four start-ups Google has shortlisted from India...

Could this be the English guru for 250 million non-English speaking Indians?
Rediff.com21 Sep 2017

Enguru app's 40-hour programme teaches general spoken English & employability-focused...

Amit Shah plans 95-day Bharat yatra to spread BJP's word
Rediff.com16 Apr 2017

2,470 BJP workers from across the country would spend a year visiting polling booths,...

OMCs to invest Rs 90,000 cr on fuel upgrade by 2020
Rediff.com3 Apr 2017

There are about 23 oil refineries in India with a combined capacity of 230 million...

SHOCKING: In Odisha, only 3 of 500 hospitals are fire ready
Rediff.com19 Oct 2016

Recent statistics show that the situation is no different across the country with...

Nilekani's start-up Drishti offers affordable eye care
Rediff.com1 Aug 2016

Drishti, an affordable eye care chain has lit up the lives of scores of people in rural...

Dutee Chand: What a runner! What a life!
Rediff.com26 Jul 2016

Behind sprinter Dutee Chand's rise is a hidden journey filled with pain and hardship.

How Bhubaneswar will transform into a smart city
Rediff.com15 Jun 2016

IFC will act as a transaction advisor for the projects to be developed in the...

Back-to-back drought adds to the woes of farmers
Rediff.com25 Nov 2015

The well-irrigated states of Punjab, Haryana, Karnataka, western Uttar Pradesh and...

Rural distress: Madhya Pradesh faces the brunt of monsoon failure
Rediff.com24 Nov 2015

Most farmers depend on rainwater for farming.

Wipro again fails to meet deadline on Bhubaneswar unit, Govt peeved
Rediff.com18 May 2015

The Odisha govt is annoyed with Wipro's lackadaisical attitude.

Wipro slow on Odisha project, CM writes to Premji
Rediff.com5 Aug 2013

The pace of the progress has been very slow over the last eight years.

Inflation, poor monsoon hit consumption in E India
Rediff.com1 Aug 2012

Last year, Ashok Das, a farmer-cum-fisherman from the small industrial town of Rishra...