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Lives saved, livelihoods lost Odisha’s real challenge begins after the storm Sushanta Mahapatra When Cyclone Montha struck the eastern coast on October 28, 2025, it repeated a grim pattern familiar to Odisha and its neighbours—flattening fields, flooding villages, and sending thousands into shelters. Making landfall …
Gaza oscillates between calm and thunderous bomb blasts (We thankfully acknowledge the contribution of The Hindu for this story.) A Hamas official called the October 7 attack a ‘historic response’ to Israel’s bid to ‘eradicate the Palestinian cause’; he also said group was working to …
India’s foray into passenger plane manufacturing.. India has taken a decisive step to enter this field, where only a handful of players exist, as of now. HAL (Hindustan Aeronautics Limited), a wholly-owned government undertaking, has signed an agreement with Russia’s UAC to produce SJ100 passenger …
Kathmandu Para 1.. Vikram Seth has a pronounced wanderlust that has taken him to Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal. His uncle …
China’s success in indigenous passenger aircraft manufacturing falters due to geo-political turmoil China has made impressive strides towards producing its own passenger jet that could make it a potential competitor to Airbus and Boeing in the next decade. Its state-owned company COMAC has been able …
With ominous funk, Jamaica braces for the approaching Melissa Hurricane Melissa is going to be the deadliest storm in Jamaica’s recorded history of natural disasters. Now, meteorologists say that since 1851, a storm of such ferocity has never happened in the island. Melissa’s fury is …
A Legend of Northland by Phoebe Cary Stanza 1.. Away, away in the Northland, Where the hours of the day are few, And the nights are so long in winter That they cannot sleep them through; Explanation .. The story is set in a …
No Men are Foreign Have you ever thought of some people as strange, or other countries as ‘foreign’? We have many ways of thinking of other people as different from ‘us’, as ‘them.’ ‘They’ may belong to a different country, or speak a different language. …
On Killing a Tree Stanza.. 1 .. It takes much time to kill a tree, Not a simple jab of the knife Will do it. It has grown Slowly consuming the earth, …