Burns wrote these lines in the autumn of 1791, following the debacle which had surrounded the Earl of Buchan’s proposed celebration of the Scottish poet James Thomson. See: Address to the Shade ...

Burns composed these lines in 1787 after a visit to the Court of Session in order to hear the case of Campbell v. Montgomerie. Captain James Montgomerie and Mrs Maxwell Campbell had become lovers ...

Election fever grips Odisha as PM Modi and CM Patnaik engage in a fierce verbal duel over governance issues and cultural ...

Nigeria was faced with what Yoruba call Egbinrin ote. When afflictions come in multiple, they become a plague. A plague is almost synonymous with Yoruba’s “Egbinrin ote.” Egbinrin ...

"In Sikkim government schools, across four state government languages, we initiated this Extempore Speech Competition ...

Bhubaneswar: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday dared Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik to tell the name of 30 ...

PM Modi criticizes Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik's inability to name districts without paper, vows to make Odisha number one state ...

Chandrachur Sen, a student of Cooch Behar Rambhola High School, has topped in Madhyamik Pariksha by securing 693 marks in ...

The intangibles of leadership are as potent and profound as the corporeal manifestations of governance. A people must not ...

During his 24-year-old stint as the CM, Patnaik was rarely seen delivering extempore speeches. “Odisha is rich in resources ...

His extempore dialogue interspersed with "doncha know" and "isn't that so." is witty and engaging. His gruff, gravelly voice, not unlike that of Huphrey Bogart, conveys a tone of ironic detachment ...

Vadodara businessman Bharat Desai's 'Bharatar', the electronic sitar, revolutionizes music with features like tonal quality ...