It was a regular Tuesday morning in Odisha, but for R S Gopalan, the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), it was a day filled with purpose and a touch of urgency. He sat before his computer, a grid of faces appearing on his screen – the Nodal Officers, Deputy Collectors (Elections), and District Information and Public Relations Officers (DIPROs) from across various districts. The air, even through the virtual medium, crackled with a shared responsibility. The reason for this assembly? The upcoming Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, a crucial exercise set to begin on May 30th, and the looming…

You know how sometimes you’re scrolling through your feed, or chatting with someone, and you come across something about climate change that just feels… off? Maybe it’s a statistic that sounds too good to be true, an argument that twists the facts, or a claim that just doesn’t sit right with everything you’ve heard from trusted sources. In today’s digital world, where information (and misinformation) spreads like wildfire, it’s getting harder and harder to tell fact from fiction, especially when it comes to a super important and often super confusing topic like climate change. That’s exactly why the Sault Climate…