Orissa villagers protect forest, reap benefits

Born at 44

Odisha village gets pattas after nearly half a century. Land reform programmes get jumpstart

Elephant traffic

Phailin affects tourism in Odisha

Many villages near tourist sites in the state are dependent on tourism

Olive Ridley turtles return to nest at Odisha sanctuary after two years

DRDO switches off lights at the missile test range nearby to help draw female turtles back to the beach

Anti-POSCO protests gather steam

How people weathered Phailin storm

Bitter lessons from 1999 cyclone and a prepared community helped reduce the impact of the night-long cyclonic storm that raged across coastal …

Eye on the storm

Cyclone Phailin has not taken many lives but has left behind a trail of destruction that severely cripples people’s livelihood. What did it …

A clean bonanza

A water-starved village in southern Odisha revives its waterbodies to achieve total sanitation, puts an end to migration

Pronking in Ganjam

How blackbuck have managed to survive and thrive in this Odisha district is a conservation success story

Odisha registers biggest COVID-19 spike, mostly migrants from Surat

34 migrants who had returned from Surat, tested positive, 24 of them from Ganjam

COVID:19: More than 50 cases in a day rock Odisha

The spike in the number of positive cases is primarily due to migrants returning from Gujarat

Not being kept in loop: Odisha’s sarpanches on CM’s power decentralisation move

Several sarpanches who were given powers of district collectors alleged their administrative or financial roles were not spelt out clearly 

Cyclone Amphan: Tidal flooding, heavy winds pound coastal Odisha

Gale uproots trees, electric poles; saline embankments cave in 

Man sacrificed in Odisha to ‘prevent COVID-19’

Crime committed by priest in a temple in Cuttack district

Marine turtles tagged in Odisha after nearly two decades

The forest department plans to tag 30,000 turtles in Odisha this year during the nesting season

Odisha starts evicting illegal prawn gherries in Chilika

Around 349 hectares cleaned on first day; drive to continue for a few more days

Over 1,700 trees to be axed for widening NH-59 in Odisha

The felling of several old trees has already been started in Ratanpur

Odisha saw spike in king cobra sightings in human habitations since October 2019

Forest fires, human activity in their natural habitats and lack of prey could be possible reasons for straying

Odisha’s first case of harlequin ichthyosis reported in Berhampur

Mutations in the ABCA 12 gene are stated to cause harlequin ichthyosis

COVID-19 negative report a must for weddings in Odisha’s Ganjam

The directive comes days after at least two people died of COVID-19 within days of their wedding

Odisha’s blackbucks double in 6 years, reveals census

Improvement of habitats, protection given by locals and forest staff some reasons behind increase in Odisha’s blackbuck numbers

Odisha’s forest department rolls out conservation plan for new gecko species discovered in Ganjam

The species was first spotted within the premises of a temple at Humma in Ganjam district in 2014

‘Sewage treatment plant near Rushikulya will spell doom for Olive Ridleys’

The construction of the proposed plant will also violate Coastal Regulation Zone norms

Child trafficking in Odisha continues unabated: 20 teenagers rescued

The children, mostly girls, were rescued from a railway station