COVID-19: Odisha’s Subarnapur sets example by treating stranded migrants with dignity

The district administration, along with non-profits is helping provide food and essentials to migrants from other districts and states

40% of Odisha to be under lockdown for a week

Five districts and eight cities of the state will be under lockdown between March 22 and 27, 2020

Cyclone Sitrang: 7 Odisha districts on alert, evacuation efforts intensified

The cyclone is expected to make landfall on Odisha coast October 23-24

Amphan will bring saline water 25 km inland, cause large scale inundation: IMD

A storm surge will cause large-scale flooding and bring saline water in agricultural fields and people’s homes

Ready for Remal, say Odisha officials; rains in state could play spoilsport during campaigning for last polling phase

Rains due to Remal to bring respite from heat, help farmers prepare land for Kharif season

Deficient rainfall affects paddy, triggers drought fears in Odisha

As many as 19 districts have recorded large deficits of rainfall in August

Decapitated body of mugger crocodile found in Satkosia Gorge Sanctuary

Forest officers suspect the reptile was hacked by fishers when it got stuck their nets

Eggs from rescued pythons artificially hatched in Odisha

Hatchlings emerged from 27 of the total 30 eggs preserved in a hatchery

Over a million paddy bags damaged in the open in Odisha due to rain, hailstorm

Most of the market yards had temporary sheds while several of them had permanent sheds

Cyclone Yaas: Fishing vessels return to shore as Odisha ramps up preparation

Special cyclone shelters are being set up for evacuues who test positive for COVID-19

Exempt COVID-19 vaccines from GST: Naveen

Odisha CM also seeks for states share of cess, surcharges that Centre collects 

Cyclone Yaas: Acres of standing crop destroyed in Odisha’s ‘vegetable bowl’

Farmers fear further losses if rainwater is not flushed out from the fields

75 years of people’s power: Odisha’s Denkanal, Balasore use urban-rural convergence to treat faecal sludge

This process is more economical and less cumbersome

Child participation: Adolescent leadership should extend beyond schools to recognise children as political citizens

There should be action to make child participation robust & sustained institutional process  

Migratory birds arrive in Odisha’s Chilika before winter; is climate change to blame?

Early onset of winter in their native habitats could have prompted the birds to fly & descend in Chilika this early

Two years of Dhinkia violence: Villagers observe ‘Black Day’ in Bhubaneswar

Thirty people from Dhinkia sustained injuries after police baton-charged agitators trying to protect their betel vineyards from acquisition for …

Saltie census 2023: 1,793 estuarine crocodiles including 20 whitish ones counted in Bhitarkanika

Last year, 1,784 of the reptiles had been sighted

Odisha tops forest fire counts in the country for a week

5,291 forest fires recorded between February 22 and March 1, 2021

Who to blame for haemorrhagic septicemia in elephants? Odisha suspends a livestock inspector

Environmentalists slam state, flag collapse of system

Elephant shot, tusks hacked off in Odisha’s Dhenkanal forest division

Poachers armed with guns drive away forest guards

Amphan to severely affect Odisha's Balasore, Bhadrak: Officials

Both districts are on the north Odisha coast and border West Bengal

Create a million person days under MGNREGS: Patnaik to officers

He also asked them to ensure food security for migrant workers returning to the state

Odisha woman with COVID-19 symptoms dies under treatment of village quack

The woman had returned recently from Kolkata to Bhitarkanika National Park

Stranded Odisha workers across India send SOS for food

Workers from Odisha are contacting anyone who can help them in a number of states

COVID-19: Strict measures can’t prevent Odisha’s 4th case

Had a travel history to Dubai, contacts being tracked, said officials