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International Women's Day: How self-help group — and a phone — gave Kuntala new lease of life

Non-profit Trickle Up’s pilot project put smartphones in the hands of poor women and helped change their lives

Simply Put: 40,000 trees cut for coal mine

How do cyclones get their name?

The process of naming cyclones started when it became difficult for the authorities to alert people about the cyclones through longitude and …

Tribal women in Mayurbhanj earn a living making furniture, storage items from Sabai grass

Fighting poverty : How jackfruit chips come to save Odisha tribals' day

Tribals resort to distress sale in absence of marketing facilities; the state trains 1,000 tribal women to prepare and sell jackfruit chips

Cyclone Yaas to hit Odisha coast on May 26 morning

Around 400,000 people have been evacuated from the coastal districts of Kendrapara, Jagatsinghpur, Bhadrak and Balasore

40 buffaloes die of haemorrhagic septicaemia in Odisha’s Kendrapara

Locals blame officials for not acting on time, worried about livelihood

Simply Put: India’s forest guard

Kendu leaves: 29 Odisha villages win complete autonomy, but still a long way to go

Most villagers earned more than Rs 15,000 this year, over seven times their past earnings

Odisha orders 48-hour shutdown in 3 cities apprehending community spread of COVID-19

Decision after person in posh Bhubaneswar neighbourhood tests positive without any travel history

COVID-19 makes more than 2,000 migrants throng back to Balangir

District among those in Odisha that send out the most workers

Only 2 passengers aboard Odisha’s new Balangir-Bichhupali train: RTI

Balangir-Bichhupali track is part of Khurda-Balangir line and was inaugurated in January 2019

Sukapaika: Death of a river

How embankments have killed Odisha’s Sukapaika river that was the lifeline of over 0.5 million people  

Simply put: Farmers hunger strike

Simply put: Nature vs development

Fish being dried illegally with formalin in Odisha, govt promises action

Those drying fish illegally say they do it to cut costs; govt planning to provide chemical-free methods to dry fish

It is legal, yet harvesting bamboo out of reach for these communities

Though bamboo can now be legally harvested, local communities are protesting as they face administrative hurdles

The sheer folly of Indian GIs

States are competing to pile up Geographical Indication tags without studying the benefit to producers

Centre sends team to assess malnutrition deaths in Odisha

Ninteen infants have died due to malnutrition and related diseases in Jajpur district in the last six months

Simply Put: Sambalpur’s iron-rich fields

Won’t allow bauxite mining on Mali Hill: Agitators ransack meeting in Koraput village

The Mali Hill in Koraput is the source of several streams, home to medicinal trees and is an elephant corridor, protestors say

Kendu leaf trade: Stringent laws needed to keep children out

The news of children working at kendu leaf collection centres often trickle in during April-May every year. Children are mostly engaged in …

Leopard hide trade on the rise: 10 skins seized in Odisha in 10 days

All five accused arrested

Elephant electrocuted in Odisha: Third death in 34 days

As many as 732 elephants died between 2009 and 2019 in Odisha