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Bulbul damages crops, houses, electricity and water connections in Odisha

Though no death has been reported in the state, damage to property has been immense

Fall Armyworm controlled in Odisha

Timely intervention and sustained awareness programmes by state agriculture dept prevented crop loss    

Cyclone Bulbul may skip Odisha coast, head for Bangladesh

The chances of the cyclone hitting Odisha coast are remote, as per the latest bulletin of the India Meteorological Department

Farmers on hunger strike in Sambalpur due to non-payment of crop insurance

Insurance claims were to be paid nine months ago but insurer Reliance General Insurance Company did not accept the government report on crop loss

Swachh Bharat Mission: How model villages in Odisha quit ODF

Every household now has an extra toilet, due to SBM. Yet people are forced to defecate in the open because of acute water scarcity  …

Odisha begins process to extract oil from grounded ship in Chilika

The Malaysian ship has been lying grounded in the lake since August 7

Floods ravage Odisha, kill eight

Several districts are waterlogged and no access to clean drinking water is a major issue

Odisha village still reels under wrath of Cyclone Fani

Around 2 lakh people depend on the Chilika Lake for their livelihood, which is also home to 261 species of fish, 28 species of prawns and 34 …

This Odisha tribe grows 20 crop varieties without jeopardising biodiversity

The Bonda tribe practices a unique form of shifting cultivation that enables the growth of many crop varieties while ensuring that the …

Odisha’s climate refugees: Last man standing at Satabhaya

Prafulla Lenka, a 47-year-old resident of Odisha’s Satabhaya village, is tenaciously holding on even as his village has almost disappeared …

Urbanisation, changing cropping patterns contribute to temperature rise: Study

Shift from kharif to rabi has led to warming of up to 30 per cent in many regions, says a researcher from IIT Bhubaneswar

Cyclone Fani damages Odisha’s seaside Balukhanda Sanctuary

The deer that fled the cyclone into areas inland have begun to return

Cyclone Fani to hit Odisha coast tomorrow afternoon

People in nine districts are being evacuated today

Fani to be second severe April cyclone to make landfall in India in 118 years

April storms are rare and are usually extremely severe; the last such storm, Cyclone Nargis, devastated Myanmar in 2008

एक अनोखी मैरिज किट से थमा बाल विवाह का चलन

माता की चुनरी से शादी का लहंगा और लोगों से इकट्ठा किए गए सामान से बनाई गई है यह मैरिज किट  

Elephant kills five in Odisha

The victims were asleep on their verandahs when the tusker trampled them

Odisha food commission stresses on FRA to beat hunger

Panel chief writes to all collectors to implement Forest Rights Act properly

Long road ahead: Odisha’s DMF funds to improve livelihood

The state has amended its DMF Rules and is also investing in projects to improve the lives of its mining-affected people; whether DMF lives up to …

'Women should be self-reliant to make a big difference in society'

Down To Earth talks to Pramila Bisoi, an SHG leader chosen to contest Aska Lok Sabha seat in Odisha

For the survivors of 1999’s Super Cyclone in Odisha, polls mean nothing

None of the political parties in the state have provided them with amenities ranging from sources of livelihood to cyclone shelters to …

2 killed, 50 injured in clash at Vedanta’s refinery in Lanjigarh

The deaths occurred after security men severely beat displaced tribals demanding jobs and education from Vedanta

Mass nesting of Olive Ridleys starts in Odisha’s Gahirmatha

The natural phenomenon will last till March 8, 2019

Odisha forest officials baffled by three leopard deaths in less than a month

Fragmentation of forests by humans causes leopards to stray into settlements where they fall prey to poachers: experts

Leopard dies after getting caught in poachers’ trap in Odisha

The iron trap laid to catch a wild boar dismembered the three-year-old big cat’s left leg and injured him severely before killing him