Simply put: Farmers hunger strike

Simply Put: Sambalpur’s iron-rich fields

World Rivers Day: Does a river exist for us only when it floods?

It’s important to spread river education in its totality, before dams and canals take over ‘rivers’ in the perception battle 

Iron ore sludge pond breaks in Sambalpur

Paddy and vegetable fields and poultry farms inundated with iron ore slurry after wall of a steel plant collapsed

After Talabira, tree-felling attempt in neighbouring Patrapalli village

According to a resident, the police attempted to chop trees in the village on December 11, but were thwarted by locals 

40,000 trees cut near Odisha’s Talabira village to make way for coal mine

Local residents, in charge of forest for half a century, not taken into confidence before tree felling

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

Rantal: A settlement’s journey from invisibility to identity

Displaced from Bihar in 1980, a group of 42 Munda families have collectively established the organic village in Odisha

Students of engineering university in Odisha’s Sambalpur wrongly diagnosed with COVID-19

COVID-19 restrictions put in place in and around the engineering university were lifted after all of them tested negative on March 2 

Mahanadi: Neither an election issue, nor a developmental one

The dying river is marred with pollution and irrigation issues and yet it hasn’t made it to the election agenda

Elephant crushed by train in Odisha’s Sambalpur

This is the 29th such death in Odisha in a decade  and the second death in Sambalpur district within a month