The number of Irrawaddy dolphins, an endangered species inhabiting the Chilika lake in Odisha, has increased to 156 from 150 in 2019, according to a census report by the Chilika Development Authority....

Chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Saturday talked to the beneficiaries who were administered the first dose of the corona vaccine. Among the beneficiaries were a health worker from Capital Hospital, B...

The East Coast Railway (ECoR) on Thursday announced that it would run Puri-Jodhpur-Puri Special Train from Puri from January 20 and Puri-Ajmer-Puri Special Train from Puri from January 21. The Puri-J...

The Odisha transport department has slapped a Rs 1.13 lakh fine on a motorcycle rider in Rayagada for violations under the Motor Vehicles Act. The rider, 20-year-old Prakash Banjara, who hails from A...

State wildlife conservation officer Samyak Samantra told this newspaper: “During the 1996 tracking of Olive Ridleys we had come to know that these turtles are different from those living on the ...

The BJP and the BJD on Thursday traded charges over the murder of senior Odisha BJP leader Kulamani Baral and his associate Dibyasingh Baral.  Both were allegedly hacked to death last Saturday w...

Schools and colleges, which have been closed since March because of the corona pandemic, will reopen from January 8 and January 11, respectively. The universities will also reopen from January 11, acc...

The Biju Janata Dal (BJD) president and chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Saturday targeted the national parties for their failure to take steps for women empowerment and asserted that his party will f...

India’s largest hockey stadium will come up in the steel city of Rourkela in Sundergarh district, about 500km from here. The stadium will host the Men’s Hockey World Cup-2023 along with Ka...

The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has asked the Odisha government to recommend a probe by a central agency into the murder of five-year-old Pari from Nayagarh district. I...