A survey by NGO Tata Trusts in 30 gram panchayats of Bolangir and Nuapada last year found that around 38,000-odd people from 11,000 families unable to find work had migrated to neighbouring states. read more

The boy used to earn his livelihood by displaying the snake in public. read more

Cyclone Fani left 64 people dead and 12 seriously injured. read more

The schemes surveyed by the CAG audit report were launched by the Integrated Tribal Development Agencies (ITDAs), nodal bodies that execute tribal welfare schemes of the Centre and State, between Financial Year (FT) 2013-14 and FT 2017-2018. read more

Daily-wage labourer Kandra Soren in Kuchei village under Kuliana police station was not allowed to cremate his wife’s body after she died in a local government hospital on August 14. Parbati Soren, also daily wager, was diagnosed with jaundice. read more

Officials in Bargarh have asked all educational institutions in the district to remain closed on Wednesday in view of heavy rainfall and flood threat. read more

So far, 400,000 individual and 24,000 community forest rights certificates have been distributed in the state while according recognition to 342,000 hectares of land in individual claims and 950,000 hectares of land in community claims, the statement... read more

Villagers in many districts of Odisha are disturbed by wild elephants that create havoc by destroying crops and houses. read more

Manoj Kumar Das took the snake to a local veterinary hospital only to find its gate locked. read more

Director of Bhubaneswar Meterological Centre, HR Biswas said the cyclonic circulation over Bay of Bengal would convert into a low pressure in the next 24 hours leading to heavy to very heavy rainfall warning in the districts of north coastal Odisha. read more

The Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Bill, 2019, criminalised the extra-judicial practice of talaq-e-biddat and Muslim men divorcing their wives under the practice either in person or through e-mail, SMS or social media could be jailed... read more

Das and other teachers have to spend entire days in the class rooms, as the cyclone razed their common room too. Then there’s the added danger of children falling into the village pond, located next to the school, since the boundary wall, too, was knocked... read more

About 100 days after cyclone Fani ripped through the Odisha coast killing 64 people and affecting over 16.5 million people in 14 of the state’s 30 districts, people are still trying to pick up the pieces of their lives. read more

The ship carrying cargo from Malaysia had unloaded its shipment in Bangladesh and was on its way to the Vishakhapatnam port to pick up a new cargo when its machines malfunctioned. read more

Rescue operations to help those stranded due to severe floods in Maharashtra and Karnataka have been hampered due to delayed administrative response and lack of coordination among neighbouring states. read more