Odisha

Shankar Prasad Tripathy of Jeypore town in Koraput district was enjoying his Sunday afternoon siesta when a giant cobra tried to slither into his house. read more

The children aged between 2 and 5 months had died between October 13 and November 8. The villagers attributed the deaths to some ‘unknown disease’. read more

The CDMO, however, ruled out Japanese Encephalitis or Acute Encephalitis Syndrome that resulted in the death of 103 children in the district three years ago. read more

The cyclone with wind speed of up to 125 km\/hour left a trail of destruction with homes and crops damaged in the nine districts of southern Bengal and coastal areas of Odisha, affecting around four lakh people in the two states. read more

No major damage was reported in camps in southeast Bangladesh where hundreds of thousands of refugees from neighbouring Myanmar are living. read more

The cyclone hit land around 8.30pm between Sagar Island and Frazerganj in West Bengal. read more

Bulbul is likely to hit the Sunderban delta along the India-Bangladesh border on Saturday night with a wind speed of up to 135 km an hour, said India Meteorological Department (IMD) officials. The cyclone will then lose some of its strength and become... read more

The Krushak Assistant for Livelihood and Income Augmentation (KALIA) was created by the Odisha government in January this year to help such farmers ride out farm distress. read more

If crops are harvested by human labour, which is what is still widely prevalent in poorer states such as these, there is no crop residue left to be disposed of. read more

Odisha has been derived from Prakrit word ‘Odda Visaya’ or ‘Odra Bibhasa’. The state is dotted with ancient exquisite temples and historic monuments. It is endowed with virgin beaches, serpentine rivers, mighty waterfalls & forest-clad blue hills of... read more

Cyclone Bulbul was unlikely to make a landfall in Odisha but will still trigger heavy to very-heavy rainfall in Kendrapara, Jagatsinghpur, Balasore and Bhadrak districts, starting Saturday. read more

Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik lauded doctors for their services at the government-run SCB Medical College and Hospital and said that state-of-the-art and the 3,000-bed integrated hospital will be created with the latest medical facilities. read more

A bench headed by Justice Arun Mishra said “considering the overall situation and the facts, we direct the State Government to depute full time Chief Administrator, not by way of additional charge forthwith”. read more

Biju Janata Dal MP Pinaki Misra said Patnaik decided to dismantle the samadhi to give a boost to the ongoing beautification drive in Puri. read more

OSSSC had invited online applications for the recruitment of 1746 Junior Clerk\/ Junior Assistant under general and special recruitment drive for SC\/ST of different departments of Government of Odisha in December 2018. read more