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By Dr Debabrata Swain The elephant, Earth’s largest terrestrial mammal, is deeply woven into Odisha’s cultural, spiritual, and geopolitical history. Simple and serene with its magnificent proboscis, this gentle giant requires massive, unbroken forested terrains to forage, consuming hundreds of kilograms of foliage and grass...

Bhubaneswar: Bhubaneswar Development Authority (BDA), in coordination with the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC), has carried out a major demolition drive, demolishing a total of 330 transit houses with 45 toilets and bathrooms near Kanyashram under Chandrasekharpur Mouza as part of its ongoing efforts to clear...

Purushottampur(Ganjam): Farmers have alleged irregularities in the functioning of the Purushottampur Cooperative Society Ltd in Ganjam district, accusing its secretary, G Lokanath Achary, of allegedly favouring his family in the disbursal of agricultural loans while farmers were being denied due consideration. Farmers alleged that Achary...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha BJP has raised questions on the silence of BJD president Naveen Patnaik over the alleged police excess on agitating students in the Congress-backed JMM government in neighbouring Jharkhand. In a video message Tuesday, state BJP spokesperson Anil Biswal asked, "Why is Naveen Babu...

Anugola: The Anugola district Congress has called for a 12-hour shutdown Wednesday to press for permanent solutions to dust and noise pollution caused by coal transportation, road accidents, traffic congestion and health problems faced by residents. The shutdown will be observed from 6 am to...

Brahmapur: A court in Odisha's Ganjam district Tuesday sentenced a man to life imprisonment for killing his 28-year-old wife by setting her on fire around four years ago, a government lawyer said. Additional district judge Biswaranjan Behera pronounced the judgment on Suddam Hussein Khan, a...

Nayagada: Tension erupted at Bhapur Community Health Centre (CHC) in this district Tuesday following the death of an 18-year-old college student, with her family alleging that the girl died after being administered a wrong injection. The deceased, Santoshi Behera of Golapokhari village under Fatehgarh police...

Thuamul Rampur: A long-awaited connectivity project for residents of Indravati reservoir area in Kalahandi district has moved a step forward with the completion of a preliminary DGPS survey for a proposed 246-meter high-level bridge at Ghutrukhala Tuesday. The bridge, estimated to be part of a...

Bhubaneswar: At least three persons, including two women, died and five other were injured in incidents of lightning strikes in Odisha's Sundaragada and Mayurbhanj districts Tuesday, police said. While two women died in lightning strikes in Sundaragada's Talsara police station area, one man was killed...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Vigilance Department Tuesday arrested a former secretary of a cooperative society for allegedly misappropriating public funds amounting to Rs 21.28 lakh, officials said. During investigation, the department found that the accused collected loan repayment funds directly from various borrower members (loanees) of...