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Rourkela: A 61-year-old man was arrested after a leopard was allegedly poisoned to death in Odisha's Sundargarh district, officials said Friday. The female leopard, aged about 4, died near Kusumdihi village in the Tamra range of the Bonai forest division after eating cattle meat, which...

Bhubaneswar/Malkangiri: The delegation of ministers, led by Odisha Deputy Chief Minister K.V. Singh Deo, Friday submitted its report on the ground situation in violence-hit Malkangiri district, where the recovery of a tribal woman's headless body had enraged local tribal residents, who subsequently set fire to...

Bhubaneswar: An intense cold wave swept several parts of Odisha as the state recorded the season's lowest temperature of 3.1 degrees Celsius at G Udayagiri, a hill station in Kandhamal district, the IMD said Friday. The chill has severely affected normal life as minimum temperature...

Baripada: Five notorious poachers have been arrested from Similipal National Park after forest officials used advanced scientific tools, including the Similipal Wildlife Intelligence Network, to track them down. The arrested men have been identified as Veerasingh Ho (33), Charan Ho (43), Chhale Ho (23), Sagar...

Jajpur: JSW Utkal Steel Ltd. (formerly JSW Steel Ltd.) received permission from the state Water Resources department in 2019 to lay a slurry pipeline transporting iron ore from Joda in Keonjhar district to its steel plant in Paradip. Recently, the company extended the pipeline route...

New Delhi: The Central government has approved over Rs 199 crore for developing tourism infrastructure in the Hirakud and Satkosia regions of Odisha, with Rs 131.92 crore already released to the state. Union Tourism Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat shared this in the Rajya Sabha Thursday,...

MANAS BISWAL, OP Angul: Protecting the environment begins at home, and avoiding the use of plastic in households is essential now, said Dharitri and OrissaPOST Chief Executive Adyasha Satpathy, while addressing an awareness programme organised by ‘Sathi Parivar’ at Brajamohan High School, Jarada, under Banarpal...

DIVYASHANTANU NATH, OP Angul: Wildlife plays an essential and independent role in maintaining ecological balance, said Dharitri and Orissa POST Editor Tathagata Satpathy Thursday. He was speaking as the chief guest at a programme on “Community Contribution to Forest and Wildlife Conservation and Rural Environmental...

Phulbani: Normal life in parts of Odisha was severely affected Thursday due to intense cold as the minimum temperature remained below 10 degrees Celsius in at least 15 places in 11 of the 30 districts, an official said. While the minimum temperature at hill station...

Malkangiri: Two Odisha ministers Thursday visited violence-hit Malkangiri district and reviewed the situation, while the administration has extended the suspension of internet services by another 12 hours. Deputy Chief Minister K V Singh Deo and MSME minister Gokulananda Mallick reached the district headquarters town of...