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Hundreds of vehicles stranded due to massive landslide in Poonch district; BRO restores NH-144 after 5-hour haltThe BRO teams confirmed that after a 5-hour operation, the road was cleared and opened for general traffic, allowing the stranded vehicles ...
Meet Dhiman Chakma: IAS officer suspended in Rs 10 lakh bribery case, now reinstated by Odisha govtOdisha has reinstated 2021-batch IAS officer Dhiman Chakma. He was arrested in June 2025 for allegedly accepting a bribe. Chakma now serves...
Odisha: Heavy rain lashes Bhubaneshwar, IMD issues state-wide warningA severe thunderstorm hit Bhubaneshwar with heavy rain and strong winds. Although this brought relief from the summer heat but disrupted da...
3 states, 300 kms: Tigress Zeenat gives birth to 4 cubs after making an extraordinary journey. Her story is a reminder that, ‘sometimes, giving wildlife a second chance is all it takes.’Tigress Zeenat has given birth to four cubs at Similipal Tiger Reserve in Odisha. Zeenat was translocated from Tadoba National Park. Her jo...
‘Ramlal’ the elephant strolls into poll queue, adds colour to Bengal votingPolling in West Bengal's Jhargram saw an unusual interruption. A wandering elephant, Ramlal, briefly paused voting at Jitushol Primary Scho...
Vir Vikram Yadav appointed new Directorate General of Civil Aviation chiefVir Vikram Yadav is the new chief of DGCA. This appointment is part of a major reshuffle of senior bureaucrats. Twenty-five civil servants ...
Mamata Banerjee requests Odisha to rescue tiger entering BengalWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee requested Odisha to send a forest team to rescue a tiger that entered Bengal. The previous rescu...
Tiger from Maharashtra walked 2,000 km across four states to reach Odisha!This marks a historic moment for Odisha, as the state has previously reported tiger dispersals from neighboring Chhattisgarh, but this is t...
Odisha's forest cover increases by 537.44 sq km in two yearsOdisha's forest cover has increased by 537.44 square kilometre between 2019 and 2020 due to various initiatives under the Joint Forest Mana...
Panel of experts being sent to help Odisha govt manage forest fire: Environment ministerAnnouncing it on Twitter, Javadekar also said he met Union Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas Dharmendra Pradhan and other parliamentari...
Shivraj Singh Chouhan asks Naveen Patnaik to care 'Tigress Sundari'Quoting media reports, Chouhan pointed out that Sundari is not being treated as per the prescribed guidelines and experts from the state ha...
Royal Bengal Tigers spotted in three new locations in OdishaForest and environment minister, Bijayshree Routray said on Saturday that RBTs presence have been reported from Hemagiri forest in Sundarga...
Odisha's Bhitarkanika may be in world heritage site listOften described as nature's gift, Bhitarkanika is enriched with a variety of habitats and conditions not found anywhere else in the country.
Forest department asked for utilisation of corpus in 8 mineral-rich districtsThe direction was issued by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik last evening after reviewing the performance of the Forest and Environment Depart...
65 nesting sites of estuarine crocodiles spotted in OdishaAround 65 nesting sites of estuarine crocodiles have been spotted in Bhitarkanika National Park in Odisha's Kendrapara district and the num...
Live webcast of Olive Ridley sea turtle nesting in OdishaDRDO and Odisha's forest department will jointly live stream the annual event of the mass nesting of Olive Ridley turtles in Gahirmatha nes...
Berhampur University to hand over deer park to forest deptIn view of financial burden, Berhampur University in Odisha's Ganjam district has decided to handover the management of its deer park to th...
Odisha govt's drive to plant 12 crore treesOdisha government on Saturday set a target of planting more than 12 crore trees during 2014-15 following the loss of above 26 lakh trees in...
Solar fencing to prevent elephants being run over by trainsThe move comes after at least six elephants were crushed to death by an express train near Subalaya a place within the five km railway line...
Elephants' death: Railway claims it was informed about just after mishapRejecting Odisha government's claim that railway was alerted about movement of elephants near Subalaya in Ganjam district where six pachyde...