In a renewed crackdown on illegal immigration, the Odisha Police on Monday detained 18 suspected Bangladeshi nationals from various villages in the coastal Kendrapara district.
The minor boy faced the teachers' wrath for creating disturbance in the classroom. They subjected him to such a mode of corporal punishment to instil discipline in him.
The body of a woman, who reportedly had gone missing after being dragged away by a crocodile in the Brahmani River while she was washing utensils, recovered from the river on Tuesday morning.
The festival was organized by Kalpana Foundation. On the second day of the festival, poets recited poems in Bhitarkanika National Park in a boat.
Rituals associated with the Holi festival of the royal family had begun with the hymning of devotional songs and spontaneous dance to the tune of drums.
The number of saltwater crocodiles, the species which are not found in any other river system in Odisha, as per the latest census, in Bhitarkanika wildlife sanctuary stood is estimated to be 1742 as per the latest census.
Homeless Khirod Jena (58), a landless daily wage earner in Raghudeipur village of Kendrapara district, has been living in the 7 feet x 6 feet Swachh Bharat toilet along with his wife and two daughters
Elections to the Patkura assembly constituency are due in the coming months
Human casualty was minimal, because of the elaborate disaster mitigation drills and focus on evacuation, and wind velocity was less than what it was in 1999, but the destruction in terms of tree cover, electricity poles and lines, telephone towers and houses matched
“The buying of additional essential commodities has become an essential part of the disaster preparedness on the part of people in the cyclone-prone districts,” said a report from Kendrapara.
