Earlier today, the Sixth State Finance Commission called on the Chief Minister and sought his valuable suggestions for empowering the local bodies of the State.
With the Crocodile Conservation Programme set to observe its 50th anniversary on Tuesday, Odisha, the only state to house all the three species of crocodiles, finds pride of place in implementing the most successful conservation project of saltwater crocodiles.
Odisha’s sea fishing hubs bounced back to life on Sunday with the resumption of sea-fishing voyage after the withdrawal of two-month long breeding season fishing prohibition.
Senior BJD leader and former minister Pramila Mallick alleged that incidents of rape, kidnapping, murder, and sexual assault involving women are frequently making headlines in newspapers and electronic media.
An improvised explosive device (IED) blast claimed the life of a central paramilitary personnel during an anti-Naxal search operation, cops said.
Wildlife officials have arrested a poacher and have recovered 29 dead migratory birds from his possession near Chilika Lake in Odisha, forest officials said on Monday.
Two women cooks of a government-run primary school were killed after being run over by a DMU train in Odisha’s Ganjam district on Sunday morning, police said.
‘Shuttle by Dalmia Bharat’, a High-Performance Centre (HPC) dedicated to promoting excellence in badminton, was inaugurated recently at the Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar.
The elephant depredation occurred on Saturday night in Munda Sahi village as a herd of elephants pulled down a mud-walled house and later tossed a 12-year-old boy and a three-year-old baby girl in the air. Later they trampled them to death, said officials.
Police have registered cases against as many as 65 ineligible who reaped the benefit of old age pension social security scheme by way of forging documents in support of date of birth in Odisha’s Kendrapara district.
