In a quantum leap, Odisha has secured fourth place in the country, leaving behind big states like Maharashtra

As per NGT orders and rules, natural drains shouldn't be covered and concretised. Around natural or primary drains, a buffer zone of 50mt need to be ensured. Also, pillars or fencing have to  be undertaken...

The time is ripe to keep released criminals under surveillance and introduce the Beat Police System of Mumbai

Though rains are predicted tonight in districts of Puri, Khordha, including Bhubaneswar, Jagatsingpur, Kendrapada, Sundargarh, Balangir etc. But on Sept 30, Cuttack rainfall predicted at around 20mm/hr and in Bhubaneswar around 7mm/hr

The property plundered by dacoits totalled around Rs 119 crore. Moreover, with only a 50 per cent charge-sheeting rate, the recovery rate in the State also stood very low (around 28 per cent).

Though Agriculture saw a rise in employment in 2020, job losses were highest in the tertiary sector and it was followed by the manufacturing sector in Odisha. State 4th in unemployment rate in country

Including pending cases from previous years, the total cases under investigation under PCA stood at 1738. The State Vigilance could file charge sheets in only 153 cases. The charge sheeting rate is just around 9...

September dropped some big hints about how October is going to be in Odisha. All eyes are on the west Pacific ocean

The warning shot here is cyber crimes related to sexual exploitation had clocked a massive 75 per cent surge in the pandemic year in Odisha. Odisha police could file chargesheets in only 1 in every...

While flood fear looms large in Brahmani-Baitarani, Subarnarekha basins, the scenario is not rosy for Mahanadi, Rushikuliya and Bansadhara

The NSSO Report All India Debt and Investment Survey 2019 has disproved the rosy picture of Odisha's growing per capita income. The condition of labourer households seems very wretched in the State

Mirroring a 'dirty picture', the NCRB report 2020 counted Odisha as the second State in country, after West Bengal, that recorded steep rise in crimes against Women in pandemic year. Child rapes in State on...

A plan to re-work the in-sufficient drainage network in the State's Capital has been hanging fire since 2011-12.

Though Odisha witnessed large-scale urban flooding this September, the fact is 2011 Sept had been the wettest in State's history when one of the worst flood was recorded, thanks to omissions and commissions

Even as few places in the upper Mahanadi basin region in Odisha are predicted to record 9mm rainfall per hour on September 14, there is unlikely any emerging flood situation in the Mahanadi. Severe flood...

Overall, a glance at the models shows, during the next 48 hours, the pressure of the city region will rise to touch around 1002 mb. And the rainfall will gradually take a dip over the...

The dark underbelly of the higher education scenario in Odisha was put to glare by the CAG.

Public debt more than doubled to touch Rs 68,438cr in 2019-20 from Rs 33,757cr in 2015-16. And the total liabilities of the State also increased to over Rs 1.26 lakh cr from Rs 59,753 cr...

Neighbouring Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and West Bengal have increased the teaching faculty intake in last five-years, but Odisha saw a sharp fall in the faculty strength

As Odisha Assembly is in session, and when frames of Jagdev 's 'hooliganism' started doing the rounds, the BJD President very promptly suspended the Chilka MLA from the party with immediate effect. However, the one-line...