At a recently held District Collectors' conference, Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi issued directions to stop illegal sand mining, which bears testimony to the fact that the state has been witnessing growth in sand theft.
State’s Food Supplies and Consumer Welfare Minister Krushna Chandra Patra, who met the Union Consumer Welfare, Public Food Distribution minister recently in New Delhi, also pressed for the release of Rs 8178.19 crore of pending paddy subsidy claims.
The arrested marine fishermen were natives of the Balasore and Mayurbhanj districts. The trawl and fishing implements used by them for sea voyage in prohibited marine sanctuary areas were seized. Later, they were remanded to judicial custody under relevant sections of the wildlife protection act, 1972, said officials.
Indian Railways regularly undertakes Disaster Management Exercises to reinforce emergency readiness across its divisions. These drills are designed to test emergency preparedness of railway staff, NDRF teams, and local agencies in accident-like situations.
With Odisha recording an all-time yearly high record of 94 elephant deaths in 2024-25 (till 18.3.2025), the state has acquired the dubious distinction of being the elephant graveyard of India.
This plant capacity is 400 LPM (liters per minute) of oxygen and it will cater to the 12 beds in the Intensive Care Unit in the hospital and other high dependence units from the Pediatrics Department, said Ranjan Nayak, COO & spokesperson of JSW.
The drug peddlers identified as Sheikh Mohammad Alli, Syed Imtiyaz and Ratiranjan Routray were nabbed near Razabazar under Jatni police station jurisdiction of Khordha district.
The real estate regulatory authority passed the order in response to a petition moved by the allottees of Kalyan Plaza Annex Housing Project and directed the Hi Tech Estates & Promoters Private Limited that “the builder can not shift the responsibility of maintenance to the flat owners unless the project is fully completed, flat owners society is formed, the common area is transferred to the society and production of valid occupancy and completion certificate.
It is pertinent to note here that ahead of the raging third wave of the pandemic, the State government had put in place 88 COVID-19 care facilities with 10,859 beds, including 3,075 Intensive Care Units (ICU) beds and 1,211 ventilator beds spread across 30 districts.
Last year, 3,49,694 female turtles had turned up at the Gahirmatha nesting ground to lay eggs from 9 March to 23 March.
