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.
Signed between Manoj Kumar Pattnaik, Chief Executive Officer, Odisha Computer Application Centre (OCAC) and Dr Leni Chaudhari, Executive Director, University of Chicago Center in India, the scope of this programmatic partnership will involve researchers from the university providing data analysis and evaluation assistance to the Government of Odisha schemes and policies to benefit the state districts and blocks.
Acting on a petition filed by activist and lawyer Radhakanta Tripathy, the NHRC sought an Action Taken Report (ATR) from the Chief Secretary and the Keonjhar district Collector on the state of people in the mineral-rich Keonjhar district..
The annual bird census, undertaken in the brackish water lagoon yesterday, put the count to 10,93,049 migratory birds of 105 different species. There has been an increase of 56,829 birds this time. Last year, 10, 36, 220 birds of 107 species were sighted.
Doctors at SUM Ultimate Medicare (SUMUM) successfully treated a patient’s bleeding through the urinary tract by super selective angio-embolization of the prostatic artery.
The state government has been distributing 5 kg rice per person per month to the left-out eligible beneficiaries covered under the State scheme called ‘State Food Security Scheme at Re. 1 per kg since October 2018. Now it will be free of cost.
