Odisha block residents to get MNREGA employment for 200 days

500 crore package launched to ensure timely, uninterrupted wage payment under MGNREGA and check migration of labour

COVID-19: 15 new cases in a day poses biggest challenge for Odisha

State government admits shortage of personal protective equipment

Bhubaneswar metro: Will it be an effective transport solution or become the state’s white elephant?

Smaller cities need a much more comprehensive strategy to make metro systems viable

Sizzling Odisha: 26 places hit 40°C+

Schools to remain shut from tomorrow

Is urbanising rural Odisha sustainable and resilient?

Infrastructure development is necessary and urbanisation is a choice, but not at the cost of sustainability of rural areas

Odisha’s BJD sounds poll bugle with rally on farm issues in Delhi

The rally will revolve around the agrarian distress, which emerged as the weakest point for the BJP in recent Assembly elections

Mahanadi: Neither an election issue, nor a developmental one

The dying river is marred with pollution and irrigation issues and yet it hasn’t made it to the election agenda

After CM’s warning, Odisha Police goes after COVID-19 rules violators, collects fines

Some 1,374 COVID-19 cases have been reported in the last 24 hours in Odisha

PEETHA: Will Naveen Patnaik’s deliciously named pre-poll sop work?

Also the name of a traditional Odia sweet, the ‘Peoples Empowerment – Enabling Transparency and Accountability’ scheme was …

Odisha home to 30 tigers, 8 cubs, shows state census; 10 more than last NTCA count

National census report of 2022 put the tiger population at 20 in Odisha

Should district mineral foundations be with state mining departments?

Recent plan to move Odisha DMF from the state planning and convergence department to the mines department raises several questions

Cyclone Fani: Artisans to fishermen, trail of devastation has left none

Most traditional workers in Odisha have no means to sustain themselves after the storm pummelled the state

Verdict 2024: Odisha’s women may have helped tilt scales in state against BJD, say experts

Women have long been a BJD vote bank; but excessive campaigning by BJP in addition to poll promises may have influenced female voters to go saffron

Environment in elections: Dhinkia ‘acid test’ for ruling BJD as betel farmers unhappy with JSW steel plant land acquisition

They accuse CM Naveen Patnaik-led government and police of colluding with the company and destroying the area’s ecological treasure 

COVID-19: Odisha death rate least in world, claims Naveen

Odisha recorded 1,660 cases positive to SARS-CoV-2 and seven deaths as on May 28, 2020; active cases were at 766  

UN felicitates Odisha for its disaster management model during Phailin

State first in Southeast Asia to get a thumbs up by the international body

'Will fight POSCO till last breath'

Kin of anti-POSCO leader killed in bomb explosion in Gobindapur village resolves to fight on

Not being kept in loop: Odisha’s sarpanches on CM’s power decentralisation move

Several sarpanches who were given powers of district collectors alleged their administrative or financial roles were not spelt out clearly 

Share iron ore mining profits with communities: Patnaik

Writes a letter to PM

Phailin: crop loss assessed at Rs 2,300 crore

Families in severely affected villages to get rations and cash assistance

Relief and rehabilitation is next big challenge

Cyclone Phailin leaves behind a trail of destruction; people complain they have received no relief supply

Corruption taint mattered little

People vote in politicians accused in illegal mining activities in Karnataka, Odisha

COVID-19: Odisha becomes first state to extend lockdown

Approximately 3.1 million families receive food grains from 12,556 fair price shops

Heat wave claims over 600 lives

Odisha, Andhra request Centre to recognise heat wave as natural calamity

Indigenous instinct: How Sundargarh emerged as India’s cradle of hockey

Much before the government took initiative or sponsors came to support the sport, the tribals of the district have been busy playing tournaments …