Odisha Train Accident: Over 1000 Injured, Nearly 290 Dead, Restoration Work Underway.

Odisha Train Accident: The all-safety commissioner will conduct an impartial investigation, according to Railway Minister Vaishnaw, who has ordered a thorough high-level investigation.

A passenger train derailed and collided with another on Friday night in Balasore, Odisha, leaving at l...

After securing $50 billion in investment in just two years, the government of Odisha attracts foreign direct investment from the UAE

The Government of Odisha in India is attracting Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in industries like metals and metal downstream, chemicals and petrochemicals, textiles and apparel, including technical textiles, food processing, seafood processing, ESDM, logistics, and clean energy on the back of t...

Chief Minister Patnaik appeals to UAE businessmen to invest in Odisha

Naveen Patnaik, the Chief Minister of the mineral-rich state of Odisha in eastern India, will hold an investors' meeting in Dubai on Wednesday. He encourages UAE business leaders to do so. The government of Odisha and the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry jointly organi...

HOME DELIVERY OF LIQUOR ALLOWED IN ODISHA

HIGHLIGHTS

• Home delivery of liquor has been allowed in Odisha.
• District collectors have still been authorized to take a final call on the matter after considering the situation prevailing in their respective areas.

The Odisha governm...

ODISHA'S BEHRAMPUR JOLTED BY AN EARTHQUAKE OF 3.8 MAGNITUDE

Highlights

• According to the National Center for Seismology, an earthquake of magnitude 3.8 on the Richter Scale struck 73km West South-West (WSW) of Behrampur at 7:30 am on Saturday

• People residing in the area felt tremors and ran out of their houses, fortunately...

ODISHA VILLAGE KIDS SERVED LIQUOR TO KEEP COVID-19 AT BAY

Highlights

• Around 12 children ageing between 10 and 12 were served liquor which is brewed from a tree

• This incident took place at a marriage ceremony in Pasranpalli village under Padia block

• After the video became viral, the excise department is ...

ODISHA COP ARRESTED FOR RAPING A 13-YEAR-OLD TRIBAL GIRL INSIDE POLICE STATION

Ananda Majhi, former inspector-in-charge (IIC) of Biramitrapur Police Station was arrested on Wednesday by the Odisha Crime Branch on the charge of allegedly raping a 13-year-old tribal girl inside the police station and forcibly trying to terminate her pregnancy in the district of Sundargarh.

ADANI POWER SET TO TAKE OVER 49 PERCENT STAKE IN ODISHA POWER FOR $135 MILLION

Highlights

• The state government of Odisha will hold remaining 51 percent stake in OPGC

• OPGC's thermal power plant is located at Banharpalli in Jharsuguda district of Odisha

• Adani Group said it will continue its partnership with the AES in ord...

SUPREME COURT ALLOWS JAGANNATH PURI RATH YATRA WITHOUT PUBLIC PARTICIPATION

Highlights

• SC asked the state government of Odisha to coordinate with the Central Government to hold the Rath Yatra

• The apex court stated that the decision now lies with the Jagannath Temple Management Trust and Odisha government

• The Rath Yatra i...

Odisha using data to fix India's complex agriculture departments

The herculean task of India's agricultural policymakers is not only to provide time-sensitive responses to the needs of farmers, but also to account for staff, topography, weather, and logistical variations within each state. However, the growing demands for modernizing agriculture have focus...