Residents of Podampeta, a predominantly fisher folk village, near the Rushikulya mouth in Ganjam district are engaged in protecting Olive Ridley sea turtles, who are climbing the beach for mass nesting. The villagers consider arrival of the sea creature as…
If you remember Bhubaneswar had notched up a rare first in India when it hosted the country’s first ‘The Street Store’, the world’s first rent-free, premises-free and pop-up clothing store where the homeless choose whatever they like without having to…
Power supply lines in the twin cities of Bhubaneswar and Cuttack will be underground to ensure safety, better look and disaster resilience. To begin with, only power lines along seven major roads in the two cities will be included in the…
The Global Odisha Conference invites entries for its “Travelogues about Odisha Sites” competition. A travelogue entry should have original pictures of locations in Odisha and text about them. In addition the travelogue entry must have a section at the end…
About `1.47 crore has been sanctioned under ‘Jajabara’ scheme for the construction of a motel, which was long pending due to lack of funds, at the gateway to western Odisha at Rairakhol. The motel, for which two acres of land…
InMobi founder and poster boy of Indian product startups Naveen Tewari has invested money in online home rentals firm NestAway Technologies along with venture capital firm IDG Ventures India and a few angel investors. The two-month-old Bengalurubased startup has raised…
BMC evicted the temporary vendors, who had encroached upon the free space and the road outside the Unit-II market. Besides the vendors, several illegal extensions and encroachments by permanent traders in front of their establishments were also removed to create space on…
Odisha Forest Department webcasting the mass nesting of Olive Ridley turtles on the Rushikulya river mouth in Ganjam district. Webcasting would help the Forest officials minimise the crowd that gathers at the site during the nesting period.
Tamil Nadu has been ranked as the best performing state on eight out of nine development parameters like economy, power, roads and health while Kerala secured the second slot, according to an Assocham study. Except for education, Tamil Nadu remained…
Odisha is one of the world’s largest turtle nesting sites. Forest officials said that many camps have been set up at the nesting sites to prevent poaching of this the endangered species. The mass nesting of Olive Ridley sea turtles,…