Bhubaneswar: In a bid to improve the maternal and child healthcare practices in the state, the Odisha government on Wednesday launched the state-funded scheme Mamata.

Bhubaneswar: With Space Based Information Support for Decentralized Planning (SIS-DSP), a new space-based technology providing useful data, the Odisha government has planned to use it for micro-lev

BHADRAK: After a devastating flood, the spectre of drought looms large over Bhadrak district with paddy crops in thousands of acres being damaged for want of water.

BHUBANESWAR: The State Government has decided to initiate steps to ease the problem of traffic congestion and movement difficulties caused by heavy pressure of mineral-carrying trucks on roads.

BHUBANESWAR: Just nine urban centres of the State can boast of a population of one lakh and more. None has touched the one million mark.

Sambalpur: The Odisha State Pollution Control Board (OSPCB) and the district administration on Monday sealed four kilns and the cold rolling mill (CRM) complex of Bhusan Steel and Power at Thelkuli

Bhubaneswar: With many power producers including Nalco facing coal crisis, the Odisha government on Monday asked Mahanadi Coalfield Ltd (MCL), a subsidiary of Coal India Ltd (CIL), to submit period

ROURKELA: With the Supreme Court asking the CBI to go after owners of the companies involved in illegal mining in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh, illegal mine owners in Koida sector are a panicked lo

Bhubaneswar: Demanding formation of an independent expert committee to probe alleged mismanagement of water in Hirakud reservoir by the Odisha government that led to recent high flood, the State BJ

Bhubaneswar: Though Odisha possesses a vast stock of medicinal plants, it still loses an annual revenue to the tune of Rs 500 crore due to absence of a herbal market.