Orangutans taken to Balasore, STF starts probe

Bhubaneswar, Sept. 10 -- The Odisha Police Crime Branch's Special Task Force (STF) on Wednesday began probing how five orangutans, which are not native to the state, reached a reserve forest in Balaso... Read More

Orangutans taken to Balasore, STF starts probe

Bhubaneswar, Sept. 10 -- The Odisha Police Crime Branch's Special Task Force (STF) on Wednesday began probing how five orangutans, which are not native to the state, reached a reserve forest in Balaso... Read More

5 orangutans' rescue in Odisha raises trafficking fears

India, Sept. 9 -- Five orangutans, a critically endangered species native to the Indonesian and Malaysian rainforests, were found on Tuesday in a forested area in Ranakotha Badapahi in coastal Odisha'... Read More

'Welfare state can't be apathetic': Orissa HC on employee's regularisation

India, Sept. 9 -- The Orissa high court has set aside a government order rejecting a contractual college employee's regularisation, saying a welfare state grounded in constitutional values cannot adop... Read More

Odisha government notifies new rules for settlement of Jagannath Temple land

India, Sept. 8 -- The Odisha Cabinet on Monday approved new rules to bring the management and settlement of land belonging to the 12th-century Jagannath Temple under a digital and more tightly monitor... Read More

Orangutans, critically endangered species not found in India, seen in Odisha; wildlife trafficking suspected

India, Sept. 8 -- Five orangutans, a critically endangered species native to the Indonesian and Malaysian rainforests, were found on Tuesday in a forested area in Ranakotha Badapahi in coastal Odisha'... Read More

Orangutans native to SE Asia found in Odisha; wildlife trafficking suspected

India, Sept. 8 -- Five orangutans, a critically endangered species native to the Indonesian and Malaysian rainforests, were found on Tuesday in a forested area in Ranakotha Badapahi in coastal Odisha'... Read More

Railway employee lures Odisha passenger with confirmed ticket promise, rapes her

India, Sept. 4 -- A 54-year-old railway employee was arrested on Thursday for allegedly raping a 20-year-old passenger after luring her to a room at Odisha's Rourkela railway station with the promise ... Read More

Bhubaneswar court dismisses petition against Naveen Patnaik, his aide VK Pandian

India, Sept. 3 -- A court in Bhubaneswar on Wednesday dismissed a petition against former Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik and his close aide VK Pandian over alleged misuse of government helicopte... Read More

Three killed in separate wall collapse incidents in Odisha amid heavy rainfall

India, Sept. 2 -- Three people, including a three-year-old boy, were killed in separate wall-collapse incidents in Odisha on Tuesday as the state crossed its normal monsoon rainfall quota with a month... Read More

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