ROURKELA: With three solitary tuskers posing threat to human lives and property in Bonai forest division of the district, forest officials radio-collared two of them while efforts are underway to cover the third jumbo by Wednesday night. Sources in the Forest department said one of the problematic elephants was successfully tranquillised and radio-collared at a forest patch of Dharani Dhar …
As many as 41 people, including 12 in the steel city of Rourkela, died of suspected heatstroke in Odisha in the last 24 hours as an unprecedented heatwave swept the state on Thursday. Similarly, in Sundergarh district hospital, four people died due to suspected heat stress. Similarly, 8 people in Sambalpur, 6 in Bolangir, 7 in Jharsuguda and three in …
ROURKELA/BHUBANESWAR: Ten individuals are suspected to have succumbed to heatstroke at Rourkela Government Hospital within a span of seven hours on Thursday, as mercury levels soared to 46.1 degrees Celsius in the steel city. Sources said the RGH started admitting the victims from 1 pm onwards and in the next six and half hours, the count rose to 10. An …
It gives us all in Odisha a sense of prestige and pride, to host for the second time, the Odisha Hockey Men’s World Cup 2023. As the Odisha Hockey Men’s World Cup enters its final week, Bhubaneswar and Rourkela have received support from around the world, which has boosted their economies. Odisha has already introduced shuttle flights between Bhubaneswar and …