Two persons died and 15 others, including two women, were injured in a stampede on Tuesday evening on a foot overbridge at Santragachi railway station in West Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee......
As a Naxal area commander in violence-hit Keonjhar district in Odisha, Udam Sundhi once aimed to overthrow the Indian government. Today, as a home guard, he tries to preserve law and order in the......
Orissa has lost 570 elephants in the last two decades mainly due to poaching and electrocution.While poachers have killed 231 elephants during the period, 155 got electrocuted and 339 died due to......
Thanks to sustained conservation efforts, the tiger population in the country has risen to 1706 compared with 1411 in 2006, a 12 per cent increase that excludes the big cats of Sundarbans, the......
Believed to have been extinct in Simlipal's riparian waterholes since 1979, the highly endangered Mugger or the marsh crocodiles are now teeming in all the major rivers emerging from the south......
Indian Oil Corporation will fund restoration of the Sun temple at Konark in Orissa, Minister for Tourism and Culture Ambika Soni said on Tuesday. "The Archaeological Survey of India has entered......