Kendrapada: Around 40,507.56 hectares of forest land has been encroached upon in Odisha, said Kirti Vardhan Singh, minister of state for environment, forest and climate change in the Lok Sabha.

Former Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC) secretary Rashmi Ranjan Padhi said the allegations are serious in nature. “The allegations of mineral theft under the protection of forest ...

Odisha has started recording incidents from different divisions as the forest fire season commenced on January 1. The forest fire report for the first month of the season revealed that the state ...

Berhampur: Odisha’s forest department officials Saturday recovered the carcass of a 13-year-old female elephant from a forest in Ganjam district, officials said. The animal might have died in ...

The monitoring process, which began on January 16, is a collaborative effort between the NTCA, the Wildlife Institute of India, and the Odisha forest department. Observational data is being ...

Bodies of two girls in school uniforms were found hanging from a tree in a forest in Odisha’a Malkangiri district, police said on Saturday. The girls, who were missing for two days, were identified as ...

BHUBANESWAR: The Forest Department on Friday said around 15,723 km of fire lines are being created in different wildlife and ...

Sourced by the Telegraph Fourteen Maoists, including five women and a commander carrying a bounty of ₹1 crore, have been gunned down in the past 24 hours by security forces inside a forest along the ...

India has 29 states with at least 720 districts comprising of approximately 6 lakh villages, and over 8200 cities and towns. Indian postal department has allotted a unique postal code of pin code ...

Boipariguda (Koraput): Police seized 10.23 quintal ganja inside Tikarpada forest in Left-wing extremists (LWE)-infested G. Majhiguda GP under Boipariguda police limits in Odisha's Koraput district.

Berhampur (Odisha), Feb 8 (PTI) Odisha’s forest department officials on Saturday recovered the carcass of a 13-year-old female elephant from a forest in Ganjam district, officials said. The animal ...