Turtles are safe from intrusion as tourists and locals stay away from the coast due to the COVID-19 lockdown, while they are continuing mass nesting at Odisha’s Rushikulya rookery, reports assert. According to the Forest Department’s enumeration, over 2,78,502 mother...
Kumari Nayak, a 63-year-old woman from Odisha’s Ganjam district, has made it to the Guinness Book of World Records. The woman suffers from a condition called polydactylism and has 19 toes and 12 fingers. “I was born with this defect...
During the two-day National Tourism Conference, the Centre made an interesting announcement, which should get travellers pretty darn piqued! Union Minister Prahlad Singh said that, Tourism Ministry will fund the travel expenses of tourists who visit 15 destinations in the...
Plastic pollution is a major problem, and governments around the world including our own have banned single-use plastic with an aim to curb the crisis. Doing their bit, two Hisar dhabas offer people free meal in exchange for 20...
In another much needed move, the Indian Parliament had passed a bill on August 1, seeking to provide death penalty for aggravated sexual assault. The entailed amendments to the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act also provide...
Odisha has come out clean; the state has been vindicated! Almost two years after West Bengal walked away with geographical indication (GI) tag recognition for rasgulla, the eastern state of Odisha has also finally received the Geographical Indication tag...
The streets of Puri, Odisha, are bursting with colour and fervour today. On account of the famous chariot festival, Rath Yatra, of course! Here you are perched in front of a screen, reading this. Feeling FOMO? Us too. For...
Cradled between the sun-kissed beaches of the Bay of Bengal and the dense forests of Eastern Ghats, Odisha is an experience that is at once sublime and aesthetically revitalizing. And if you find comfort in the pages of history...
