Touching Kalinga taste buds

Odisha Parba was a festival loved and thronged by Odia people living in Delhi. What set it apart was the variety of traditional food it offered, with seafood being the most popular

Stick check

Like in recent years, there has been no representation from Delhi in the Indian hockey team that is playing the World Cup in Odisha. Decline in hockey culture is to blame for decline in quality players, say experts

Villages marooned, people forced to drink dirty flood water in Odisha

Diarrhoea cases are also being reported from the 14 districts affected by the deluge as people are drinking contaminated water.

Odisha flood situation grim in northern districts, over 7 lakh already evacuated in state

Even as the state is reeling under flood fury and the tremendous task of evacuating lakhs of people, the weather department has alerted more rains in the next few days in Odisha.

Weather update: Heavy to very heavy rainfall likely in Odisha, red alert in many districts; Delhi cloudy

The IMD has issued a red' warning for heavy to very heavy rainfall in Keonjhar, Bhadrak, Balasore and Mayurbhanj districts till 8.30 am on Saturday.

Weather updates: Odisha situation grim, 600 school children stranded; heavy rains likely in Bengal

So far, two lakh people have been affected due to the flood while around 24,000 hectares of farmland have been hit. Of them, 1.20 lakh people in 237 villages were marooned and over 26,000 people have been evacuated.

Weather update: Odisha, Chhattisgarh bracing for floods as Mahanadi swells; heavy rainfall in Mumbai

Several districts in Chhattisgarh have received heavy rainfall since Saturday evening, resulting in rise in water level of rivers like Mahanadi, Shivnath and Indravati as well as flooding of villages in low-lying areas