Orissa Villages

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  2 Trampled To Death By Elephants In Orissa: Police

  A 40-year-old man was trampled to death when he was sleeping in his house at Dangarsahi village in the district on Tuesday.

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  To Remind PM Of A Promise He Made Years Ago, Odisha Man Walks 1,350 Km

  A man walked for more than a thousand kilometres from Odisha to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi, just to give him a small reminder of a promise he made to the people of his village years ago.

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  In Darkness For Years, This Village Turned To The Sun

  Reeling under darkness for years, a small village in Odisha now enjoys uninterrupted power supply. Situated around 25 kilometres from state capital Bhubaneswar, Barapitha now has the distinction of being the first fully solar-powered village in the state.

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  Elephants Wreaking Havoc in Orissa's Koraput

  Wild elephants have been wreaking havoc on human habitations and crops in three Koraput villages since Saturday night, forest officials said today.

• Police threatening to kill me in encounter: Orissa sarpanch

  An Orissa village sarpanch, who allegedly accompanied an Essar executive to meet the Maoists, says he is being threatened by the police with an encounter death.

• Orissa floods: Nearly 800 villages marooned

  The flood situation in Orissa continues to remain grim as over 15 lakh people across eight districts have been hit by a second spell of major floods.

• Orissa floods: 2,600 villages submerged, 11 lakh affected

  Flood's fury in Mahanadi and other rivers has wreaked havoc in Orissa submerging about 2,600 villages spread over 19 districts and leaving eight dead as the state government today stepped up relief and rescue operations for 11 lakh affected people.

• Two die as goods trains collide in Orissa

  Two people were killed early Wednesday when two freight trains collided head on in Orissa's Keonjhar district, officials said. The trains collided near Tigiriapalli village in the mineral-rich district, police officer Prakash Toppo told IANS from the accident site.

• Posco project: Work halted, villagers claim police excess

  Work at the proposed Posco steel project site in Orissa's Jagatsinghpur district could not be taken up today due to protest by locals who chased the police leading to a brief scuffle between them.

• POSCO project: Orissa govt ready to hear villagers' voice

  After fresh trouble at the proposed POSCO plant in Orissa, the ruling BJD has told NDTV it is ready for a referendum in villages around the site to find out what the people want. Speaking on the NDTV show The Buck Stops Here, BJD MP Jay Panda said that "Orissa government has learnt its lessons from West Bengal." India's largest Foreign Direc...

• Prohibitory orders around church at Orissa village

  Prohibitory orders were imposed around a church at a village in Orissa's Jajpur district today following a dispute between two groups of Christians, official sources said.     Prohibitory orders under section 144 CrPc were clamped at Suasahi village in the Kuakhia police station area, about 30 km from here, following a complaint...

• Govt identifies over 10,000 villages as drought-hit in Orissa

  As many as 10,440 villages, spread over 15 of Orissa's 30 districts, were identified as drought-hit as more than 50 per cent of paddy crop were lost due to inadequate rainfall in this monsoon.Revenue and Disaster Management Minister S N Patro said on Tuesday, "The affected farmers in 10,440 villages and urban pockets will get compensation as announ...

• Orissa to electrify 2,000 villages by using solar power

  Realising the huge potential of generating power from renewable energy, the Orissa government on Wednesday said they will electrify at least 2,000 villages by using solar energy or other non-conventional methods.The villages would be provided with electricity facility by March 2012, officials said adding that a decision in this regard was taken at ...

• Teen stabbed by Naxals looking for his father

  He was 15, and he was alone at home when they came looking for his father. The Naxals - there were reportedly 30 of them - tied his wrists together, and then they went at him with a knife. He bled to death, near his house in a small village on the Orissa-Bengal border.

• Tension at Posco site in Orissa, villagers oppose survey work

  The situation at the proposed Posco site in Orissa is extremely volatile.It's likely that the government will try to enter Dhinkia village, the stronghold of the anti-Posco agitators, on Tuesday for an exercise being described as a survey of land and homes that will need evacuation for the South Korean steel plant and port project in the area.Local...