Nabarangpur

Change sweeps maize fields: Online auction, better prices

June 03, 2016 1:34 am

Today, maize farmers from Nabarangpur’s Raighar and Umerkote blocks, like Sarkar from Hatibeda village, are eagerly waiting for the e-auction to resume in June when the Rabi harvest starts.

PM Modi briefed about needs of poorest constituency: MP

May 15, 2016 3:20 am

Majhi said he met the PM on a suggestion from NITI Aayog vice-chairman Arvind Panagariya following a meeting, on May 3, between the two on a development roadmap for Nabarangpur.

Nabarangpur: Poorest district leaps to top 5 in Odisha with 92 per cent pass in Class X

May 11, 2016 5:44 am

Class X results declared on May 2, standing fifth among the state’s 30 districts.

How a railway project put truck driver’s son on plane to Japan

April 18, 2016 3:04 pm

Nabarangpur has some of the most dismal indicators for education, with 57.35 per cent of the population having never attended school.

Poorest district gets first govt degree college

April 15, 2016 11:35 am

Spread over 10 acres, the ground and first floors of the building have come up and, according to the district administration, the college will be “up and running in a few months”.

Nabarangpur again: Infant dies after being branded with a nail

March 11, 2016 6:37 am

The infant succumbed to infection after a local witchdoctor branded him with a hot iron nail a week ago. The infant had been taken to the witchdoctor after a vein on his abdomen became prominent.

Another infant branded with hot iron in Nabarangpur, condition stable

January 29, 2016 9:58 pm

"The parents took the infant to the quack after his abdomen swelled. Though he was critical on Thursday, now the infant is stable. The boy is now breastfeeding," said Dr Satpathy.

Quack held for branding 26-day-old infant with hot iron nails as cure

December 26, 2015 11:57 am

Nabarangpur District Collector Rashmita Panda told The Indian Express that police have arrested Purusotttam Ghasi, the quack who allegedly branded the infant a fortnight ago at Butipadar village of Papadahandi block.

Multi-crop practice: Amid gloom, two farmers have reasons to smile

December 17, 2015 3:42 am

With help from the district watershed mission, he dug a 50ft-50 ft pond. Last year, he managed to make a profit of Rs 40,000.

Nabarangpur: Drought even in ‘normal’ monsoon

December 17, 2015 6:17 am

What the aggregate figure conceals is the huge monthly variation in rainfall engendering a drought even in a supposedly normal monsoon year.

One night in Odisha village that sets with the sun

August 20, 2015 5:29 pm

Children hurriedly wrap up homework, parents look up to see how far the dark is, everyone hopes they don’t have to wake up during the night.

District Zero: (Un)Make in Nabarangpur

September 14, 2015 10:29 am