The district administration of Balangir district, Odisha has ordered all government and private schools and Anganwadis to remain closed today, August 2, amid heavy rainfall alert. The India ...

BALANGIR: WITH Balangir district recording below normal rainfall for the fourth consecutive month in a row, crisis looms large in the farming sector as 70 per cent of people in the district are ...

Agricultural operations, especially paddy cultivation process, in Balangir district has virtually come to a grinding halt, thanks to inadequate monsoon rainfall received in the month of July this ...

New Delhi: All schools including government, private and Anganwadis have been ordered shut in Odisha's Balangir district amid heavy rainfall alert. Heavy rain continued to lash across Odisha as a ...

BALANGIR: Lack of adequate rainfall has increased the woes of farmers in Balangir district. More than 80 per cent of farmers and 50 per cent land in the district are starting at severe drought ...

Balangir, Sept. 13: Drought threat looms large over Balangir district as rain continues to elude the area. On Sunday, Nabanna or Nuakhai, the most popular festival of western Orissa, was observed here ...

Heavy rain lashed different parts of Odisha affecting normal life, cutting off roads and inundating low-lying areas. Two persons were killed in the Patnagarh block of Balangir district when a wall ...

Widespread rain in Kalahandi, Balangir and Nuapada districts has led ... and minor disruption of traffic in some areas of Balasore district. It is one of the six districts where the government ...

With the specter of drought hanging on Balangir in the face of a 91% deficit in rainfall this season, a mass exodus is likely to hit the backward district if reports of farmers contacting labour ...

The Special Relief Commissioner on Tuesday issued an advisory to the district ... Kalahandi, Balangir, Subarnapur, Sambalpur, Deogarh and Cuttack could very likely witness heavy rainfall till ...