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Ancient & Medieval India

Ashoka's Two Separate Edicts at Dhauli and Jaugada Tell the Judicial Officers of Kalinga to Judge Without Anger or Haste, Promise Inspectors Every Five Years and Declare That All Men Are His Children

Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra, Born at Raghurajpur in 1926, Helped Shape Modern Odissi and Received the Padma Vibhushan in 2000

Ancient & Medieval India

Ratnagiri in Odisha Has Two Excavated Monasteries and Hundreds of Votive Stupas, Three Buddha Heads Found Since December 2024 and a Place on India's UNESCO Tentative List

Bhitarkanika's Saltwater Crocodiles Rose From 96 Counted in 1976 to 1,858 in January 2026, After a Project Begun in 1975 Released 3,008 Captive-Raised Juveniles Into Odisha's Creeks

Hirakud Dam Was Opened on 13 January 1957 With a 4.8-Kilometre Main Dam, a 743-Square-Kilometre Reservoir, Irrigation in Four Districts and Flood Cover for 9,500 Square Kilometres of the Mahanadi Delta

Odisha Announced an Agri-PV Policy on 22 October 2026 That Aims for 1 GW of Solar Above Working Fields by 2030, With 90 Per Cent of Every Site Kept Under Crops

AI & Technology

The Reserve Bank's Rs 169 Crore Data Centre and Cybersecurity Training Institute Opened Near Bhubaneswar on 25 October 2026, With Four Data Centres on an 18.55-Acre Campus

Chilika Lake Came Off the Ramsar Montreux Record on 11 November 2002 After a New Sea Mouth Took Fish Landings From About 1,600 Tonnes a Year to 14,053 Tonnes, and in January 2026 It Held 11,32,200 Birds and 159 Irrawaddy Dolphins

Odisha's Rushikulya Beach Recorded 6,98,718 Olive Ridley Turtles Laying Eggs in February 2025 and Gahirmatha 6,06,933 in March, With Trawlers Barred Within 20 km of the Nesting Coast for Seven Months a Year

Ancient & Medieval India

Udayagiri and Khandagiri Near Bhubaneswar Hold 33 Rock-Cut Caves and a 17-Line Inscription That Records the First 13 Years of King Kharavela of Kalinga

Government & States

Odisha Moved 9,83,642 People Out of Cyclone Phailin's Path in 2013, Produces More Than Half of India's Iron Ore and Became a Province on 1 April 1936

India's 2013 Cyclone Phailin Directly Killed 21 People Where the 1999 Odisha Super Cyclone Killed About 9,900, and Better Forecasts Were Only Part of the Reason

Itihasa & Faith

Puri Rebuilds Three Chariots of 16, 14 and 12 Wheels Every Year, and the 2026 Rath Yatra Began on 16 July in Heavy Rain

Ancient & Medieval India

The Temple That Is Really a Giant Stone Chariot for the Sun