Govt plans to push homestays in Ganjam coastal villages
Odisha government plans homestays in five Ganjam coastal villages near Blue Flag Sonapur beach, offering Tourism Policy-2026 subsidies and investor incentives.
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In 1928, supporters had raised $5 million for Great Smoky Mountains National Park but rising land prices stalled the effort; a Rockefeller memorial fund matched it with another $5 million, helping make the park possible
Explore the inspiring story of how $5 million raised for the creation of Great Smoky Mountains National Park stalled due to rising land prices until the Rockefeller family matched it with another $5 million, making the park a reality.
ECoR turns scrap into artwork to beautify stations, rly premises
East Coast Railway turns metal scrap into public art, installing sculptures at stations like Puri, Bhubaneswar and Sambalpur to promote reuse and beautify premises.
SSA programmer nabbed by vigilance taking Rs 30,000 bribe
Odisha Vigilance arrested SSA programmer Chandrajit Parija in Jagatsinghpur for allegedly taking a Rs 30,000 bribe to clear digital blackboard bills.
Nana Patekar’s legacy beyond films: How his water project made a drought-hit Marathwada village tanker-free
CHHATRAPATI SAMBHAJINAGAR: As film lovers across India mourned the death of veteran actor Nana Patekar on Thursday, a village in central Maharashtra
Egypt arrests 6 journalists from fact-checking website over ‘terrorism’, ‘fake news’ charges
Egyptian authorities have charged six journalists working for independent fact-checking platform Matsda2sh with alleged links to the outlawed Muslim
Patrón co-founder John Paul DeJoria turned a 96-acre Texas ranch into a home for more than 120 exotic animals; when it sold for $6.93 million, the buyer inherited the herd and a 2,700-square-foot underground shelter
A 96-acre Texas ranch once owned by Patrón Tequila co-founder John Paul DeJoria came with an unusual combination of luxury, wildlife and an underground
Meet John Reznikoff, the US collector who owns $1 million worth of hair from Abraham Lincoln, Marilyn Monroe and Einstein
John Reznikoff has built one of the world's strangest historical collections: hair from some of the most famous people in history.
UN-doing the United Nations: Can its next chief fix a system under severe strain?
'If you ever feel useless, remember; the United Nations exists,' goes a viral meme, reflecting the growing frustration over the organisation's inability
How FBI tracked an ISIS-linked teen, stopped him from carrying out Mall of America mass shooting
The FBI arrested an 18-year-old Minnesota man on Tuesday after nearly two years of tracking him over an alleged plot to carry out a mass shooting at the
Marriage fraud, duplicate identity: 4 Pakistani men to lose US citizenship in largest denaturalization move by the Trump administration
Among the 40 men who will lose their US citizenship in the Donald Trump administration's largest denaturalization move, four are from Pakistan.
UK court blocks appeal in diesel emissions lawsuits against carmakers
London's High Court on Thursday refused claimants permission to appeal against its July ruling, which largely favoured some of the world's biggest
3 years, 50,000 rifles later: Why US Army is moving on from the M7
The US Army is moving on from the M7 rifle barely three years after beginning to field it, with soldier feedback over the weapon's weight, length and
Prince William launches Amazon partnership to protect Indigenous defenders; partner reaches 110 million hectares, with DiCaprio's video support
In November 2025, Prince William used the stage of the fourth annual United for Wildlife Global Summit in Rio de Janeiro to unveil a new alliance for the
Prince William's charitable foundation funded homes on Duchy land in Cornwall; in August, the first phase was handed to a charity, providing accommodation and support for 16 people facing homelessness
A new housing project in Cornwall is putting a different face on the fight against homelessness.
CCTV captures a father’s fear: Son attacks him with iron rod, 4 years later, he dies by suicide
VASAI: An iron rod in his hand, a man entered his elderly father’s home in Vasai near Mumbai through the back entrance and moved towards a door, allegedly
17-year-old rents Audi for Rs 16,000, crashes into 3 vehicles in Delhi, kills pedestrian
NEW DELHI: A 17-year-old allegedly crashed an Audi car he had rented for a friend's birthday into three vehicles in southwest Delhi's Kishangarh, killing
