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Homestay count grows manifold in Odisha but local experience missing

The New Indian Express Sambalpur

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January 04, 2025

FROM close to 50 in 2017 to over 350 now, the state has witnessed a significant rise in properties being listed as homestays.

- Diana Sahu @Bhubaneswar

FROM close to 50 in 2017 to over 350 now, the state has witnessed a significant rise in properties being listed as homestays. The experience of local culture, an integral part of homestays, is missing, though.

With discerning travellers looking for homely and less expensive travel experiences, many house owners seeking a lucrative income source are now listing their properties as homestays on online travel aggregators such as Airbnb, MakeMyTrip, Booking.com, or even social media platforms like Instagram.

Airbnb alone has listed 270 properties including villas, apartments, farm stays, flats, palaces and houses across Odisha as homestays with prices ranging from ₹1,300 to ₹17,000 per night. As far as booking trends go, while places like Kerala, Mumbai, Uttarakhand, Bengaluru, Goa are still favourites among domestic travellers on Airbnb, Puri has recently emerged as a top choice for homestay bookings on the platform.

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Murmu on ‘most modern’ Rafale sortie from Ambala today, first Prez to do so

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HE recent spate of child deaths in India from contaminated cough syrups starkly exposes a grave systemic failure in the nation’s pharmaceutical regulation. In early October 2025, at least twenty-four children in Madhya Pradesh’s Chhindwara district died of acute kidney failure after consuming Coldrif syrup—a medicine prescribed for the common cold. Three more fatalities in Rajasthan’s Sikar and Bharatpur districts, linked to another dextromethorphan-based syrup from Kaysons Pharma, brought the toll to twenty-seven.

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Apartments priced ₹1 cr or more account for 62% of total sales during Jan-Sept

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The New Indian Express Sambalpur

Tejashwi stamp on Oppn’s manifesto

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The New Indian Express Sambalpur

The New Indian Express Sambalpur

Mehli Mistry voted out of Tata Trusts

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October 29, 2025

The New Indian Express Sambalpur

Gajapati hit by landslides as heavy rains lash south Odisha

LANDSLIDES occurred in several places of Gajapati and Koraput districts disrupting road communication even as rain intensity increased in the state under the effect of cyclone Montha on Tuesday.

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1 min

October 29, 2025

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TVS Motor PAT rises 42% to ₹795 cr, revenue from operations surges 24%

CHENNAI-based two-wheeler and three-wheeler major -TVS Motor Company — on Tuesday reported a 42% jump in consolidated net profit during the second quarter of FY26 (Q2FY26) to ₹795.48 crore, up from ₹560.49 crore in the corresponding quarter last fiscal (Q2FY25).

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TAGGING AI CONTENT MUST, FIX FAKE REDRESS AS WELL

In an age where fraud and fakery have been turbocharged by artificial intelligence tools, the Indian government has proposed rules to explicitly label all AI-generated content shared in the country.

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October 29, 2025

The New Indian Express Sambalpur

The New Indian Express Sambalpur

With rich river network, tapping national waterways will boost green logistics

IMAGINE a future India where goods glide on barges instead of trucks, logistics corridors slide along rivers instead of highways, and the carbon footprint shrinks even as trade expands.

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Come what may, we will stand our ground, says Muivah in Manipur

FROM his birthplace Somdal village in Manipur, NSCN-IM leader Thuingaleng Muivah on Tuesday said the outfit would not deviate from its position on the Naga political issue.

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1 mins

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