Bhubaneswar: Lightning strikes have claimed 1,418 lives in Odisha over the past five years, Revenue and Disaster Management Minister Suresh Pujari told the Assembly Thursday. Replying to a query by BJP legislator Tankadhar Tripathy, the minister said the fatalities took place between 2020-21 and 2024-25. Pujari said lightnings claimed 339 lives during 2020-21, 296 (2021-22), […]