Between 2020 and June 2020, several ash pond accidents have been reported across India. These accidents have caused deaths, extensive pollution of the water, air, soil and loss of property. Unfortunately, the public outrage associated with coal ash pollution remains limited to big disasters. The slow poisoning of communities living …
ROURKELA: The echo of land acquisition for Posco steel plant in Jagatsinghpur district reverberates in the tribal hinterland of Khandadhar, as the spectre of iron ore mining by the South Korean company haunts the primitive tribals near the waterfall. Disquiet prevailed in the villages in and around the bio-rich reserve, …
Bhubaneswar: A thunder storm hit several parts of Odisha on Thursday afternoon killing 12 people and injuring 34 others. According to the Met department, rain accompanied by thunderstorm lashed almost the entire Northern Odisha where the impact of the storm was quite visible in the state and the twin city …
ROURKELA: A severe heat wave hit Sundargarh district with temperature soaring to 43.5 degree Celsius on Thursday at Sundargarh town. Rourkela city, about 100 km from Sundargarh, was a little cooler at 42.8 degree C. Mercury surged upward in the past couple of days leaving the citizens distressed. Fortunately, no …
Air pollution tolerance index (APTI) is used to select plant species tolerant to air pollution. Four physiological and biochemical parameters, namely: leaf extract pH, ascorbic acid, total chlorophyll and relative water content were combined together in a formulation signifying the APTI of plants.
The present study spanning over two consecutive years (Oct 2007-2008) was conducted to assess the impact of Durga-idol immersion in the river Bramhani at Rourkela. Idol immersion and its impact on the water quality were studied by considering the magnitude of the environmental problems associated with the Durga-idol immersion.
ROURKELA: Development works have brought along heavy pollution in the ever expanding Rourkela city. Currently, three major road widening projects are being carried out in the Steel City at a snail
ROURKELA: Safe drinking water has become a dream for people of several interior pockets of the coal-rich Hemgir block under Sundargarh district where fear of gastroenteritis outbreak is stalking menacingly. Amid several incidents of diarrhoea in remote villages, the Sundargarh district health administration is on its toes to arrest the …
The new formula for the proposed National Food Security Act (NFSA) arrived at by a meeting of the Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council (NAC) on Wednesday has attracted the criticism of activists of the Right to Food Campaign, who say it is full of ambiguities and leaves many issues wide …
ROURKELA: Rourkela city is sitting on garbage, literally. Public sanitation has gone for a toss in the absence of a solid-waste treatment plant. Lack of space has been the major impediment in this direction, but not any more. The Rourkela municipality and Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) have agreed to set …
BHUBANESWAR: Orissa's sex ratio of 972 females per 1,000 males looks comfortable. But, if the sex ratio of the child population in the age group 06 years is taken into account, it shrinks to only 953 girl child per 1,000 boys. Here lies the nagging problem. The problem of sex …
ROURKELA: Intense heat wave condition continues to grip Rourkela with the temperature being recorded at 46.2 degree Celsius today. Six days after heavy rain cooled down mercury to as low as 34.6, the Steel City has seen a phenomenal rise of nearly 12 degree. The upward spur in mercury has …
ROURKELA: Even as vegetable prices continue to soar, the horticulture potential of the Sundargarh district is not being tapped. If done properly, it could come handy in keeping vegetable prices under check across the year. Agro experts said an integrated and holistic approach is the need of the hour to …
ROURKELA: Scores of natural water channels, traditionally irrigating farmlands in Sundargarh district, are now facing the question of existence. Most of them have either dried up or are on the verge of extinction owing to man-made factors. The tribal-dominated Sundargarh district is blessed with green canopy and small hill ranges. …
BHUBANESWAR: After system of rice intensification (SRI) paddy, it is sustainable sugarcane initiative (SSI) which would be the next generation sugarcane production technique with the rising labour cost and water crisis in the State. The SSI method would not only be requiring less labour and water, but it would also …
ROURKELA: The cry for drinking water in the Steel City is getting shriller with the rise in mercury levels. Dry pockets of the city have been feeling the pinch with the temperature hovering above 41 degree Celsius in the past few days. The fall in ground water table has only …
CEMENT sales in Bihar, West Bengal and Jharkhand rode an extraordinary construction boom to grow at a record 41%, 24% and 29% between April and December from a year ago, eclipsing the national average of 10% by a stretch. In contrast, cement demand was low in the south and stable …
BHUBANESWAR: Even as the State Vigilance is probing the multi-crore mining scam, illegal mining activities are in full swing. This is evident from two separate official letters of the Deputy Director of Mines (DDM), Joda, to the Inspectorin- charge, Government Railway Police, Rourkela, on January 30. Alleging that iron ore …
ADHUNIK Corporation, which is planning to set up an integrated steel plant in West Bengal, has received allotment of a substantial portion of its required land, in what comes as a major boost to the company
At least six workers and two senior officers of Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) in Orissa's Sundergarh district fell ill on Sunday following leakage of toxic gas in one of its blast furnaces. The affected persons were immediately admitted to the Ispat General Hospital at Rourkela. While four of them were …
