Affidavit by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change in the matter of Sisir Kumar Panda Vs Union of India & Others dated 20/05/2025. The issue pertained to the removal of illegal construction/obstruction caused by the state authorities as well as the private persons in the ecological sensitive zone …
The Odisha government had raised objections to the project in the apex court by way of a petition and had challenged the environment clearance accorded to the project. The Supreme Court issued notices to the Central government and Andhra Pradesh over environmental clearances pertaining to the Polavaram project. The Odisha …
The study claimed there is no scope for representation of mining-affected communities in district DMF bodies that are dominated by district officials and political representatives from mining areas. Even as a whopping Rs 18,467 crore has been collected from 20 minerals bearing States of the country under the most ambitious …
Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of Common Cause Vs Union of India & Others dated 24/07/2018 regarding violation of environmenal and forest clearances and resultant compensation. The report submitted by CEC dated 17/01/2018 states that the compensation assessed in terms of the judgment and order …
Cuttack: The dengue menace in the state is showing no signs of slowing down with 55 people being admitted to SCB Medical College and Hospital here with symptoms of dengue in the past eight days. Over the past week, more than seven persons tested positive for dengue at the hospital …
Cuttack: The civic body has launched a mosquito-repelling drive to check the spread of dengue in and around the city. Commissioner of Cuttack Municipal Corporation Bikash Ranjan Mohapatra told The Telegraph on Tuesday that they would primarily focus on areas from where dengue cases were reported in the past fortnight. …
Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Tuesday announced a ban on the use of plastic in the state from October 2, on the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti. In the first phase, plastic will be banned in six places — the pilgrim city of Puri, Bhubaneswar, Cuttack, Berhampur, Sambalpur and …
Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of Mrinalini Padhi Vs Union of India dated 05/07/2018 regarding management of Shri Jagannath Temple, Puri, Odisha. Supreme Court says that difficulties faced by the visitors, deficiencies in management, maintenance of hygiene, appropriate utilization of offerings and protections of assets …
CUTTACK: Dengue has again reared its ugly head in Cuttack. At least two cases from Tulasipur and Jagatpur have been reported following which Cuttack Municipal Corporation (CMC) has started widespread awareness campaign against the disease in the city. "The dengue patients are not residents of Cuttack but they have come …
Paradip: The Odisha State Pollution Control Board has directed two fertiliser plants here to make their effluent management system foolproof to plug possible discharge of waste materials from gypsum mounds to the peripheral water bodies. The pollution watchdog's directives came in the wake of complaint lodged by green activists expressing …
BHOPAL: After its first successful inter-state translocation of a tiger, Madhya Pradesh forest department on Wednesday captured and shifted a tigress to Satkosia tiger reserve in Odisha. This time, a two-year-old tigress has been relocated from Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve in Umaria district, said sources. A week ago, tiger MB2 was …
Move to ensure 12 more days of supply The Cabinet on Wednesday approved the establishment of strategic petroleum reserve (SPR) facilities at two locations —Chandikhol in Odisha, and Padur in Karnataka — with a total capacity of 6.5 Million Metric Tonnes (MMT), which works out to another 12 days of …
Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee leader Niranjan Patnaik hit out at the CM. In a series of tweets, he claimed he would show “the mirror to BJD government over the status of women in Odisha”. Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Wednesday announced that insurance coverage for women under the BJD’s health …
To secure long-term power security, the state government had signed pacts with 30 IPPs, envisaging generation capacity of 37,000 Mw Odisha has launched the crackdown on frivolous thermal power producers. The state government has kicked off the process of resuming land from developers of failed power projects. To secure long-term …
Interim report on Shri Jagannath Temple dated 26/06/2018 as per direction of the Supreme Court in Writ Petition No. 649 of 2018 (Mrunalini Padhi Vs Unio of India & Others). The report covers the following aspects: (a) Difficulties faced by the visitors; (b) Exploitative Practices, if any; (c) Deficiencies in …
In a country where state machinery typically moves slowly, the environment ministry under Prime Minister Narendra Modi has slashed the average time taken to grant clearances to 170 days from 600 days. India is fast-tracking environmental clearances for projects like power plants and coal mines in a bid to propel …
Sanitation access in schools is important to keep children, especially girl children in school. It is also important to spread the culture of safe sanitation more widely, especially among the young. Using a unique mapping of DISE (District Information System for Education) data on 0.94 million schools and Primary Census …
CUTTACK: The SCB Medical College and Hospital authorities have set up a special dengue ward to ensure best healthcare facilities for the patients. The ward has 150 beds apart from eight ICU beds. A team of doctors have been formed to take care of the patients. The ward is also …
BHOPAL: In a successful operation, a tiger was captured and translocated from Kanha national park in Madhya Pradesh to the Satkosia tiger reserve in Odisha on Wednesday. Officials claim this is the first time that a tiger from any tiger reserve has been sent to another state for reintroduction. The …
Cuttack: SCB Medical College and Hospital has opened its special dengue ward due to the increasing reports of dengue cases. The ward was closed in December after the number of patients decreased. The special dengue ward was made operational on Monday following instructions from the health department after more than …
Koraput: The administration claims that preventive measures are being taken to contain dengue but the fresh cases of the disease reported from Biranarayanpur village in Rayagada district on Saturday proves that the steps are not effective. Last week, five persons of the village were detected with the disease and treated …
