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 …
Of all things, sea turtles have become the substance of trade news these days. In March 1998, the US slapped a ban on the import of shrimp from India on the plea that trawlers which fish for shrimp in Indian waters do not use the turtle excluder device. India challenged …
IN 1975, when she was prime minister, Indira Gandhi had suggested deploying Coast Guards to check illegal trawling with a view to leave the Olive Ridleys unmolested in the Orissa area. Gahirmatha had just been brought to the attention of the world by Bustard. Over the years, however, there was …
India, Pakistan, Thailand and Malaysia have won the shrimp-turtle case in the World Trade Organisation (wto) against the us government. The us had imposed a unilateral ban on the import of shrimp caught in a way that killed endangered turtles. The us government had taken the action under its own …
nearly 12,000 Olive Ridley turtles on the Orissa coast have died so far. According to conservationists, the increased human activity in the area is threatening the turtles. They blame the government's reluctant approach in preventing mass deaths of the turtles on the coast due to trawler operations. Earlier, the turtles …
The Orissa High Court has settled the three-month-old controversy over the sale of Kendu leaf in favour of the state-owned Orissa Forest Development Corporation (OFDC). The Court dismissed the petition filed by the Federation of Bidi, Bidi Leaf & Tobacco Merchants that has challenged the invitation of bids by OFDC …
even as insat -1 b continues to send data on weather situation, the people of the villages in the border districts of West Bengal and Orrisa were caught unawares at 3 pm on March 24 , 1998, doing their daily chores when the tornado hit the area. The cyclone which …
• The Union Ministry of Environment and Forests has constituted a committee to montor the implementation of the rules of hazardous waste management. M G K Menon, former minister for science and technology will head the panel. • The Central government has infor-med the Supreme Court that Agra does not …
between 1846 and 1975, black tigers were sighted only six times the world over. But in the Simlipal Tiger Reserve (str), in the Baripada district in Orissa, they have been sighted at least six times in the last two decades. "Simlipal has the world's highest rate of black tiger sighting. …
gahirmatha beach in the eastern state of Orissa, the world's largest rookery of the endangered Olive Ridley turtle, will soon lose this superlative. The turtles do not find the beach suitable for nesting any more and are changing to other places following continual disturbances due to human activities. This has …
November marks the beginning of the breeding season of the endangered Olive Ridley turtle on the Gahirmatha coast in the eastern state of Orissa. The first school of the protected turtles is expected on the beach by the third week of the month, according to the estimates of the Coast …
GAHIRAMATHA beach in Orissa which is the biggest nesting ground for Olive Ridley sea turtles in the world will be declared as a marine sanctuary. Last year, thousands of Olive Ridleys died while being caught in the gill nets of fishing trawlers when they neared the coast for their annual …
The infamous Indian bureaucracy beat the turtle literally this time. Two scientists who desired to conduct a study on the endangered Olive ridley turtle on the coast of the eastern state of Orissa were left with no option but to suspend their project because the government delayed its approval beyond …
Oxfam (India), a relief and development organisation, has launched a massive relief and sustainable development programme in the drought-hit areas of Orissa. The Rs 1.5 crore programme will be implemented in the worst-affected villages of Bolangir, Kalahandi and Nuapara districts, with the help of local NGOs and community-based organisa- tions. …
OXFAM (India) Trust has successfully completed its drought relief programme by supporting 14 community- based organisations in the three worst-affected districts of western Orissa - Bolangir, Nuapada and Bargarh. "We would just like to give the government a demonstration of the drought mitigation programme with our limited r6ources in terms …
gondwanaland: supercontinent in geological history, of which India was a part. Gondwana ('Forest of the Gonds'): land of the Gond tribals and their powerful empire. A historic region which straddles the four states of Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Orissa. And famed for its traditional water harvesting structures. However, …
While a kata was a relatively big structure, there were several smaller systems like bandhs and mundas built all over western Orissa. A bandh is a four-sided tank excavated below the kata , from which it derives its water by percolation. Normally used for drinking purposes only, bandhs are invariably
"Development of modern, centralised system of irrigation is the main reason. Everywhere in the command area of the Hirakud dam, these structures lie defunct today,' says R S Rao, reader, department of economics, University of Sambalpur. His views are echoed in the villages. "When we get water, though not so …
The book narrates the adventure of twelve-year-old twins Ishita and Sujai at the Chilika lake in Orissa. The book tells about the experiences of Ishita and Sujai with local fisher folk and their problems. It also talks degradation of the lake due silt and sewage and how the twins get …
hirakud, one of the largest and the oldest dams in the country, has developed cracks. Its leaking walls may fall apart any time and sweep away the coastal delta of Puri and Cuttack. The Orissa government, however, is unfazed about the eventuality saying that there is "nothing to be alarmed …
charging ahead: In the race to manufacture user-friendly electric cars, Canada's Vancouver-based Ballard Systems seems to have taken a lead with a silent, non-polluting fuel-celled car. The six-seater car, which can run at a speed of 105 km per hour with more than 240 km between refuelling stops, has been …
