Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Nizamuddin West Association Vs Union of India & Others dated 16/04/2025. The matter related to desilting of 24 drains with special focus on two drains - Kushak drain and Sunheri Pul drain before the monsoon. The court was informed that …
BHUBANESWAR: Even as the World No Tobacco Day was observed all across on Thursday, there are efforts to achieve the goal of making Cuttack and Khurda districts smoke-free. Both the districts are among the select few in the country to have been included under the National Tobacco Control Programme (NTCP). …
CUTTACK/BHUBANESWAR: A hailstorm hit the Millennium City on Monday afternoon bringing relief from the sweltering weather. But it caused widespread damage uprooting trees and utility poles and snapping power connections in many parts. Wind gusts accompanied by hail and rain ripped through the City at around 5 pm. The cloudburst …
BHUBANESWAR: The gruelling heatwave claimed nine more lives in Odisha on Saturday as day temperature soared across the State. The official death toll jumped from 10 to 19 on a single day. Such has been the impact of the scorching conditions that even Malkangiri, Odisha’s southernmost district, faced the heat. …
Kendrapada: The World Bank authorities have expressed displeasure over the inordinate delay in handover of the roadside land required for widening of the 106-KM long Cuttack-Chandballi State Highway in state, official sources said. The funding agency has refused to start road widening work for the Rs 800 crore worth State …
BHUBANESWAR: The State Government has started moves to establish a Directorate of Radiation Safety to regulate the functioning of medical diagnostic radiology facilities like X-ray units mushrooming in cities and towns. The directorate would take over the responsibility of monitoring the radiology facilities from the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB), …
BHUBANESWAR: Even as sewerage and drainage projects of Cuttack and Bhubaneswar planned under the Integrated Sanitation Improvement Programme, are scheduled to be completed in two years, the work is very sluggish. Chief Secretary Bijay Kumar Patnaik reviewed the progress of the externally- aided projects at a high-level meeting here recently. …
Move to ease pricing pressure on ferrochrome and stainless steel players. Beginning second quarter, Odisha's state-owned mining firm will e-auction chrome, an ore essential to make stainless steel. By resorting to auctions, Orissa Mining Corporation is preempting a similar move for iron ore linkages, but more immediately addressing a long …
BHUBANESWAR: In a major haul, forest sleuths seized at least nine truck loads of timber from an illegally running depot-cum-carpentry unit in Deulasahi near Bidanasi area of Cuttack in the wee hours of Wednesday. The value of the seized timber could run into ` 12 lakh. Acting on a tip …
BHUBANESWAR: The State Government has prepared draft amendment to make provisions under the Orissa Prevention of Land Encroachment (OPLE) Act, 1972, more stringent. The draft amendment is done on the lines of laws framed by Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh governments and the proposed amendment suggests collection of hefty rent from …
Cuttack: The Odisha High Court has completed hearing on a PIL that has challenged the alleged unauthorised constructions on the Mahanadi islet at Hadiapatha here for the purpose of an intake well that would facilitate supply of water for the Indian Oil Corporation’s (IOC) oil refinery in Paradip. The Division …
Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government on Monday said that it has already set up five temporary shelters for homeless people in three cities and was looking for sponsors for building permanent shelter homes in the state. Replying to a question on a report of the Supreme Court's commissioners, chief secretary Bijay …
CUTTACK: Even as the denizens of the millennium city continue to writhe under the sting of a severe mosquito menace, the use of larvicide is now at the centre of a tussle between the civic administration and the State Health department. While the Cuttack Municipal Corporation (CMC) has trained its …
BHUBANESWAR: The State Government declared 17 of the 30 districts as drought-affected on Thursday. The announcement comes a day after Opposition Congress and BJP slammed the BJD Government for the alleged delay in providing assistance to the affected farmers. The decision was taken after receiving reports on possible crop loss …
CUTTACK: City-dwellers woke up to roads littered with remnants of crackers and pungent air with harmful chemicals on Thursday, the morning after Diwali, with civic body authorities admitting to around 25 to 35 per cent surge in the quantity of solid waste produced on the auspicious day. With some waste-lifting …
Bhubanewsar The Orissa government on Thursday submitted a memorandum to the central government seeking financial assistance of R2,120.92 crore for relief and rehabilitation in flood affected areas of the state. The state special relief commissioner (SRC), Pradipta Mohapatra, said that the memorandum, which was sent to New Delhi by a …
The Orissa government on Sunday started airdropping of relief materials in the flood marooned in Puri district, even as the official death toll in the current high flood reached 16. Over a dozen people who were swept away in the strong current are yet to be traced. Sonepur, Kendrapara, Jagatsinghpur, …
Bhubaneswar: With 11 districts put on high alert for the possible high floods, particularly in the Mahanadi delta system, chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Thursday took stock of the situation at an emergency meeting at the State Secretariat here. Expressing grave concern over the situation, Patnaik asked the district collectors …
The total number of the dengue affected list in Odisha rose to 912 on Tuesday. According to non-official sources, 26 persons have died so far of the deadly virus. On Tuesday, 187 samples were tested in SCB Medical College and Hospital in Cuttack, Capital Hospital in Bhubanswar and VSS Medical …
BHUBANESWAR: The State Government on Monday geared up its machinery to tackle drought-like situation in more than 30 blocks in eight districts. Scanty rainfall has affected kharif crop in some pockets of 15 districts in the State while the situation is alarming in the 30 blocks, according to preliminary reports …
Tata BP Solar India, a joint venture of Tata Power and BP Solar, on Monday said it has commissioned its first 1 MW solar photovoltaic power plant in Orissa under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM). The project, owned and developed by S N Mohanty at Cuttack in Orissa, …
