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 …
Indian Air Force chopper dropping food packets for the marooned in Jagatsinghpur district on Monday (Below) A view of flooded areas in Cuttack districExpress News Service 23 Sep 2008 09:50:00 AM IST BHUBANESWAR: Their number has swelled. So has their misery. There was no let-up in the hardship of the …
DESPERATE EFFORT: A villager holds on to a telephone post while trying to collect floating sticks to be used for cooking, at the Naraj barrage on the Kathjodi river in Cuttack on Friday. BHUBANESWAR: Over six lakh people were affected in different parts of Orissa following floods in the Mahanadi …
BHUBANESWAR: A division bench of the Orissa High Court (HC) today issued notices to the State Government and Cuttack Municipal Corporation and asked them to file counters on the distribution of BPL ration cards to the identified persons. The bench, comprising Chief Justice BS Chauhan and Justice BN Mohapatra, was …
As floods wreak havoc in the State with an unrelenting frequency every year, the Orissa Government is busy strengthening its search and rescue power. Besides carrying out a boat census across 24 districts, it too is preparing a directory of the vessels so as to be in readiness when the …
CUTTACK: Even as non-inclusion of Hepatitis B in the national immunisation programmes by the Government continues to rankle campaigners against the killer disease, an amazingly low level of awareness or negligent attitude among the medical personnel has emerged as a major concern. Awareness on Hep-B is very poor among the …
CUTTACK: The Orissa High Court on Wednesday directed the authorities concerned not to fell trees or alienate any land, particularly from sanctuaries, national parks, bio-spheres (reserved area) by issuing pattas or by any other means of alienation. A division bench of the High Court comprising Justice I.M. Quddushi and Justice …
High food prices have driven inflation to new highs, leading the Centre to clamp down on export of farm commodities. But have the high retail prices in any way benefited the farmers? How has their lot improved from the spiralling food inflation? Business Standard takes stock of the situation in …
Ansupa Lake, one of the two freshwater lakes found in Orissa, is vanishing slowly. Another freshwater lake, i.e. named Saro, in Puri District, has already been wiped out from the wetland maps of Orissa due to anthropogenic pressure. (Correspondence)
Based on primary source material, this paper unravels the undermining of development of vital transport infrastructure in Orissa, namely, Paradeep port and a proposed railway line for exploiting the rich mineral resources of the state
