Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Chennai Citizen Connect: Captain Cotton Canal nearly choked due to garbage dumping appearing in the DT Next dated 11.05.2025". The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Chennai Citizen Connect: Captain Cotton …
These e-buses are going to operate within the radius of 100 km, covering the cities of Puri, Bhubaneswar and Cuttack. In order to curb the increasing air pollution in the state of Odisha, the state government informed the assembly on Saturday that it is going to introduce electric buses in …
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. …
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 …
CUTTACK: Crackers creating noise above 125 decibel will be strictly banned in Cuttack this Diwali. Police have decided to enforce a complete ban on sale of crackers causing noise pollution in the city. "License will be issued to cracker traders on the condition that they will not sell fire crackers …
The Cuttack Municipal Corporation (CMC) has decided to postpone its first Raahgiri event as the city continues to grapple with dengue fever outbreak. "The CMC had decided to launch the much awaited Rahagiri event in July, and identified the venue for the programme. However, in the wake of the outbreak …
Cuttack, With dengue situation remaining critical here, Cuttack Municipal Corporation (CMC) today issued show cause notice to a newsprint manufacturing unit in Jagatpur Industrial Estate for allegedly causing public nuisance by keeping its premises unhygienic. The number of dengue patients at government-run Sriram Chandra Bhanj Medical College and Hospital crossed …
BHUBANESWAR: Odisha's biggest state-run healthcare facility does not have an effluent treatment plant (ETP), polluting the historic Taladanda Canal, a lifeline for many, flowing through the heart of Cuttack. The Odisha State Pollution Control Board (OSPCB) has served two show-cause notices on the facility, the SCB Medical College and Hospital, …
The Orissa High Court on Monday sought a clarification from the Odisha government on the modalities of evaluation of potential civic bodies in the State for consideration of the central government-sponsored ‘Smart City’. A Division Bench headed by Chief Justice D. H. Waghela sought the clarification while adjudicating a PIL …
BHUBANESWAR: The noise levels near many hospitals — which are silence zones — in major cities of the state have been found to be above the permissible limits during festive seasons, an annual report released by Orissa State Pollution Control Board (OSPCB) revealed. The pollution board has been monitoring noise …
BHUBANESWAR: The state government has asked the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) and Cuttack Municipal Corporation (CMC) to identify sites for multi-level parking in the twin cities. This was recently discussed during the crime review meeting of the home department. "We have finalized two sites at Ashok Nagar near railway station …
The State Government on Thursday decided to nominate five cities for inclusion in the sought-after list of 100 smart cities from across the country. While Capital City Bhubaneswar has emerged top scorer with 70 per cent as per the city challenge guideline prepared by the Ministry of Urban Development (MoUD), …
The state government has prepared an action plan for improvement of sanitation and hygiene during Nabakalebara in Puri. On May 11, the housing and urban development (H&UD;) department sent the 22-page action plan to Puri district officials, including collector for implementation. Cleanliness around Jagannath Temple, on Grand Road and beach …
CUTTACK: Almost a year after the district and civic authorities identified nearly 500 unsafe government and private buildings here, the administration has done precious little to demolish them in the thousand-year-old city - and is thereby waiting for a disaster to happen. Following an earthquake that had shaken Cuttack on …
Bhubaneswar: Housing and Urban Development Minister Pushpendra Singh Deo on Monday told the State Assembly that the Odisha Urban Water Supply Policy-2013 would be implemented from 2015-16 in order to streamline drinking water supply in the State. The Minster informed this while replying to an Adjournment Motion on the spread …
At least 1,000 out of a 4,140 blood samples have tested dengue positive in Orissa, rining alarm bells in the government. At present 115 dengue patients are undergoing treatment at SCB Medical College, Cuttack. Concerned over the alarming situation, state health and family welfare minister Atanu Sabyasachi Nayak held a …
A recent survey by Odisha State Pollution Control Board (OSPCB) found SCB Medical College and Hospital, Cuttack, flouting norms by not segregating biomedical waste despite repeated reminders. If not segregated (different kinds of waste kept in different containers for disposal), biomedical waste can generate toxic chemicals, which pollute the environment. …
Five under treatment at SCB; one dead Till date, 55 persons have tested dengue positive out of 707 blood samples taken in the State, said Health and Family Welfare Minister Atanu Sabyasachi Nayak here on Wednesday. The Minister in a Press release said that only one person died in dengue …
BHUBANESWAR: The state government has engaged IIT-Bhubaneswar to conduct an "impact assessment study" of JNNURM-city bus service in Bhubaneswar, Cuttack and Puri. Though the housing and urban development (H&UD;) department selected the School of Infrastructure of IIT-Bhubaneswar in December, a formal contract was signed last month. "The IIT-Bhubaneswar experts will …
The Comptroller and Auditor General of India chastised regulatory bodies of twin cities of Bhubaneswar and Cuttack for their failure to enforce building norms and directed them to take action against violators. Although Section 91 of the Odisha Development Act provided that the development authorities had the power to demolish …
Scheme aims at ensuring stable and uninterrupted supply of power to consumers in Bhubaneswar and Cuttack The state energy department has secured in-principle nod for its ambitious State Capital Region Improvement in Power System (SCRIPS) scheme planned at an investment of Rs 1,500 crore. The scheme, aiming at ensuring stable …
