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 …
Surging waters from a swollen Mahanadi and its tributaries continued to wreak havoc in Orissa, affecting more than 2,800 villages in 19 districts and leaving 16 dead as the Naveen Patnaik government Sunday sought central funds for relief. The flood has so far affected over 13 lakh people, most of …
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 …
BALASORE: Just 100 metres from the sea, they dread the hungry tidal waves. Gokul Jena with his six-member family in Chandrabali village in Bhogarai block panics every minute. Around 200 people belonging to 35 families in the village are living in the fear of losing their home and hearth as …
Kendrapada: Work on is on to save a vulnerable coastal embankment, where cracks have appeared, protecting a cluster of thickly-populated human settlement from tidal waves in coastal Kendrapada district. Cracks appeared in the 700-metre-long embankment on August 29-30 when mighty tidal waves smashed the Pentha coast in Rajnagar Tehsil. The …
BERHAMPUR: Along with the rain, sea waves have again posed threat to villages on the Ganjam district coast. During last two days, two coastal villages witnessed the fury of catabolic action of sea waves. Arjyapalli and Podempeta in Chatrapur block of the district are inhabited by fishermen. On Monday night, …
KENDRAPARA: Fisherwomen in the coastal districts of Kendrapara and Jagatsinghpur toil hard to make the ends meet. Scores of them make their way to the fish markets in Chapali, Marsaghai, Kujang , Erasama, Paradip and other areas with a common agenda, dispose of the day’s catch. With what could only …
The paper examines whether the mangrove forests in Kendrapada district of Orissa played any protective role during the severe cyclone that hit the state in October 1999. Using data on human casualties and damages suffered by the houses as dependent variables, and different meteorological, geophysical and socio-economic factors as independent …
PARADIP: The activists of Posco Pratirodha Sangram Samiti, the organisation spearheading anti-Posco movement, demonstrated at Balitutha on Friday ahead of Union Forest and Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh visit to Bhitarkanika. They have been staking their claim under Forest Rights Act and demanding withdrawal of conditional forest clearance to Posco project. …
BHUBANESWAR: Three persons died and another was injured as a high-velocity hailstorm hit coastal Orissa today uprooting trees and utility poles and flattening houses. A 53-year-old woman, identified as Bilasini Nayak, was killed when an uprooted tree fell on her in Gop area of Puri district. An eight-year-old girl died …
An estimated 3.60 lakh Olive Ridley sea turtles have arrived for mass nesting this year at the tranquil Nasi II (South Nasi) beach of the Gahirmatha Marine Sanctuary, according to stated DFO of Rajnagar Mangrove Forest and Wildlife Division, Manoj Kumar Mohapatra. The arribada phenomenon of the endangered turtles occurred …
KENDRAPARA: As many as 1,654 estuarine crocodiles, including four crocodiles measuring more than 20 feet, were sighted by the forest officials in the water bodies at Bhitarkanika National Park during the recent census. DFO of the Park Manoj Kumar Mohapatra said the recent census report indicates that the population of …
BHUBANESWAR: The State Government has decided to shift all the 700 families of Satabhaya village in Rajnagar block of Kendrapara district within the next three months because of sea erosion. All the families will be rehabilitated at Bagapatia near Gupti in the same district. Chief Secretary Bijay Kumar Patnaik reviewed …
Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government on Thursday issued a high alert to six coastal districts over a depression in the Bay of Bengal which is likely to intensify further and make landfall tomorrow. The alert was issued in the districts of Ganjam, Puri, Jagatsinghpur, Kendrapada, Bhadrak and Balasore, while others were …
KENDRAPARA: Panic gripped seaside villages in Kendrapara and Jagatsinghpur districts with tidal waves lashing the villages from Wednesday causing extensive damage to agricultural land in a couple of blocks. In Keruapala village under Rangani gram panchayat in Rajnagar block a sluice gate collapsed on Thursday, as a result about 4,000 …
KENDRAPARA: WHEN Santosh Mandal built his house in seaside Suniti village under Mahakalapada block three decades back, he sunk a tube well for water. He struck clean water barely at 10 feet depth. Today, water in the tubewell has gone below 70 feet. It is more or less the same …
KENDRAPARA: The crusade against illegal prawn farming is making inroads into seaside villages of Mahakalapada block. In the last two years, the forest and district officials have demolished 1,252 hectares out of the 2,529 hectares being used for prawn farming, said Prasanna Kumar Behera, the divisional forest officer of Bhitarkanika …
CUTTACK: The Mahandi Banchao Andolan against diversion of water from the Mahanadi river to industries on Friday transformed into a full blown agitation with people from across the districts of Cuttack, Jagatsinghpur, Kendrapara and Puri converging here to launch the movement. More than 3,000 people, mainly farmers from the areas …
KENDRAPARA: Basanti Jena of Rankal village here earns Rs 130 by selling 10 litres milk everyday. But life was not the same for her five years back as the same business fetched her a paltry sum. Her fortune got a boost with the setting up of Karandia milk production centre …
KENDRAPARA: About 50 saltwater crocodile nests have been spotted near the creeks, nullahs and river system under Bhitarkanika National Park by the forest officials, during the ongoing nesting season. Forest officials spotted at least 50 nesting sites and about 5060 eggs were sighted in each site. The eggs will hatch …
