Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Dr. Bibhu Dash & Others Vs Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation & Others dated 05/02/2024. The affidavit of the Odisha State Pollution Control Board stated that the STP cannot be constructed because the sewage outflow of Manorama Estates Welfare Society to their …
BHUBANESWAR: The State Government has set a target to provide Rs 5,000 crore short-term credit to the farmers in the ensuing financial year. Replying to the demand for grants for Cooperation Department on behalf of Cooperation Minister Prafulla Samal, Forest and Environment Minister Debi Prasad Mishra said Rs 3,970 crore …
BHUBANESWAR: A team of scientists from Japan arrived here on Monday to study the migratory behaviour of the threatened Irrawaddy dolphins in Chilika lagoon. One of the less-studied cetacean species, Irrawaddy dolphins’ dropping numbers in the brackish water lagoon had prompted Chilika Development Authority to set up a permanent station …
BHUBANESWAR: Land, which the State Government wanted to acquire for a sub-minor canal project on the outskirts of the Capital, was sold out in no time and mutation carried out in a day. Startling, but it has come to the notice of Revenue and Disaster Management Department which has asked …
BHUBANESWAR: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday demanded early revival of the Talcher plant of the Fertiliser Corporation of India Limited (FCIL). In a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the Chief Minister said the important matter has been pending for long. He requested Singh to take immediate steps for …
BHUBANESWAR: Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation has earmarked ` 100 crore for roads and drainage repair for the fiscal 2012-13. BMC’s budget for 2012-13 fiscal was placed before the corporators and BMC officials on Saturday. In view of the dismal condition of the roads in the city, a major part of the …
BHUBANESWAR: ArcellorMittal which has proposed to set up 12 million tonne steel plant in Keonjhar district is yet to submit the detailed project report (DPR) to the State Government because of delay in land acquisition. Steel and Mines Minister Raghunath Mohanty informed this to the members while replying to a …
BHUBANESWAR: The Odisha State Pollution Control Board (OSPCB) has slapped Rs 13.77 crore penalty on Hindalco for unauthorised sale and inept handling of anode butts which are generated as waste from the company’s Hirakud plant. Invoking the ‘Polluter Pays’ principle, the Board penalised the Aditya Birla Group-owned company for violation …
Bhubaneswar: The capital city recorded the highest temperature in the country with over 40 degree Celsius on Sunday. The state, apprehending worse to happen in the coming days, has now started bracing up for a cruel summer. With temperatures having risen swiftly across the state in the last few days, …
Bhubaneswar: Amid boycott by the Opposition Congress of governor's address to Odisha Assembly alleging assault on democracy and Constitution during Panchayat polls, the state government on Tuesday projected an outlay of Rs one lakh crore for the 12th five-year-plan for 2012-17. As soon as governor M C Bhandare began his …
BHUBANESWAR: In spite of the City Health Office (CHO) under Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation’s (BMC) round-the-clock efforts to combat mosquito menace, there has been no significant decrease in the mosquito density. Recently, there was a fear of dengue outbreak here, but no positive cases have been found yet. The mosquito density …
While the Union Government gets ready to prepare and implement the national River Regulation Zone (RRZ) notification to prevent encroachments along the rivers and floodplains, it should issue an ordinance under the Environment Protection Act (EPA), 1986, making any such act illegal and punishable, the Yamuna Jiye Abhiyaan, a non-government …
Bhubaneswar: The CBI has placed before the Supreme Court its report on the investigation into alleged corruption in utilisation of Central funds by six districts of Odisha for the rural job guarantee scheme under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) scheme. The report in a sealed cover was …
BHUBANESWAR: Even as use of polythene bags of below 40 micron were banned in the city last year, implementation of the ban is far from satisfactory with a large number of shopkeepers still using them. Not just polythene bags, the ban is applicable to gutka sachets as well. As per …
BHUBANESWAR: After the Central Poultry Development Organisation (CPDO) and OUAT, the culling operations were conducted in the wards under the impact zone demarcated for the bird flu prevention and control measures. Eight teams were fanned out to around eight of the 29 wards, where culling is to be undertaken. They …
Members of Rapid Response Teams (RRTs), engaged in the culling of poultry birds, on Monday faced an embarrassing situation in Bhubaneswar. As they approached households in slums to collect birds to ward off the spread of the avian influenza, they found all houses locked. Frustrated, the RRTs returned emptied handed. …
BHUBANESWAR: The two-day seminar on “Emerging trends in food production and safety” that concluded here on Sunday strongly urged the State Government to implement the Food Safety Act and post a senior officer as Food Safety Commissioner. An officer, not less than the rank of Secretary, should be posted as …
Samples sent from CPDO test positive for avian influenza Members of Rapid Response Teams in association with personnel of Central Poultry Development Organisation (CPDO) culled nearly 20,000 poultry birds on Sunday. The culling operation became essential after Bhopal based High Security Animal Disease Laboratory (HSADL) confirmed that samples of birds …
BHUBANESWAR: With the Central advisory in hand, the Odisha Government on Saturday gave a go-ahead to culling of poultry birds in 3-km radius of the Central Poultry Development Organisation (CPDO) here, where the avian influenza was detected yesterday. At the same time, culling will also be taken up at the …
BHUBANESWAR: With culling beginning from Sunday, almost half of the City’s central business hub would come under the no-poultry zone for at least three months. Since Central Poultry Development Organisation (CPDO) is the epicentre of the outbreak, a 3-km radius area stretching from Station Square to Baramunda and from Satsang …
