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 …
The Animal Resources Development Department, along with the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation, on Sunday commenced the culling of poultry birds at the Central Poultry Development Organisation (CPDO) in Bhubaneswar following the advisory from the Union Agriculture Ministry to prevent the spread of the avian influenza (H5N1) virus. On the first day, …
Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Electricity Regulatory Commission (OERC) has refused to change cross-subsidy norms for 2010-11 and 2011-12 that would have favoured industrial power consumers, saying, it will not be possible at the moment as such a move would lead to change in electricity tariff structure, a matter of sub-judice now. …
BHUBANESWAR: The number of Irrawaddy dolphins in Chilika has dropped to 145 from an estimated 156 last year and 158 in 2010, according to the latest census data. Dolphin census was conducted in the brackish water lake on Monday and Tuesday. Chilika, a Ramsar site (i.e. a wetland of international …
BHUBANESWAR: Finance Minister Prafulla Chandra Ghadei on Monday started the pre-budget consultation process before finalising the State budget for 2012-13. Though experts are of the opinion that the State’s economy has improved over the years, they disapproved of the subsidy on different schemes announced by the Government. Several experts at …
BHUBANESWAR: The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) on Thursday announced a credit plan of Rs 30,000 crore for the State for 2012-13. Last year the Bank had made a credit plan of Rs 25,000 crore. NABARD’s Chief General Manager (CGM), Odisha Circle, K K Gupta, said that …
Bhubaneswar: Bird flu was detected for the first time in Odisha as the central laboratory confirmed the virus in two dead fowls in Khurda district, official sources said on Monday. The Centre on Sunday communicated to the state about the detection of H5N1 virus in two dead poultry found in …
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 …
Bhubaneswar: Prime minister Manmohan Singh will inaugurate the 99th Indian Science Congress here on Tuesday during which scientists will deliberate on issues like climate change, food security, clean energy and space technology. The theme of this year's Science Congress is 'Science and Technology for Inclusive Innovation - Role of Women' …
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will inaugurate the 99th Indian Science Congress here on Tuesday, during which scientists will deliberate issues such as climate change, food security, clean energy and space technology. The theme of this year’s Congress is ‘Science and Technology for Inclusive Innovation — Role of Women’ and will …
BHUBANESWAR: The State Cabinet on Tuesday resolved to move the Centre to levy mineral resource rent tax on iron ore to be charged at 50 per cent of the surplus rent. It was decided that the tax so collected should come to the State Government for improving social and physical …
BHUBANESWAR: Calling for an increase in agricultural productivity, profitability and sustainability to provide food and nutritional security to masses, experts at the 31st convocation of Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology (OUAT) on Saturday stressed a sound extension programme for technological empowerment of the farmers, rural youth and women. Varsity …
The Centre-appointed Shah Commission, led by former Supreme Court judge Justice M B Shah today said that the mining scam in Orissa could not have happened without the connivance of bureaucrats even as Opposition parties and activists raised the demand for a CBI probe. Ending his four-day tour to the …
BHUBANESWAR: As the panchayat elections are on the threshold, the Naveen Patnaik Government seems to have gone into a overdrive. Scheme after scheme; package after package, there is no end to playing to the gallery. The latest is a Rs 2-a-kg rice scheme for the marine fishermen community. With the …
The state steel and mines department continued to be on the edge a day before the Centre-appointed Justice M B Shah Commission probing the illegal mining activities in different parts of the country lands here to inquire into Orissa mining scam. Ahead of the commission’s visit to Bhubaneswar today, the …
BHUBANESWAR: With the World AIDS Day theme of ‘Getting to Zero’, the State Government on Thursday started a number of initiatives to meet the goal of “zero new HIV infections, zero discrimination and zero AIDS-related deaths” in the State. At a function organised to mark the event, Health and Family …
Bhubaneswar: Expressing grave concern over the inordinate delay in sanction and release of flood assistance, chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Friday urged Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee to intervene in the matter to consider the state's claim and make the aid available early. In a letter, Patnaik requested Mukherjee to …
BHUBANESWAR: Chief Secretary BK Patnaik on Tuesday asked various departments to explore the possibility of using fly ash as a sub-base material for construction of roads and land development to enhance their productive use. Presiding over a meeting on formulation of guidelines for utilization of fly-ash, the Chief Secretary said …
Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government on Monday started the socio-economic and caste census-2011 to identify the Below-Poverty-Line families in seven out of 30 districts in the first phase. The fresh BPL survey in the state was taken up under the Central guideline to ascertain the real poorest-of-the-poor families as the Planning …
BHUBANESWAR: The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) has set its sights on Orissa to make it a hub of groundnut production. The premier agency has said it is focussing its seed and technological research to tap the unexplored resources of groundnut production in the State. The groundnut productivity in …
BHUBANESWAR: The State Government is mulling extension of the Orissa Forestry Sector Development Project (OFSDP) which is currently implemented in 10 districts. The OFSDP is being implemented with assistance from Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). The project started in 2006-07 and is slated to end in 2012-13. However, the Forest …
