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 …
More than 40,000 Jhodias, the 'principal tribe' of Orissa's Kashipur, find themselves disenfranchised for reason's nobody's willing to admit or accept.
BHUBANESWAR: ALARMED by the high childhood mortality, the Regional Medical Research Centre (RMRC) has proposed to its parent body, the Indian Council of Medical Research, to establish a surveillance centre in the State for screening of Haemophilus influenzae b (Hib), one of the biggest child killers in Orissa. With the …
BHUBANESWAR: After Rayagada district, diarrhoea has struck Cuttack. At least 53 inhabitants of a village under Narasinghpur block are found suffering from the disease in the last five days prompting Health Department to send a medical team to keep a watch on the situation. All cases came from Baselihata village …
Paper industry generates green house gases in many stage of its operations; there is scope for implementation of CDM project preferably in forestry sector. JKPL's A/R CDM project under LULUCF category aims to GHG mitigation and sell emission reductions earned through carbon sequestration in the established agro-forestry plantations. JKPL, Rayagada …
Last fortnight, the Supreme Court agreed allegations of misappropriation of NREGS funds in Orissa are not without basis. Debabrata Mohanty tracks the scheme and the controversy it is in: FACT HUNT In May-June 2007, the Centre for Environment and Food Security (CEFS) surveyed how an MGNREGS programme was being carried …
BHUBANESWAR: Despite the enormity of waterborne epidemics in Orissa, figures don't add up to suggest any encouraging trend on sanitation front. As of August 2010, the State has been able to construct over 30 lakh individual household toilets. But the total requirement is around 71 lakh. The pace has been …
Contaminated water sources and the virtual absence of health care claim dozens of lives in the State, now in the grip of cholera. COME monsoon and the backward regions of Orissa are in the grip of water-borne diseases. This year too has been no different. According to official figures, 150 …
Contaminated water sources and the virtual absence of health care claim dozens of lives in the State, now in the grip of cholera. COME monsoon and the backward regions of Orissa are in the grip of water-borne diseases. This year too has been no different. According to official figures, 150 …
Bhubaneswar: The Union Cabinet Committee on Infrastructure (CCI) on Tuesday approved improvement of the balance 600-km of State Roads in order to develop, in a phased manner, the entire 1,632-km-long Maoist-dominated Vijayawada-Ranchi corridor at an estimated cost of Rs 1,200 crore. The project, which would be completed in next three …
ON August 24, Jairam Ramesh, Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests, uploaded on the Ministry's website the text of his detailed decision rejecting the application from Vedanta Resources for forest clearance to start bauxite mining in Orissa's Niyamgiri hills. The decision is a rare instance of how the …
MALKANGIRI: Diarrhoea has claimed nine lives since last month in Podia panchayat here. Its outbreak in the district has become a major concern for the State government which has been facing criticism from the Opposition Congress for failure to provide adequate health facilities in the epidemic zone of Rayagada. In …
Rayagada: Health minister Prasanna Acharya on Tuesday visited the cholera-affected pockets in Rayagada district even as two more deaths were reported from Kalyansinghpur village under Kashipur block taking the toll at 68. The minister, accompanied by health secretary Anu Garg, visited a few cholera-hit villages and supervised the emergency relief …
BHUBANESWAR: President of the Orissa Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC) KP Singhdeo has requested the Centre to issue a statement assuring the people of the State that there will be no loss for Orissa because of the Polavaram project. Singhdeo today met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in Delhi and discussed the …
RAYAGADA/MALKANGIRI: Even as Health Minister Prasanna Acharya and Secretary Anu Garg accompanied by the Southern Division RDC CS Kumar and Rayagada Collector Nitin Bhanudas Jawale visited the worst-affected Lakapai village under Kalyansinghpur block this afternoon, the situation is far from better. There is no primary health centre neither in the …
The recent order by National Environment Appellate Authority on granting environmental clearance to Lanjigarh bauxite mining project of Orissa Mining Corporation in Kalahandi and Rayagada districts of Orissa. Order by the National Environment Appellate Authority, New Delhi on granting environmental clearance to Lanjigarh bauxite mining project of M/s The Orissa …
Few committees have been as forthright as the N C Saxena Committee on the violation of the Forest Rights Act (FRA) by the very authorities which are charged with upholding them—the state governments. In its report on the controversial project to mine for bauxite in the Niyamgiri Hills, the four …
