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 …
ROURKELA: The minimum temperature rose in Sundargarh district but remained below the 10 degree Celsius mark today thus continuing with the chill factor. The district recorded a minimum temperature of 7.9 degrees and a maximum of 27.5 degree Celsius. The Steel City on Sunday recorded the lowest ever temperature of …
At least six workers and two senior officers of Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) in Orissa's Sundergarh district fell ill on Sunday following leakage of toxic gas in one of its blast furnaces. The affected persons were immediately admitted to the Ispat General Hospital at Rourkela. While four of them were …
BHUBANESWAR: The State Level Single Window Clearance Authority (SLSWCA) today approved 16 projects, including 10 new ones, with proposed investment of Rs 30,000 crore to keep the process of industrialisation rolling. The projects once completed will generate employment to 47,000 people. Chief Secretary TK Mishra presided over the meeting of …
ROURKELA: The Sundargargh district officials recently ordered closure of 41 mines for lacking statutory clearance. The affected mines owners have protested the decision on the ground that hundreds of workers will be rendered jobless. Sources said as many as 16 iron-ore and manganese mines under the jurisdiction of Deputy Director …
BHUBANESWAR: With the multi-crore mining scam likely to raise storm in the Assembly tomorrow, the State Government has suspended operation in 128 mines located in the districts. Official sources said suspension of mining activities in 128 mines has been ordered mostly for violation of laws under forest and environment clearance …
Debabrata Mohanty Probing allegations of a multi-crore mining scandal, the Orissa government has ordered suspension of work at 64 iron ore, manganese ore and limestone mines whose operators have failed to provide proof of legal mining activity. It is learnt that leases of all these mines ran out long ago …
BHUBANESAR / ROURKELA: There are two baffling facts about the way the H1N1 virus has cut loose in the tribal-dominated Sundargarh district, none of which has actually been attended to by the health administration as yet. A good eight days after the first two positive cases of H1N1 were reported …
BHUBANESWAR: Intriguing as it may sound, the H1N1 virus has unleashed itself in a remote pocket of tribal district of Sundargarh with little or no known exposure to outside world. Six days after the Jampali Kanyashram threw up two positive cases, the Health Department is still at its wit
Aurobinda Das | Rourkela The State Pollution Board and Mining Department generally issue mining lease to an applicant only after getting the nod of the Union Forests and Environment Ministry. Moreover, the Revenue Department calculates and specifies the area according to the map of mines and forest areas and accordingly …
BHUBANESWAR: With H1N1 gripping a tribal residential school in a remote part of Sundargarh, the Health administration was clueless as to how the inmates contracted the virus. The possibility of a community spread of the disease loomed large. More than half the inmates of the all-girl residential school at Jamapali …
Satyasundar Barik BHUBANESWAR: This was the last thing that the Orissa government needed. Swine flu scare which has so far been limited to urban centres of the State has now surfaced in rural region. Two suspected swine flu affected students staying in a tribal residential school in Sundargarh district have …
This study analyses the diverse positive and negative impacts that coal mining has on the livelihoods of local communities of the Ib valley coalfield in Orissa. Using the sustainable livelihoods framework, it shows that coal mining, which is a form of physical capital, contributes to the enhancement of financial capital. …
ROURKELA: Even as the harvesting time is nearing, over 1.66 lakh medium and marginal farmers in the tribal-dominated Sundargarh district are staring at bleak time. As per official reports, all 262 gram panchayats and 17 blocks have been affected by water-stress condition with the district receiving 29 per cent less …
BHUBANESWAR: Even as the Vigilance Department of the State government conducted raids at several places in the course of their investigation into the multi-crore mining scam on Wednesday, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) staged a demonstration here demanding that the probe into the scam should be carried out at …
BHUBANESWAR: While the multi-crore mining scam is unfolding everyday, national BJP president Rajnath Singh today deputed a party delegation to visit the mines-rich Keonjhar and Sundargarh districts to assess the illegal mining. A delegation of the State BJP comprising Bijay Mahapatra, Dharmendra Pradhan, Rudranarayan Pani and Jatin Mohanty today met …
BHUBANESWAR: The State Government will finalise the elephant corridor management plan in the next six months. This was decided at a high-level meeting presided over by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik at the Secretariat here today. The plan will emphasise on saving the elephants and their habitats from the human encroachments …
