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 …
Here is an advantage for Odisha. Now, the State Government can charge a 10-per cent royalty on iron ore basing on the market value of the mineral. Instead of requesting the Centre to raise the rate of royalty, the State Government can now achieve the goal with all respect and …
Bhubaneswar: With Space Based Information Support for Decentralized Planning (SIS-DSP), a new space-based technology providing useful data, the Odisha government has planned to use it for micro-level planning and monitoring. The new technique has been able to create large-scale GIS data on land cover, settlements, soil, slope, water sources, road …
Grout material in recent years has made quantum advancement and researchers have made this material more application friendly. Grouts are finding increasing applications for checking seepage under dams and in repair work for old dams.
BHUBANESWAR/JAJPUR: With flood situation in four North Orissa districts remaining grim, the State Government on Saturday started air-dropping of food packets as 992 villages continued to be marooned for the second consecutive day. Meanwhile, six persons died and another went missing in flood waters. While two persons died in Jajpur …
The major flood in rivers Brahmani and Baitarani has affected more than 20 lakh people in 10 districts of Orissa while many areas in the worst-affected Jajpur district have remained cut off. Special Relief Commissioner's office said 17 persons died, mostly drowned, some of snakebite and in wall collapse — …
Panel to fix extraction quota. Barely a month and half after the Supreme Court banned iron ore mining in Bellary region of Karnataka on environmental grounds, the Orissa government has pulled its socks to regulate the mineral exploitation business in the state citing similar concerns. “It has come to the …
Bhubaneswar: In a fresh step towards increasing productivity of poor, the Odisha government has decided to implement Integrated Watershed Management Projects in backward districts along with the 14 IAP (Integrated Action Plan) Districts. Action plan for this has been prepared at a high level meeting held here recently, official sources …
A report from a sample survey of the functioning of the public distribution system in 12 villages in two districts in Orissa, a state usually associated with a poor PDS. While there are errors in exclusion and inclusion of households covered, there has been a vast improvement in operation of …
Bhubaneswar: Under attack for failing to take steps to stop illegal mining, the Odisha government has decided to undertake survey at two mining circles spread over Keonjhar and Sundargarh districts, official sources said. The actual survey work using scientific modalities will be carried out in Joda mining circle in Keonjhar …
ROURKELA: His 19 acres of farmland lies waste as the rapidly increasing mining activities in mineral-rich Koira block of Sundargarh district has ensured that Sudarshan Patra (32) works in the mines and not in the field. Patra of the interior Raikela village under Dengula panchayat is among the long list …
Bhubaneswar: Dengue has claimed two lives and affected 29 others in the state, official sources said on Sunday. While Bunesh Samant (34) of Nuahata village died at a private hospital here, Narahari Pradhan (32) of Langarakata died at Talcher on Saturday, the sources said. Both the victims were working in …
BHUBANESWAR: The State Government has formed a Task Force of medical experts for surveillance and initiation of control measures in view of the recent increase in dengue cases in different districts. The Government is also set to equip more hospitals at the district level with facilities for testing and diagnosis …
Bhubaneswar: The Supreme Court on Friday adjourned hearing on dispute on allocation of iron ore mines in 2,500 hectares in the Khandadhar hills in Odisha to South Korean steel major Posco, which has proposed to set up 12mtpa steel plant at an investment of Rs 52,000 crore near Paradip in …
The Khandadhar waterfalls is a favourite picnic destination of many college students in Odisha. But it may soon be a pleasure of the past. The falls spring out from the Khandadhar hills that are home to 69 working sponge iron units. And with more than 150 mining projects approved, the …
ROURKELA: Amid continuing environmental fear, the Sundargarh administration is waiting for the lab test report to ascertain if the water of the river Brahmani was polluted due to accidental release of fly ash. Due to heavy downpour on Thursday night, a large amount of fly ash deposited at the slag …
On the morning of June 13, 2011, Sukhdev Sahoo of Nuagaon in Odisha’s Jagatsinghpur district woke up in horror. The state administration had demolished his betel farm. The betel vines were in the way of India’s largest foreign direct investment: the US $12 billion POSCO project. Sahoo was threatened: “If …
POSCO’S steel plant project in Odisha may get stalled again. As the state resumes acquiring land for the country’s largest foreign direct investment project—US $12 billion—it faces a fresh litigation and mounting protests. Communities refuse to part with forest in the mining area and river water for the South Korean …
June 11 saw 2,000 residents of Dhinkia and Govindapur—including women and children—prostrating on the scorching 45ºC degree sand, as 800 policemen stood alert trying to enter the proposed POSCO sites to acquire forestland. The villagers were protesting the land acquisition for the POSCO plant which resumed on May 18, 2011, …
With the death of two more children due to chicken pox with dysentery today, the toll rose to five at Barsuna and nearby areas in Sundargarh district during the past ten days, official sources said. Earlier three deaths, mostly of children below three years of age, were reported from the …
ROURKELA: A severe heat wave hit Sundargarh district with temperature soaring to 43.5 degree Celsius on Thursday at Sundargarh town. Rourkela city, about 100 km from Sundargarh, was a little cooler at 42.8 degree C. Mercury surged upward in the past couple of days leaving the citizens distressed. Fortunately, no …
