by Manish Kumar
Odisha plans to restart bauxite mining on the Mali hill in Koraput district but is facing resistance from local residents.
This resistance has been ongoing for two decades. Environment Clearance for mining on the hill was granted in 2006 but the project stopped functioning after 2014-15.
Bauxite...
By Manish Kumar on 6 November 2020
During the recent auctions of coal blocks, close to 30,000 acres of land in Odisha was put for coal mining auctions.
Of the nine coal blocks put up for auction in Odisha, eight are in Angul district alone which is already facing ill...
By-Sahana Ghosh
Cyclone Nisarga hit the western coast of India on June 3. It comes close on the heels of cyclone Amphan that impacted the eastern coastal states in India.
The extreme weather events that have come to Maharashtra and West Bengal and their coastal capital cities, against the...
By-Soumya Sarkar
The trail of destruction left by Cyclone Amphan in eastern India has once again highlighted inadequacies in dealing with climate disasters that displace millions of people every year.
Despite improvements in early warning systems and disaster response infrastructure, India and other countries in South Asia are still...
Staff Writer@Blink
Bhubaneswar, May 23: The ongoing global health disaster of COVID 19 may also have local consequences on the overall health indicators of Odisha. It is very likely that with the ongoing migrant crisis and lockdown curbs, the nutritional status of lakhs of children in the state may get...
By-Manish Kumar
Public health experts advocate for a long term study to understand the impact on the health of people, water bodies and plants after a gas leak on from an industrial plant in Visakhapatnam on May 7 claimed the lives of at least 12 people.
Preliminary investigations have...
By-Manish Kumar, Sahana Ghosh
Odisha’s two-pronged approach in disaster management has come in handy to tackle the spread of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19). This involves ‘physical infrastructure’ created to assist people during disasters and ‘intellectual infrastructure’ referring to the government’s institutional setups evolved to tackle disasters in a swift...
By-Manish Kumar, Sahana Ghosh
It’s the season for the annual nesting activity of olive ridley turtles in India’s coastal states Odisha and Maharashtra.
This year though, Odisha is witnessing day time nesting after a gap of nearly seven years.
The ongoing lockdown to curb the spread of COVID-19 has had...
By-Rakhi Ghosh
Nayagarh: On an early morning in December, farmers, especially women farmers, moved in a rally, singing and dancing. They were on their way to Gambharikhola, a small remote village in Odisha’s Nayagarh district, passing through hills and lush green forests.
Women farmers from 18 villages gathered in Gambharikhola to...
By-Basudev Mahapatra
Gajapati/Rayagada: Sagarika Raika (21), of Keranga village in Gumma administrative block of Gajapati district works as a cluster coordinator under Odisha’s Integrated District Intervention program (IDI). She has been working towards empowerment of adolescent girls and women for the past four years.
She is popular in the community for...