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-MK Singh
Malkangiri/Sukma: The recent killing of a Maoist by civilians in a remote village of Malkangiri district of Odisha speaks largely about the loosing grip of the Reds and their domination in the jungles of Odisha.
Once known as the hotbeds of the Red Corridor of India, Naxals are Malkangiri as...
BY-BASUDEV MAHAPATRA
In villages in Odisha, tribal communities have returned to indigenous varieties of seeds which yield crops that are better suited to the impacts of the changing climate.
In order to ensure more yield, the government provides high yielding variety seeds to the farmers. But, after a short...
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-BASUDEV MAHAPATRA
Since the first teak plantation by the British in Kerala in 1842, almost all states of India have carried out teak plantation in the forests under different schemes to create or convert the existing forests into high-value timber-based forests.
The teak forests are threatening the survival and...
By- Mayank Aggarwal
Severe protests from the villagers had led to the South Korean steel major POSCO abandoning its project in Odisha involving Rs 500 billion (Rs 50,000 crore) worth of investment. The forest clearance to the project was transferred last year to JSW Utkal Steel Limited.
However, the people...
By-MK Singh
Ganjam (Odisha): The coastal district of Ganjam in Odisha is considered as a hub for outward migration where lakhs of unskilled Odia labourers migrate often to Gujarat, Maharashtra and others in search of jobs. Marred by the lack of high-paying jobs and industries in the state, many from...
By-Sonali Singh
Bhubaneswar, Jan 30: With glaring neglect of the Odisha Health Department and several senior bureaucrats, leprosy health care in the state is passing through tough times. At a time when the deformity rates and rate of new leprosy infections are rising, massive vacancy of specialized health workers and...
By-Sonali Singh
Bhubaneswar, Mar 4: When the ambitious Swachh Bharat Mission was launched by the Union government way back on October 2, 2014 to target the practice of open defecation in the country Odisha had a bad track record and one among the few states in the country with the...
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...