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
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-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...
TBN bureau, 12/02/24: The Criminal Procedure (Identification) Act of 2022 and the Criminal Procedure (Identification) Rules of 2022, which permit police, prison officials, or anyone else ordered by a judicial or executive magistrate to take "measurements" of people who have been found guilty, arrested, and detained, were not allowed...
The 2018 electoral bonds programme, which permitted anonymous and limitless contributions to political parties on the grounds that it violated voters' right to information, was overturned by a five-judge Supreme Court bench.
TBN 17/02/24 : A constitution bench, led by Chief Justice Dr. D.Y. Chandrachud, and including Justices Sanjiv Khanna,...
TBN, 13/02/24: On Monday, February 12, the Supreme Court dismissed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) alleging that the appointment of Deputy Chief Ministers in multiple states violated Article 14. According to the Court, the Deputy Chief Minister's role was only a title and not more than that of...
By-Atulya Bora, Balakrishna Himirika, Bhimsen Kulisika, Jyoti Tuika and Johnny Oommen
Raygada: It has been said that life is a terminal disease. All who are born, will die. The time between the two defining events varies and is often not in our control. But one value we hope to hold on to through childhood, adult...
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-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...
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...