Bhubaneswar: The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC), in collaboration with the Forest Department, has intensified its efforts to expand the green cover of the capital city by promoting urban forests, Miyawaki plantations, avenue plantations and greening of road medians. As part of the initiative, a new...
Bhubaneswar: Vigilance sleuths Wednesday arrested an R&B executive engineer after finding him in possession of disproportionate assets (DA) amounting to 309 per cent of his known sources of income. Arabinda Mohanty, executive engineer of the R&B Sub-Division at Betanati in Mayurbhanj district, was arrested along...
Bhubaneswar: The WWF EIACP Programme Centre, with support from the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC), launched a two-month Green Skill Development Programme (GSDP) residential certificate course on ‘Nature Conservator cum Ecotourism Guide’ at the Indian Institute of Tourism and Travel Management (IITTM)...
ARINDAM GANGULY, OP Kataka: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has imposed a cost of Rs 25,000 each on the Chief Secretary and seven officials for repeatedly failing to ensure representation in a case concerning alleged excess and illegal sand mining in Anugola district. The September...
PRASANJIT SAHU, OP Bhubaneswar: A Test Identification (TI) parade of accused Sridhar Panda, arrested in connection with Nayapalli rape case, was conducted at Jharpada Jail Wednesday, DCP Saravana Vivek M said. The DCP said the investigation would be completed at the earliest and the chargesheet...
Berhampur: Three men from Keralam were among four people arrested in Odisha's Ganjam district Wednesday while they were allegedly transporting Rs 38 lakh worth of ganja to the southern state by road, excise officials said. The arrested persons were identified as Akhil Thomas (31), Febin...
Bhubaneswar: The Naveen Patnaik-led BJD Wednesday decided to stay away from the Odisha bandh called by INDIA bloc parties October 8 against the new mining law, errors in school textbooks and the SIR exercise, asserting that it would remain equidistant from the BJP-led NDA and...
Brahmapur: The Odisha Forest Department has set up a total of 22 temporary bird protection camps in Chilika, the country's biggest waterfowl habitat, to provide security to the winged guests likely to arrive in hoards soon, officials said. In addition, two mobile units and a...
Bhubaneswar: The future of maritime search and rescue (SAR) operations hinge on various aspects like advanced technological integration, real-time information sharing and seamless inter-agency synergy, Indian Coast Guard Director General Paramesh Sivamani said Wednesday. Sivamani chaired a meeting of the National Maritime Search and Rescue...
Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government has directed all district collectors and Superintendents of Police to visit the state-run colleges and universities and extend all necessary support to ensure that student union elections are conducted peacefully and without disruption, officials said Wednesday. Chief Secretary Anu Garg has...
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The Supreme Court stating on 5 October that it has not approved any modifications to Form 6 being used by...
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By Aakar Patel While Gandhi Jayanti is still fresh on our minds and the right to peaceful assembly is in...
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