Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik said the Capital needed to adopt a ‘zero’ waste policy and make sanitation a mass campaign in order to become a more cleaner city.

ROURKELA: The anti-Posco villagers opposing the proposed mining at Khandadhar in Bonai Assembly segment are upbeat over the elevation of BJP Lok Sabha member Jual Oram as Minister of Tribal Affairs

BHUBANESWAR: The State Government has prepared a perspective plan for development of health infrastructure at primary and secondary level to provide quality healthcare.

The Odisha Government issued heavy rain and flood alert for six coastal districts after the low pressure-induced showers lashed many parts of the State on Sunday.

BHUBANESWAR: The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has mandated introduction of ‘Environmental Studies’ across all the technical institutions of the state from next academic session

After an innovative idea of storing water at subsurface level through rainwater harvesting proved successful in 10 blocks of six districts, the State Government, on Saturday, decided to replicate t

The Orissa High Court on Wednesday directed the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) to conduct a study for ascertaining the level of pollution in mineral-rich Sukinda region of Jajpur district d

Despite Total Sanitation Campaign leading to increase in the number of households with toilet in the State, adoption of proper sanitation practices by the population still remains a far cry.

Acute encephalitis in eastern States such as Odisha and Jharkhand is caused by viruses of dengue and measles too, a latest study has revealed.

The study, which was recently published in the Epidemiology and Infection Journal, has showed that though herpes simplex virus (HSV) was a dominant agent for acute encephalitis, in some cases the viral agents were that of dengue and measles.

After a delay of more than six years, the Sundargarh district administration finally paved the way to set up the solid waste treatment processing plant of Rourkela Municipality at Tarkera.