Bhubaneswar: The urban development authority will relax environment norms to provide speedy clearance to building plans here.

Cuttack: A public interest litigation in Orissa High Court has sought its intervention against the mushrooming of illegal brick kilns in areas under Barang and Sadar blocks of Cuttack district.

The Lohit valley where the Demwe project will come up

Guwahati: The National Green Tribunal has suspended the forest clearance of the 1,750MW Demwe hydel project in Arunachal Pradesh.

- Govt to remove vendors on 800m stretch

- Health workers intensify operations

Dengue has claimed its first victim in Assam this year with a 36-year-old woman succumbing to the vector- borne disease that has assumed epidemic proportions with Kamrup (metro) identified as the w

Barring Assam, the process to collect bread samples for laboratory tests is yet to gain momentum in the rest of the Northeast, a week after a Delhi-based NGO warned that cancer-causing chemicals we

- Govt docked Rs 50000 for river diversion

The Centre has proposed to declare two famous biodiversity spots in Meghalaya eco-sensitive zones.

- Manipur district under curfew