CUTTACK: Carrying forward their efforts to transform Cuttack into a polythene-free city, the district administration and civic authorities today banned use of plastic items in kalyan mandaps and community halls during weddings and social functions.
CUTTACK: Even as the recent Tendulkar Committee report labels Orissa as the poorest state with over 57 per cent of the population bracketed in the poor sections and deprived of adequate calorie intake, the focus should be on maximising nutrient absorption from the available food.
CUTTACK: The dawn of 2010 could see an end to slaughtering and butchering of animals for meat in the open, on the roadsides or in the marketplaces of the millennium city.
With public slaughtering raising serious concerns and under the scanner of the Orissa High Court, the civic authorities have finally gone all out to facilitate slaughter houses and specific zones for meat sale.
BHUBANESWAR: Intriguing as it may sound, the H1N1 virus has unleashed itself in a remote pocket of tribal district of Sundargarh with little or no known exposure to outside world.
PARADIP: With the Central Government virtually breathing down its neck to expedite work on the much delayed Posco project, the State Government has asked the district administration to convene a meeting of the Rehabilitation and Periphery Development Advisory Committee next month.
CUTTACK: Even as the Millennium City has shaken off the hangover of the Durga Puja and is all set to plunge into festivities of Kali Puja and the Bali Yatra, conduct of the festivals would this year be bound by restrictions.
CUTTACK: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today said the Vision 2030 for the twin cities, prepared by IIT Kharagpur, has given ample emphasis to Cuttack and its contribution to cultural heritage of the Millennium City.
Naveen was addressing after inaugurating the new office of Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) at Ravenshaw University campus here.
