BHUBANESWAR: Admitting that Orissa still remains backward in the national education scenario, Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh Wednesday said at least 15 or 16 skill-based polytechnics would come to the State out of 1,000 planned for the entire country to enhance

Thousands of residents from nine villages in the Shahpur forest division are reaping the fruits of their hard work and dedication of over a decade in restoring greenery on 5,000 hectares of barren land.

New scheme, old proposal THE Union environment and forests ministry has come up with a new scheme for compensatory afforestation in case of forest land being diverted for non-forest use. Under the scheme the user will identify a piece of land, develop a forest and transfer it to the forest department. Called the Green Credit Scheme, it has got administrative approval and has been

International proposals to protect forests as a way of tackling climate change could displace millions of indigenous people and fail to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions, environmentalists warn.

Ananth Hegde Ashisara has been instrumental in chairing many seminars on environment and related issues. He has also headed many agitations in preventing the degradation of forests.