The unfortunate death of a wounded and abandoned elephant calf has prompted the forest department to consider a rescue and rehabilitation centre for ailing wild animals in East Singhbhum.
The department will soon send a proposal to the Union forest and environment ministry. The facility is likely to come up at the forest theme park in Ghorabandha.
Faced with resistance over land acquisition for its proposed projects in Torpa-Kamdara, steel behemoth ArcelorMittal is exploring possibilities outside Khunti district.
BHUBANESWAR: Heavy rains lashed large parts of north coastal Orissa as the deep depression moved further away from Jamshedpur. The system and an active monsoon ensured heavy showers on Sunday. Some areas received close to 20 cm rains during the last 24 hours, the weather office said.
Malnourished children of the Kolhan division can now bite into their share of healthy and nutritious food with the first therapeutic food processing unit in the country being set up at the anganwadi training centre in Kadma.
Now the state and students can fight the battle against malnutrition together.
Pooja Talikoti, an associate professor with the department of nutrition, University of Rajasthan, who is also associated with Unicef, has decided to bring students of Jamshedpur Women
The late monsoon is upsetting the migration schedule of the elephants of the Dalma Wildlife Sanctuary.
Each year, in the month of September, elephants leave the reserve area and head to Purulia, West and East Midnapore districts. They return to sanctuary before the start of the summer season, around mid-February.
