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.

Akshaya Kumar Sahoo

The Orissa government has constituted Lanjigarh Project Area Development Foundation, a special purpose vehicle, for the progress and development of primitive tribal communities like Kutia Kondh and Dongria Kondh

BHAWANIPATNA: The current climate has come as a relief for the cotton farmers of Kalahandi district who have been panicky over the prospects of paddy crop due to a long dry spell and fickle monsoon.

AKSHAYA KUMAR SAHOO

Vedanta is sourcing bauxite from Gujarat and its BALCO project in Chhattisgarh , so it is paying hefty sums on the transportation.
Procedural delays, bureaucratic hassles and lack of political will may result in the possibility of yet another foreign direct investment (FDI) project shying away from Orissa.

This essay contends that the economic liberalization, privatization and globalization (LPG) model of development in India is virtually depriving the tribal people and other agriculture dependent poor people of their traditional means of sustainable livelihood by promoting the unregulated growth of mineral-based industries in the tribal regions of India.

The tribal view
Can there be another Niyamgiri?
What do we do for our livelihood? We can

BHUBANESWAR: Cholera may have been controlled in Kalahandi but it is still fully on with its dreaded hybrid variant threatening to break loose. A surveillance study suggests that this killer bacteria is present in at least 13 districts of the State.

Akshaya Kumar Sahoo
GHASIAN MAJHI

Over five thousand people in 13 panchayats under Lanjigarh and Bhawanipatna blocks in Orissa, who are choleraaffected, are waging a battle between life and death. 50 adults have perished of cholera in the last one month.

BHAWANIPATNA: Tribals are more prone to infectious diseases due to malnutrition. An Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) bulletin said this in October 2003. In 2009 too this holds good in some of the tribal pockets of Kalahandi which are witnessing gastroenteritis and malaria in epidemic proportions.

BHUBANESWAR: Even as the State Government claimed to have controlled diarrhoea in Kalahandi where the disease has claimed 27 lives in three blocks, reports of more deaths from Bargarh district has put the administration in a tizzy.

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