Life is grim for the tribals living in the reserve forest areas of the country, who face pressure from corrupt officials on one hand, and the environment lobby on the other.
JEYPORE: With at least 20 malarial deaths in the last one week, the disease is taking epidemic proportions in Jeypore and Koraput sub-divisions under Koraput district. As many as 3,000 persons suffering from malarial fever were admitted to health centres in these sub-divisions. Of these, 80 per cent cases are of children.
JEYPORE: Supply of substandard seeds by the Orissa Seed Corporation for the kharif season in Koraput district has hit the farmers below the belt. About 40 per cent seeds was found to be poor in quality and failed to germinate.
KORAPUT: When tribal girl Sunjukta Pangi will deliberate on the impact of climate change at the Junior 8/G8 Summit in Italy, her parents in back of beyond Karanjaguda village under Thuria panchayat in Pottangi block will be on cloud nine.
The Niyamgiri Hills, which range over 250 kilometres across the districts of Rayagada, Kalahandi and Koraput in Orissa, are home to more than 8,000 Dongaria Kondhs and other tribals who are now wholeheartedly engaged in what they have been doing for centuries: defending their hills, forests and streams. This time, however, they face a more formidable enemy than ever
A careful analysis of the computed Agricultural Development Indices for different districts of Orissa reveals that the four coastal districts (Balasore, Cuttack, Puri and Ganjam) and two districts of central table land area (Sambalpur and Bolangir) are agriculturally more advanced than other districts in the three reference years over three decades (1980-81, 1998-99).
BHUBANESWAR: Exactly a month after the Naxal attack, National Aluminium Company Limited (Nalco) resumed full operations at its bauxite mines at Panchpatmali in Koraput district.
Debabrata Mohanty Posted: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 at 0327 hrs IST
Bhubaneswar:
A month after a daring Maoist attack claimed the lives of 11 CISF jawans and over 20 rebels, Public sector Navratna company Nalco on Tuesday resumed full-fledged operations at its Panchpatmali bauxite mine in Damanjodi area of Koraput district.
BHUBANESWAR: A month after about 300 armed left wing extremists mounted attack on bauxite mines of National Aluminium Company Limited (Nalco) at Panchpatmali in Koraput district, the company said it resumed full-fledged operations on Tuesday
