BHUBANESWAR: Odisha is making significant strides in curbing children’s mortality with the under-five mortality rate in the State declining at faster rate than the national average for the first ti
BHUBANESWAR: With the dust of panchayat polls slowly settling down, the Government on Thursday announced the much-awaited drought relief for the affected.
NABARANGPUR: Agricultural activities have come to a halt in Nabarangpur district, where 90 per cent of the population depends on farming, due to erratic rainfall.
A 24-hour state-wide shutdown called by Maoists against "forcible land acquisition" for South Korean steel major Posco's project and other issues hit normal life in southern parts of Orissa Thursday, police said.
"Government buses are not plying in the Maoist-affected districts of Gajapati, Rayagada, Malkangiri, Koraput and Nabrangpur," a police official told IANS.
BHUBANESWAR: After initial refusal to sanction funds under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) to the six districts under CBI scanner, the Centre on Monday released Rs 170 crore for the wage employment programme.
PURI/NABARANGPUR: The scourge of diarrhoea is back claiming three persons each in coastal Puri and predominantly tribal Nabarangpur districts. Many more are fighting for lives.
Three persons died today and five were battling for lives in Puri infectious diseases hospital (IDH) after bouts of diarrhoea, while another 55 are undergoing treatment there.
Contaminated water sources and the virtual absence of health care claim dozens of lives in the State, now in the grip of cholera.
COME monsoon and the backward regions of Orissa are in the grip of water-borne diseases. This year too has been no different. According to official figures, 150 people had died of cholera and diarrhoea in the State as on September 15.
Contaminated water sources and the virtual absence of health care claim dozens of lives in the State, now in the grip of cholera.
COME monsoon and the backward regions of Orissa are in the grip of water-borne diseases. This year too has been no different. According to official figures, 150 people had died of cholera and diarrhoea in the State as on September 15.
BHUBANESWAR: The Orissa Pradesh Youth Congress (OPYC) has warned that it will launch a statewide agitation if the State Government failed to check spread of cholera in the backward district of the State.
In a statement, OPYC president Pradip Majhi criticised the State Government for its inaction even though 140 persons have died of cholera and more than 500 are affected by the disease in Rayaga
