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Mahanadi Coalfields may face Rs 20,000 crore penalty

Coal India BSE 1.89 % subsidiary Mahanadi Coalfields Limited can face a penalty of more than Rs 20,000 crore in the wake of a Supreme Court order that rendered illegal all mineral production in vio

Publication Date: 
19/09/2017
Economic Times (New Delhi)
Tags:
Orissa (Odisha), Mahanadi Coalfields, Environment Act 1986, Forests, Compensation, Environment Clearance (EC), Jharkhand, Environment
Environment

Odisha pollution police partially shut down Vedanta’s captive power plants

BHUBANESWAR: The Odisha State Pollution Control Board (OSPCB) has directed partial closure of Vedanta Limited’s power plants over breach of regulations relating to the ash pond at Katikela in Jhars

Publication Date: 
15/09/2017
New Indian Express (Bhubaneswar)
Tags:
Orissa (Odisha), Industrial Pollution, Vedanta Aluminium, State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), River Pollution, Environmental Health, Environment
Environment

Axe on Puri beach shops

- Govt to remove vendors on 800m stretch

Publication Date: 
14/09/2017
Sandeep Mishra
Telegraph (North East)
Tags:
Orissa (Odisha), Beaches, Puri (T), Environmentalists, Land Encroachments, Wastewater Treatment, Water Harvesting, Environmental Security, Environment
Mining

Odisha government notice to 34 miners for violating forest Act soon

The State Government is in the process of finalising demand notices to be served on 34 mining lease holders for recovery of full cost of the minerals illegally mined in violation of Forest Conserva

Publication Date: 
12/09/2017
New Indian Express (Bhubaneswar)
Tags:
Orissa (Odisha), Mining, Minerals, Forest Act 1980, Central Empowered Committee (CEC), Environment Clearance (EC)
Natural Disasters

Temporal variation of phytoplankton assemblage in estuarine waters: implication of cyclone Phailin

Physical forcing of cyclonic phenomenon on water quality often exerts stress on marine and estuarine ecosystems due to their unpredictability. The post-cyclonic changes in phytoplankton biomass have been reported in the Bay of Bengal. In addition, cyclones also intensify physical processes resulting in entrainment of nutrient-rich water from deeper depths into surface leading to regional phytoplankton blooms.

Original Source

Publication Date: 
10/09/2017
S. K. Baliarsingh, Suchismita Srichandan, Aneesh A. Lotliker & et al
Current Science
113
5
858-860
Tags:
Estuaries, Cyclones, Water Quality, Bay Of Bengal, Research, Orissa (Odisha)
Environment

Odisha pollution board slaps show-cause notice on Vedanta for ash pond breach

BHUBANESWAR: The Odisha State Pollution Control Board (OSPCB) has slapped a show cause notice on Vedanta Limited for the ash pond breach in Jharsuguda where it has an aluminium smelter and thermal

Publication Date: 
08/09/2017
New Indian Express (Bhubaneswar)
Tags:
Orissa (Odisha), Industrial Pollution, Vedanta Aluminium, State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), Compensation, River Pollution, Land Pollution, Environmental Health, Environment
Health

Swine flu toll increases to 41 in Odisha

With five new cases, the total number of positive cases in the state increased to 355 out of 1089 swab samples, said the Odisha health department statement.

Publication Date: 
07/09/2017
Indian Express (New Delhi)
Tags:
Orissa (Odisha), Swine Flu, Influenza, Infectious Diseases, Animal Diseases, Jagatsinghpur (D), Health Effects, Health
Health

Swine flu toll mounts to 30

BHUBANESWAR: A 45-year-old man admitted in Veer Surendra Sai Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Sambalpur, died of swine flu on Tuesday, taking the H1N1 toll in the state to 30 so far, off

Publication Date: 
31/08/2017
Times Of India (Bhubaneswar)
Tags:
Orissa (Odisha), Swine Flu, Influenza, Infectious Diseases, Angul (D), Jagatsinghpur (D), Health Effects, Health
Health

H1N1 claims two more lives, toll 29 in Odisha

CUTTACK: Two more persons fell to swine flu in the State on Monday, taking the toll to 29.

Publication Date: 
30/08/2017
New Indian Express (Bhubaneswar)
Tags:
Orissa (Odisha), Swine Flu, Health Effects, Infectious Diseases, Influenza, Nuapada (D), Bhubaneswar, Health
Solid Waste

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding sanitation and solid waste problems faced by residents of Kalinga Nagar-8, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, 24/08/2017

Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of Kalinga Nagar Residents Welfare Association Vs Ministry of Urban Development & Housing, Govt. of Odisha & Others dated 24/08/2017 regarding sanitation and solid waste problems faced by residents of Kalinga Nagar-8, Bhubaneswar, Odisha. It is alleged that the solid waste management of the respondent Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) was inept as solid wastes are dumped in the open space in the residential area of KN-8 contributing further to the pollution of the environment.

Judgement Date: 
24/08/2017
Tags:
Municipal Solid Waste, Sewage Treatment Plants (STP), Bhubaneswar, Orissa (Odisha), National Green Tribunal (NGT), Court, Groundwater Pollution, Sewage Pollution, State Pollution Control Board (SPCB)

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