The culvert over Hardajor nullah between Kegaon and Lanji in Golmunda block of Kalahandi district, which was washed away in heavy rains two years back.
An aerial view of flood-hit Manikpur in Boudh districtExpress New Service 20 Sep 2008
10:44:00 AM ISTBHUBANESWAR: As a swelling Mahanadi began to submerge vast tracts in the deltaic regions carrying an overwhelming 15 lakh cusec water, Orissa watched with awe the devastation nature
BHUBANESWAR: As threat increases to coastal regions with climate change, the State Government has moved towards creation of a directorate to combat the looming danger.
This, probably, is for the first time that a State has planned a dedicated wing - Coastal Erosion Protection Directorate - to meet the challenges of coastal erosion which, lately, has dealt a body blow to the shoreline along many stretches.
SMART CARDS PART III
Rakesh Prakash & Bishnu Dash / Bangalore/bhubaneswar September 03, 2008, 1:16 IST
Farm workers swiping biometric cards to receive their daily wages is all set to become a reality in Orissa and Karnataka villages. Both states are ready to distribute smart cards to ensure transparency in the disbursal of social security pension and payment of wages under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme.
BHUBANESWAR: An Assembly Standing Committee has pulled up the Rural Development Department for delay in the implementation of drinking water project in Sakhigopal and Kanas region of Puri district as a result of which people of the area are living without potable water for years.
The panel members headed by chairman Narasingh Mishra visited the area recently to make an on the spot verification of the project implemented under the Rural Water Supply and Sanitation (RWSS) to supply pipe water to the people.
"I am falling ill in this bus. There are elderly people, women and children. It is getting dark and we are insecure in the middle of this jungle. My cellphone battery is running out. Soon I will lose all contact. Please help us,' Maya Roy (53) tells The Indian Express over her cellphone. A resident of Entally and a patient of hypertension, she is undergoing a nightmare since Saturday night. Without food and water, huddled inside a private bus, she is stuck up near the Lodhasuli forests in West Midnapore on the Orissa-Bengal border.
Orissa continues to reel under heatwave conditions even as the death toll due to sun stroke in the state mounted to 51 on Thursday. Seven deaths were reported from Dhenkanal, six each from Angul and Jagatsinghpur, five from Khurda, four each from Ganjam, Nayagarh, Sambalpur and Sundergarh, two each from Balasore, Puri and Sonepur, three in Jajpur and one from Kendrapara and Mayurbhanj districts.
Global warming may spell doom for some of the Orissa's heritage sites, including Puri's Jagannath temple and Konark Sun temple, according to a recent Greenpeace report.
people living in Sipasarubali near the coast in Puri, Orissa, are under threat. Waves have swept away parts of a beach in this popular tourist spot. While local residents are perturbed and visitors
