- Govt to remove vendors on 800m stretch

At least 166 hotels in the beach town of Puri face the threat of closure for running without valid pollution control certificates.

Kolkata: The National Green Tribunal (NGT), Eastern Zone Bench, has sought a report from the Central Ground Water Board (CGWB) on the status of two sweet water aquifers on the Puri beach.

PURI: Carcasses of over 150 Olive Ridley turtles and a bottlenose dolphin washed ashore were on Wednesday recovered by Forest department officials here, a top official said.

The National Green Tribunal has slammed Odisha government and the state pollution control board for permitting shops to operate on Puri beach.

PURI:In a major jolt to the State Government, work on its most ambitious tourism project - Shamuka - was stayed by the National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Wednesday.

Apprehension still haunts different quarters as to whether the administration would be able to provide safe drinking water to the estimated 30 lakh Rath Yatra visitors as majority of water samples

The Orissa State Pollution Control Board on Sunday decided to seal 60 hotels in Puri for allegedly violating pollution norms laid down by the National Green Tribunal.