New DelhiThe Supreme Court on Friday said it will hear the Orissa Mining Corporation

More than 40,000 Jhodias, the 'principal tribe' of Orissa's Kashipur, find themselves disenfranchised for reason's nobody's willing to admit or accept.

BHUBANESWAR: ALARMED by the high childhood mortality, the Regional Medical Research Centre (RMRC) has proposed to its parent body, the Indian Council of Medical Research, to establish a surveillance centre in the State for screening of Haemophilus influenzae b (Hib), one of the biggest child killers in Orissa.

With the Centre initiating a surveillance and community vaccination in eight States o

More than 40,000 Jhodias, the principal tribe of Orissa's Kashipur, find themselves disenfranchised for reason's nobody's willing to admit or accept.

BHUBANESWAR: After Rayagada district, diarrhoea has struck Cuttack. At least 53 inhabitants of a village under Narasinghpur block are found suffering from the disease in the last five days prompting Health Department to send a medical team to keep a watch on the situation.

All cases came from Baselihata village under Kanpur PHC where diarrhoea outbreak was first reported on January 26.

The Orissa High Court has directed the Union ministry of environment and forests to justify the ministry

Paper industry generates green house gases in many stage of its operations; there is scope for implementation of CDM project preferably in forestry sector. JKPL's A/R CDM project under LULUCF category aims to GHG mitigation and sell emission reductions earned through carbon sequestration in the established agro-forestry plantations.

Last fortnight, the Supreme Court agreed allegations of misappropriation of NREGS funds in Orissa are not without basis.

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BHUBANESWAR: Despite the enormity of waterborne epidemics in Orissa, figures don't add up to suggest any encouraging trend on sanitation front.

As of August 2010, the State has been able to construct over 30 lakh individual household toilets. But the total requirement is around 71 lakh.

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