BHUBANESWAR: As people keep falling ill or even drop dead in the tribal pockets of undivided Koraput, the politics of mango kernel has come back to haunt the State.

Both the government and the Congress have begun quibbling over facts and figures as the epidemic keeps spreading dangerously.

With number of deaths due to diarrhoea and cholera in Orissa

Cholera, diar rhoea and other waterborne diseases in Orissa

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

Bhubaneswar: The 'vibrio cholerae' bacteria was detected in water sources of Southern Rayagada district where at least 34 people have died of diarrhoea in last two months, official sources said on Thursday.

Of the 16 water samples examined at the Regional Medical Research Centre (RMRC) here, six tested positive to vibrio cholerae, said D N Nayak, the team leader of state health human resource m

BHUBANESWAR: The State Government today decided to continue with the scheme to provide financial incentives to the tribal patients to draw them to hospitals.

The decision was taken at a high-level meeting presided over by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik here today.

Bhubaneswar: London-based mining major Vedanta Resources on Wednesday requested the Orissa government for allotment of an alternative bauxite mines in view of the Union ministry of environment and forest (MoEF) denying it access to the Niyamgiri reserves in Kalahandi district.

The chief operating officer of Vedanta Alumina (VAL) Mukesh Kumar, met the Orissa steel & mines minister, Rathunath Moh

BHUBANESWAR: IT will be difficult for Vedanta to get prospecting licence (PL) or mining lease of any bauxite mines in Orissa in the near future following rejection of stage-I forest clearance from the proposed mining project in Niyamgiri by Union Ministry of Environment and Forests.

Steel and Mines Minister Raghunath Mohanty said though Vedanta is ready to take bauxite from any other altern

One year ago, if you had uttered the words

BERHAMPUR: Dysentery has struck Bissamcuttack block in Rayagada district with a vengeance.

Pages