Fresh diarrhoea cases were reported from Kashipur block of Rayagada district on Tuesday.

Official sources said at least 15 people, including four children, of remote Bahardulki and Kichikhal villages are suffering from the disease but are unable to reach Kashipur hospital due to lack of road communication.

Tribals in Rayagada district dashed Vedanta Alumina's hopes of mining the Niyamgiri hills further after the ninth pallisabha at Lamba village of the district on Thursday unanimously rejected the id

With more than half the gram sabhas in Orissa’s Rayagada and Kalahandi districts opposing bauxite mining in the Niyamgiri hills, Vedanta Aluminium Ltd is working on a two-pronged back-up plan to so

The State Government on Wednesday decided to provide pipe water supply to 1,048 tribal villages in the next three years.

Vedanta Aluminium Limited belonging to London-listed Vedanta Resources Plc appears to have received a setback on Monday with the rejection of the proposal by tribal people at all gram sabhas held i

Bhubhaneshwar : With the seventh gram sabha deciding against the mining of bauxite from Niyamgiri, the chances of Vedanta Resources getting the raw material from the hills for its 1-million-tonne L

The Dongria Kondhs of Kunakeda in Kalahandi district on Wednesday declared that worshipping their presiding deity, Niyamraja, was their birthright and no force on earth could snatch away their reli

“We are ready to die as we cannot think of life without Niyamraja”.

Dongria Kondhs of Kesaripadi and Serakapadi in Rayagada district had voted against the project in the gram sabhas

The villagers of Tadijhola in Kalahandi district of Odisha rejected the proposal for bauxite mining in Niyamgiri hills on Tuesday, becoming the third gram sabha to do so.

Bhubaneswar : Four days after tribals, in the first pallisabha, unanimously rejected Vedanta Aluminium plan to mine bauxite from Niyamgiri hills, another village has joined the chorus.

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