SAMBALPUR: The National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) has been in existence here for three years now but the District Rural Development Agency (DRDA), Sambalpur district, has been able to provide 100 days of work to only 170 households against 1,33,154 job cards issued in the district.

SAMBALPUR: Notwithstanding numerous notices served by State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), aluminum producer Hindalco has failed to act on hazardous waste management. The wastes are reportedly generated by Hindalco

Damaged crops and helpless farmers. This is a common scene in the region every harvest season. Not only the elephants destroy hundreds of acres of standing paddy crops, but also cause widespread damage to houses in the locality.

Sambalpur, Climate change is finally taking a toll on farmers, particularly the marginal ones, whose vegetable crops have been badly affected by the delayed onset of winter. Although winter sets in around Durga Puja every year, this year even after the end of Kartik Purnima, there is no sign of cold and chill.

with the Orissa government going full steam with its industrialization drive, business houses are flexing their muscles

BHUBANESWAR: At least four persons were killed after inhaling poisonous gas that emanated from a steel plant in Orissa

with the first spell of monsoon in mid-June people in Bargarh, Nuapada, Kalahandi and Sambalpur districts in Orissa experienced something they had never seen before: a grayish layer on leaves, vehicles and elsewhere.

When Bijaya Chandra Panda wanted to cut down a few trees on his 8 hectare (ha) plot he thought he was well within his rights to do so. Little did he realize that it would take him 300