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Legal landmine

Government support to Vedanta's alumina project in Orissa creates more uproar; company pays token fine

Where Bolangir's poor go

The iron ore rush

Companies can't wait to mine Orissa's rich deposits; government goes with the flow

Gods feel the pinch too

Puri rath yatra, Jagannath temple plagued by scarcity of wood

Voters' tactic

Orissa's forest groups want candidates to be answerable

No dropping anchor

Mired in misery, Chilika's fisherfolk continue to doggedly fight for their rights

The cactus and its uses

Cacti are prickly, and pleasing. Extremely ungainly, they flourish in arid conditions where no plant will survive. Succulent inside, their thick …

Orissa faces acute food insecurity

It is well known that farmers of Orissa are not the 'privileged ones'. What is not known, albeit, is the fact that their plight is all set to …

Sponge iron(y)

Orissa turning into a haven for the hazardous industry

In the tax bracket again

The Orissa government has slapped a forest development tax on three minor forest produce items -- tendu leaf, timber and bamboo. Seen as a …

Crying foul

Orissa's JFM groups resent move to set up forest bodies

Orissa's stick is Chhattisgarh's carrot

orissa might well be at the receiving end of one of Chhattisgarh chief minister Ajit Jogi's pre-poll sops meant to benefit his own states's …

Shaken and stirred

Report focuses on Orissa cyclone's mind-jolting fallout

Famine in motion

Valley of despair

Unrestrained chromite mining takes Sukinda valley to the edge of an abyss

Succour for Sukruli

High court takes polluting sponge iron unit to task

Polluters' haven

CAG report exposes Orissa government's feeble attempts to control industrial pollution

Woman power

When the men of Dengajhari failed, women took up arms to protect their forests

Billowing Rage

The Sukruli cauldron threatens to boil over if the Orissa government does not act against the smoke-spewing sponge iron plant in the area.

Judges take lessons

Orissa's lower judiciary hones its skills to settle environmental disputes

Livelihood Crisis

Polythene culture in Puri is driving the palm leaf packets out of use

Fights for space

The human-elephant conflict takes a violent turn in Orissa. Two persons injured in police firing

Holy mess

The Supreme Court pulls up the Orissa government for pollution in Puri

Fighting for survival

Shrinking habitat due to deforestation has forced elephants to enter human territory in Orissa's Keonjhar district

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