Mali Parbat bauxite mine: District judge presides over public hearing for EC but residents allege ‘mind games’

District administration slapped notices on 40 people and deployed paramilitary forces days ahead of hearing   

District judge to supervise next public hearing on Maliparbat bauxite mine in Koraput

Usually district magistrate or the additional district magistrate presides over public hearings

Mali Hill bauxite mine: Villagers resist project as Odisha govt extends Hindalco’s mining lease

The public hearing disrupted by protests has been rescheduled to November 22

International Coffee Day: Coffee cultivation transforming tribal lives in Odisha’s Koraput

Many Adivasis in Odisha’s Koraput have prospered in recent years after turning to coffee farming from shifting cultivation

COVID-19: How Koraput's tribal women hawkers are trying to recover livelihoods

The pandemic restricted the mobility of the women street vendors, pushing them to sell their wares online.

Turmeric soaps pave way for financial independence of Koraput’s tribal women

Around 1,2000 tribal women in the area have managed to eke out a living making turmeric soaps

Won’t allow bauxite mining on Mali Hill: Agitators ransack meeting in Koraput village

The Mali Hill in Koraput is the source of several streams, home to medicinal trees and is an elephant corridor, protestors say

Child trafficking in Odisha continues unabated: 20 teenagers rescued

The children, mostly girls, were rescued from a railway station 

Quail farming brings joy to Koraput’s tribal residents in COVID-19 times

Quail farming requires little capital and labour and involves less risk of disease, say experts

CAG lists Nalco’s many environmental aberrations

The audit agency says Nalco is liable for legal action for violations of environmental clearance terms

Mining for people

New mining bill to ensure industry shares its super-profits with affected people

Saving rice

Rice is at the heart of a fierce strategy debate as the country prepares to launch the second Green Revolution in the eastern states. …

Land rights and wrongs

Sops in naxal areas

Fruits of struggle

Odisha worries over safety of dams in way of Hudhud

Officials try to figure out how to drain water from the dam reservoirs before heavy rains begin Sunday morning

Naxals target NALCO mines

Post-floods, Orissa's tribal districts suffer cholera outbreak

UN heritage status for Odisha's Koraput farming system

Indigenous knowledge and farming practices of the region's tribal people recognised for promoting food security and conserving biodiversity

Your gods are mine

Cultural appropriation leads to ecological distress in Odisha

Rice intensification for increasing productivity

System of Rice Intensification is new mantra for reducing water usage and increasing productivity

The tribe that disappeared

For over five decades, the Durua tribe in Orissa was not recognised because of a mistake in the Centre's list of scheduled tribes made in 1951...

The virtual reality of being Indian

The remoteness of 190 villages in Orissa's undivided Koraput district is an elegy on governance. Over five decades, living in islands inside huge …

Cyclone Hudhud: experience from Koraput

The storm damaged houses, crops and livestock of people in the tribal belt but government has not even taken note of it

Over a coffee farm