Judges take lessons
Orissa's lower judiciary hones its skills to settle environmental disputes
Relish it
Staying healthy is not a daunting task if one regularly eats neem dishes
Orissa's biotech policy 2005
Biodiversity, farmers' interests at stake
Fresh BPL survey
Orissa to expand its list of poor
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (August 9, 2022)
Down To Earth brings you top environmental cases heard in Supreme Court, high courts and National Green Tribunal
The maize debt trap: Why are tribal farmers in this Odisha district caught in a loop of debt?
Depleting soil quality and rising fertiliser costs perpetuate a crushing cycle of debt and marginalisation
How an Odisha community revived a mangrove forest to protect their village from cyclones
Over the past 12 years, the residents of Badakot have converted degraded land into a 25-acre mangrove forest that protects their village from …
Kendu leaves: 29 Odisha villages win complete autonomy, but still a long way to go
Most villagers earned more than Rs 15,000 this year, over seven times their past earnings
Odisha orders 48-hour shutdown in 3 cities apprehending community spread of COVID-19
Decision after person in posh Bhubaneswar neighbourhood tests positive without any travel history
Only 2 passengers aboard Odisha’s new Balangir-Bichhupali train: RTI
Balangir-Bichhupali track is part of Khurda-Balangir line and was inaugurated in January 2019
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (September 9, 2022)
Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal
Fish being dried illegally with formalin in Odisha, govt promises action
Those drying fish illegally say they do it to cut costs; govt planning to provide chemical-free methods to dry fish
Sukapaika: Death of a river
How embankments have killed Odisha’s Sukapaika river that was the lifeline of over 0.5 million people
It is legal, yet harvesting bamboo out of reach for these communities
Though bamboo can now be legally harvested, local communities are protesting as they face administrative hurdles
The sheer folly of Indian GIs
States are competing to pile up Geographical Indication tags without studying the benefit to producers
Centre sends team to assess malnutrition deaths in Odisha
Ninteen infants have died due to malnutrition and related diseases in Jajpur district in the last six months
More than intoxicating
Yet government policy has forced many people to give up mahua -- their nutritious staple food
Migrate they must: Janikari Jima
This booklet in Oriya, entitled We will go Informed, is predicated upon a necessity: the migration of the poor and the landless from Orissa's …
Miners want no Public Hearing
Officials representing Vedanta seemed anxious to ensure that the public hearing held to discuss the proposed expansion of their Aluminium …
New threads
Traditional Ikat weavers of Odisha mobilise into a company to improve incomes and lives
Seeds from the past
For a decade, 200 villages in Odisha have conserved and grown 190 indigenous rice and millet varieties with proven climate resilience
Simply Put: Silencing pollution
Two arrested in Odisha’s Kandhamal for trying to set forest on fire
At least 16 have been arrested in Odisha since March 5 for the same crime
13 feared dead due to cholera in Rourkela
Locals blame bad condition of drainage system and leakage of water supply pipes for outbreak
Ash pond breach in Odisha’s Jharsuguda destroys cropland; causes pollution in Hirakud Dam
Farmers not hopeful of receiving compensation as their counterparts are yet to receive it for the collapse of an ash pond belonging to …