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
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
Sukapaika: Death of a river
How embankments have killed Odisha’s Sukapaika river that was the lifeline of over 0.5 million people
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
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 …
DTE Impact: Kendrapara SP appears before Orissa High Court in forest guard assault case
DTE had reported on 6 forest guards being attacked in the area by fishermen, in violation of a fishing ban
Jharsuguda activists seek fresh public hearing on Vedanta smelter expansion
Orissa High Court had asked the collector to respond by October 12 on holding another public hearing about expansion
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 …
Checking migration: Odisha extends MGNREGA-supplementary job guarantee to 10 tribal blocks
Job-seekers to get additional Rs 115 a day over MGNREGA wage; implementation isn't proper, says expert
Simply Put: Extreme apathy
Simply Put: Sambalpur’s iron-rich fields
Leopard hide trade on the rise: 10 skins seized in Odisha in 10 days
All five accused arrested
Ecological economist and Padma Shri awardee Prof Radhamohan passes away at 78
His economic visions were shaped by the experiences of farmers
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
Odisha ordinance: Up to 2 yrs jail for COVID-19 lockdown violation
State amends Section 3 of colonial-era Epidemic Diseases Act
Life thrown out of gear in coastal Odisha as Bulbul comes closer
Sea water enters coastal villages and Paradip port at high tide, inundating them
Simply put: Odisha rejects more than 10,000 FRA claims