Simply put: Farmers hunger strike

Simply Put: Sambalpur’s iron-rich fields

World Rivers Day: Does a river exist for us only when it floods?

It’s important to spread river education in its totality, before dams and canals take over ‘rivers’ in the perception battle 

Iron ore sludge pond breaks in Sambalpur

Paddy and vegetable fields and poultry farms inundated with iron ore slurry after wall of a steel plant collapsed

After Talabira, tree-felling attempt in neighbouring Patrapalli village

According to a resident, the police attempted to chop trees in the village on December 11, but were thwarted by locals 

40,000 trees cut near Odisha’s Talabira village to make way for coal mine

Local residents, in charge of forest for half a century, not taken into confidence before tree felling

Farmers on hunger strike in Sambalpur due to non-payment of crop insurance

Insurance claims were to be paid nine months ago but insurer Reliance General Insurance Company did not accept the government report on crop loss

How to fight heat wave, the Odisha way

Other states could take a cue from Odisha government on reducing the number of heat stroke deaths

Rantal: A settlement’s journey from invisibility to identity

Displaced from Bihar in 1980, a group of 42 Munda families have collectively established the organic village in Odisha

Students of engineering university in Odisha’s Sambalpur wrongly diagnosed with COVID-19

COVID-19 restrictions put in place in and around the engineering university were lifted after all of them tested negative on March 2 

Mahanadi: Neither an election issue, nor a developmental one

The dying river is marred with pollution and irrigation issues and yet it hasn’t made it to the election agenda

Cannot cut trees on one's own land

Pests ruin paddy on 89,000 ha

Elephant crushed by train in Odisha’s Sambalpur

This is the 29th such death in Odisha in a decade  and the second death in Sambalpur district within a month

Acid rain in Orissa?

Odisha village wins case against Visaka Industries' asbestos plant

District administration approves Parmanpur panchayat’s decision to cancel no objection certificate to the company

Muscle power

People's initiatives

Orissa and UP villages once again prove that people are better managers of natural resources than today's obdurate governments

Bureaucracy restricts potential of Orissa's pani panchayats

Barrages spur protests

Odisha wants to dam surplus water downstream of Hirakud dam. But where’s the surplus?  

Serial polluter

30,000 farmers demand Hirakud dam water

Western Orissa is witnessing an upheaval. In the eye of the storm is the Hirakud dam. Over 300,000 farmers dependent on its water for irrigation …

Rivers' fury

Flood alert in Gujarat

Dam-induced floods feared in Ahmedabad, Gandhinagar and Kheda districts

Why Hirakud dam failed to check flood

The river has strayed from its flood control route