Bhubanewsar The Orissa government on Thursday submitted a memorandum to the central government seeking financial assistance of R2,120.92 crore for relief and rehabilitation in flood affected areas of the state.

Floods triggered by heavy rains over the past week and huge discharge of water from Hirakud dam have killed at least 16 people in Orissa and displaced thousands, an official said Sunday. There were reports of six people being swept away in Nayagarh and Bargarh districts but their dead bodies were yet to be found.
The situation continued to be grim in several places of the affected 19 of the state's 30 districts, forcing the authorities to press into service three helicopters Sunday to drop food packets.

BHUBANESWAR: The State Government has set 2013 deadline for completing the drinking water projects in the four fluoride-hit districts. In several pockets of Angul, Nuapada, Balasore and Nayagarh districts, fluorosis has taken a toll on the local population necessitating the pipe-water projects by the Government.

Bhubaneswar: Seeking investment in the backward KBK (Kalahandi-Bolangir-Koraput) region in the state, the Odisha government on Monday approved investments of Rs1045 crore in power and petroleum sectors, official sources said.

The state government is working out a policy on how to mobilise investment in KBK region.

NAYAGARH: A modern thermal power plant is all set to come up in the State soon. BGR Energy Systems Limited, headquartered at Chennai, will be setting up the plant in Bhapur block with a production capacity of 1320 MW.

BHUBANESWAR: ELIMINATING hunger from the State seems a distant possibility if the results of the latest survey report

Neither do elephants change routes, nor are they known to use a man-made structure or follow road signs

THE DAY Jairam Ramesh declared the elephant as a

Bhubaneswar: The ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) on Tuesday accorded the Stage I forest clearance to the Brutang Irrigation Project in Nayagarh district.

The Odisha government on March 18 had submitted a proposal to obtain MoEF

NAYAGARH: As many as 55 villages under tribal-infested Chhamundia and Badasilinga gram panchayats here have been cut off from the mainstream since Thursday after a temporary bridge over river Brutang on Gania-Chhamundia road in Daspalla was washed away due to heavy rains.

NAYAGARH: Even as rains have brought down the temperature, there is no respite from water scarcity for Madhaberani village in Khandapada block. With tubewells lying defunct and water sources dried up, womenfolk have to walk down to Mahanadi river to fetch drinking water.