Environment

The Indian Meteorological Department (IMT) on Tuesday issued orange alert across Odisha predicting further intensification of heat wave conditions in the state.

The death toll due to sunstroke has mounted to four in Odisha, said an official on Friday. According to the Special Relief Commissioner’s office, while two persons were killed in Angul district, two others were reported from Sonepur and Dhenkanal.

Social activist from Odisha Prafulla Samanatra won the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize for the massive anti-Vedanta campaign that halted Vedanta’s mining operation at Niyamgiri hills in the state.

Tata Steel in association with The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), on Friday launched a Green School Project to create awareness about environment issues on school campuses in the operational areas of the company.

Bhubaneswar: The capital city of Odisha the 40 degrees mark for the first time this year while Malkangiri recorded the highest temperature of 42.8 degree …

Odisha recorded the season's first three allegations of sunstroke death on Thursday. While two deaths related to sunstroke reported from Kendrapada and one recorded from Balasore district, said an official report.

Bhubaneswar: Even as temperature crossed 40 degree Celsius mark in several places in Odisha making life unbearable, the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has predicted thunder …

Bhubaneswar: The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) on Wednesday said that the tendency of rising in day temperature is likely to prevail for a week in …

High pressure over Bay of Bengal and cyclonic circulation over north Odisha, Jharkhand and gangetic West Bengal are likely to bring rainfall in several parts of Odisha till March 11.

Several parts of Odisha including the capital city witnessed light showers accompanied by a cool breeze in the morning on Wednesday.