Orissa HC reserves order on Italian tourist death case

A Delhi-based NGO will be conducting a craft-sensitization programme for teenagers Prerna Makhija Artist Laxmi M. Swain prepares a cotton prototype for a coir toy in Satasankha village, Orissa. Medhavi Gandhi was just 22 when she and two friends ...

Even as Maharashtra's 15 districts, comprising 11,801 villages, reel under drought, a Pune-based Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR), a non-governmental organisation, has shown the way to overcome water scarcity and fight poverty in over 250 ...

Location: Orissa , India Education : Post Graduate Occupation : social work Followers [0] View Full Profile Follow 0.0/5 Building capacity of three levels of institutions to plan and monitor climate smart projects was identified as the biggest need ...

Kendujhar (Orissa), March 21 (IANS) Hiramani Bentkar, 12, will no longer work on the fields in her village in Kendujhar district or help with domestic work. She now proudly walks to school, carrying a bagful of books.Hundreds of children like ...

Three weeks ago, when the Supreme Court reopened the iron-ore mining door some more in Karnataka, miners in Orissa breathed a Rs 50,000 crore sigh of relief. Also in the dock for some offences of a similar nature, Orissa's iron-ore miners, who ...

The Rahul-led Congress is rearing to go, not with any coloured ideological weaponry but with a brigade of new faces, which will reflect the united colours of both Bharat and India. The days of good economics are over. For the Congress and the ...

India has the dubious distinction of recording the most first-day deaths of children. Every year, 3,09,000 children die on the day they are born in India. It accounts for 29% of all the first-day deaths globally, the highest for any country, ...

Addressing the gather Renuka Chowdhary said that for transformation to happen the game changers have to be men and not women. As men came out against the social evil Sati, so also men should come forward. She listed out various governments ...

The Millennium Development Goal (MDG) -1 is regarding Eradication of Extreme Poverty and Hunger, which have 2 targets namely, (i) Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the percentage of population below the National Poverty Line and (ii) Halve, between 1990 ...