Environment

Word Environment Day: Environment Ministry Launches Nationwide Campaign to End Plastic Pollution

22/05/202522/05/2025Odisha News TuneLeave a Comment

Posted on May 22, 2025, by PIB Delhi In a significant step towards environmental sustainability, the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has launched a nationwide mass mobilisation campaign titled ‘One Nation, One Mission: End Plastic Pollution’ ahead of World Environment Day 2025 celebrations. This campaign reinforces India’s commitment to combating plastic pollution and […]

Eco-friendly Jewellery for a Sustainable Future

05/06/202405/06/2024Odisha News TuneLeave a Comment

We are celebrating the 52nd Year of World Environment Day, today. This year’s theme for World Environment Day emphasizes the urgency of collective action to combat the challenges of land restoration, desertification and drought resilience under the slogan “Our land. Our future. We are Generation Restoration.” This is one of the most powerful slogans given […]

Odisha: CAMPA steering committee meeting focuses on use of drone technology to study forest cover mapping

11/01/202412/01/2024Odisha News TuneLeave a Comment

Bhubaneswar, January 11: The State Level Steering Committee meeting of Compensatory Afforestation Fund Management and Planning Authority (CAMPA) held on Thursday under the chairmanship of Chief Secretary Pradeep Kumar Jena. Reviewing in the meeting, Chief Secretary Jena advised to use Drone Technology to study forest cover mapping before and after plantation; after one year and […]

Garg stresses on building climate smart villages in Odisha

22/09/202324/09/2023Odisha News TuneLeave a Comment

Bhubaneswar, September 22: Development Commissioner Anu Garg on Thursday stressed on building climate smart villages in the State, said an official release. The DC was reviewing the projects on Climate Resilient Agriculture. NABARD General Manager, Directors of AFP and Horticulture; Director, Special Projects; PD, OIIPCRA, senior officers of key Departments, Ganjam and Mayurbhanj Collectors, Support […]

Intrusion detection system along railway tracks in Odisha to avert elephant collision

12/08/202316/08/2023Odisha News TuneLeave a Comment

Bhubaneswar, August 12: With the largest population of wild Asian elephants, India is the mainstay for long-term conservation of the species, said Union Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change Bhupender Yadav here on Saturday. Addressing the gathering on the occasion of World elephant day in Bhubaneswar, the Union Minister highlighted the concerted efforts taken […]

Manveer’s art work on Puri beach spreads awareness on plastic menace in sea water

24/11/202125/11/2021Odisha News TuneLeave a Comment

Bhubaneswar, November 24: For the visitors on the Puri’s beach the sight of a 15-feet long turtle since early morning today till the evening was a delightful sight. However, the big art work made from layered plastics by Delhi-based artist Manveer Singh was a collage of 250 small turtles of the waste plastic with a […]

Cyclists from Odisha join ‘Say No to Firecrackers’ event

04/11/202105/11/2021Odisha News TuneLeave a Comment

Bhubaneswar, November 3: SwitchON Foundation organised a State-wide cycling event, ‘Cycle with Lights’ Parade to create awareness on the harmful effects of bursting fire crackers for the third consecutive time, this year with cyclists from Odisha joining in too. The aim of the parade is to sensitise citizens about the harm firecrackers cause to the […]

Book ‘Secrets of Similipal’ presented to Odisha Chief Minister

16/09/202116/09/2021Odisha News TuneLeave a Comment

Bhubaneawar, September, 16: Odisha Lokayukta Member Dr. Debabrata Swain on Thursday met Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik at the latter’s residence Naveen Niwas here and presented a copy of the book ‘Secrets of Smilipal – A Wonderland of Elephants and Melanistic Tigers’, written by him. The book has been jointly published by Astral International Private Limited, […]

Authorities go on tree-felling spree in Bhubaneswar Old Town area

11/09/202111/09/2021Odisha News TuneLeave a Comment

Bhubaneswar, September 11: While the demolition of the old structures under the Ekamrakshetra Development plans has been on hold in the Old Town of Bhubaneswar ever since the Suka Sari episode, the authorities have now gone on a tree-felling spree for road widening. Earlier it was the old structures, houses, temples and mutts which were […]

Cuttack & Bhubaneswar residents could live 2.7 years longer if Odisha Govt meets WHO air quality standards

07/09/202111/09/2021Odisha News TuneLeave a Comment

Bhubaneshwar, September 7: In a first of its kind campaign, concerned citizens across Odisha have joined hands to demand that the Urban Local Bodies (ULB) mandatorily issue timely health advisories publicly, to alert citizens on ‘bad air’ days, which will help save vulnerable groups from severe health impacts of air pollution. Bad air days are […]