Water Logging

Bhubaneswar: The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has warned of heavy rainfall in several districts of Odisha for the next five days with light to moderate rain or thundershower very likely to occur in most places. Heavy to very…

New Delhi:  The heavy downpour in the national capital on Wednesday brought some respite from the summer heat but disrupted the normal life. As per reports, the rain caused massive traffic jams in various parts of Delhi leaving commuters…

Chennai: Chennai and its adjoining areas were recently inundated in water after heavy rain in the space of a fortnight and the water, mixed with sewage and petrol, had entered several homes. This is a phenomenon Chennai has been facing year…

Nearly 850 prisoners from Uttar Pradesh's Ballia District Jail have been shifted to jails in the neighbouring districts following heavy water-logging inside the barracks after incessant rains since Wednesday.

Recent death of an elderly woman after falling into an open drain in the State Capital has failed to open the eyes of authorities as similar deathtraps can be noticed in the Unit-IV area which houses the Odisha Assembly, Secretariat and…

The newly constructed Bomikhal overbridge in a complete mess. Name a flaw and you will find it existing on this flyover which has had a dark past while the structure was being constructed. A faulty design, worst quality concrete used in…

The State Capital was lashed by heavy rains, with monsoon showers leading to water-logging in parts of the city over the past three days. With Bhubaneswar growing in length and breadth significantly, water-logging has been a cause of…

Soon after Bhabani Shankar Chayani, a senior OAS officer of 1989 batch, assumed charge as Collector and District Magistrate, he went on for a field visit to gauge the situation of the drainage system in the city along with Commissioner of…

Soon after assuming office, Cuttack Collector Bhabani Shankar Chayani and Cuttack Municipal Corporation (CMC) Commissioner Ananya Das said their prime focus will be to resolve the water-logging and perennial drainage problem of the…

With the onset of Monsoon likely to touch Odisha by the first week of June as per the forecast made by the weather experts and as acute water-logging due to the clogged drainage system in this millennium city has been a menace on rainy…