Odisha plans to restore coastal green cover
Uprooted trees in Puri. Nearly 22 lakh trees have been destroyed in the cyclone in Odisha.Biswaranjan Rout Cyclone Fani-hit State aims at planting over 1.3 crore saplings as per a five-year scheme
Uprooted trees in Puri. Nearly 22 lakh trees have been destroyed in the cyclone in Odisha.Biswaranjan Rout Cyclone Fani-hit State aims at planting over 1.3 crore saplings as per a five-year scheme
BERHAMPUR: Rows of sugarcane-laden trucks in front of Aska Cooperative Sugar Factory speak volumes of uncertainty over latter’s functioning. A molasses tank bursted last Sunday on the factory premises
BHUBANESWAR: Baunsipada is like any other village in remote Khairiput block of Malkangiri district inhabited by Bondas, the primitive tribal group (PTG). Home to just 26 Bonda families, all that the village
Seeks talks after court battle lost Crying “discrimination”, the Anil Agarwal-promoted Vedanta Aluminium Ltd (VAL) wants to initiate a fresh dialogue with the environment ministry to arrive at a solution enabling the expansion of its aluminum refinery in Orissa.Vedanta has claimed the ministry discriminated against it by not clearing its Lanjigarh project, while the Jindal Power and Lavasa projects got the green signal.
BHUBANESWAR: Four days after shutdown of two units at Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP), Odisha's State Pollution Control Board (SPCB) has granted permission to operate them following anti-pollution measures
NEW DELHI: Vedanta Aluminium plans to meet officials of the environment ministry "soon" to chalk out its strategy related to expansion of alumina refinery in Orissa, following rejection of its review petition
BHUBANESWAR: The Orissa Electricity Regulatory Commission (OERC) on Saturday expressed its inability to redetermine power tariff for 2010-11 and 2011-12 in view of the stay on the revised tariff for the
BARIPADA: Mass culling of birds continued in Betanati block of Mayurbhanj district on Saturday following a Central directive to prevent the spread of avian influenza that was detected in Bahanada village.
Though the Orissa government is quite prompt in signing a number of memoranda of understanding (MoUs) with different MNCs and corporate houses for execution of different mega projects in the state, somehow
Orissa Minerals Development Company (OMDC) today said it has suspended operations at its Kolha Roida and Dalki mines after not getting permission to lift ore from the mines. "Development and mining work in Kolha Roida Iron & Manganese Mines and Dalki Manganese Mines has been stopped as permission for lifting of iron and manganese ore has not been issued by DDM, Joda," OMDC, a PSU under the administrative control of the Steel Ministry, said today.
SAMBALPUR: Even as the cause of death of saplings in Hirakud Command Area is being debated, former MP of Sambalpur, Bhabani Hota said extreme pollution levels in water and toxicity could be a reason. Hota