Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Nizamuddin West Association Vs Union of India & Others dated 16/04/2025. The matter related to desilting of 24 drains with special focus on two drains - Kushak drain and Sunheri Pul drain before the monsoon. The court was informed that …
BHUBANESWAR: The Bharatiya Janata Party on Friday said that the ongoing vigilance probe into the multi-crore mining illegal scam was nothing but an eyewash. The party demanded that the Naveen Patnaik government hand over the cases relating to the mining scam to the Central Bureau of Investigation for a fair …
BHUBANESWAR: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today rejected the demand for Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the multi-crore mining scam. It was made by the BJP national team. Naveen said the State Vigilance is very much on the job and the progress of the inquiry is good. Dismissing the …
BHUBANESWAR: If there are those who think climate change will affect people who live only along the coast, they are mistaken. Tribal communities, who have been least-contributors to carbon emission, have suffered a lot during past one decade. At a public hearing which was mainly thought up to hear voices …
BHUBANESWAR: Minister for Steel and Mines Raghunath Mohanty reiterated that ArcelorMittal has assured the State Government that the company will establish the proposed steel plant in Keonjhar district. Doubts were expressed about the company going ahead with the project because of land acquisition problems. There were reports that the company …
Debabrata Mohanty Yet to figure out the extent of the multi-crore mining scam, Orissa Steel and Mines department has announced a reward for whistleblowers among general public and government officials who provide information on illegal mining. The department, which is now probing illegal iron, manganese and chromite mines in Orissa, …
BHUBANESWAR: The drive for industrialisation, launched by the State Government, has suffered a severe jolt with ArcelorMittal threatening to abandon the 12 mt steel plant project, estimated at Rs 40,000 crore, in Keonjhar district. This has come as a dampener for the Naveen Patnaik government once again as none of …
The public hearing in respect of expansion project proposed by M/s Crackers India (Alloys) Ltd for expansion of existing sponge iron plant of 60,000 TPA to Integrated Steel Plant of 1.0 MTPA and CPP (WHRB 32 MW + AFBC 22 MW) of 54 MW at Gobardhanpur in the district of …
IN Bayakumutia village, 22 kilometres from the district headquarters town of Keonjhar, the wails of a girl rent the air one morning in August. Her 12-year-old younger sister had died after suffering from high fever for some days. The nearest government hospital is 7 km away, and her father, Sukra …
BHUBANESWAR: Vigilance sleuths today raided the Unchabali iron and manganese mines at Joda in Keonjhar district in connection with multi-crore mining scam. Application for the mine was submitted in the name of Indrani Patnaik in 1999. Surface right was granted to the applicant in 2008. The raid was conducted in …
BHUBANESWAR: Even as the Vigilance Department of the State government conducted raids at several places in the course of their investigation into the multi-crore mining scam on Wednesday, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) staged a demonstration here demanding that the probe into the scam should be carried out at …
AKSHAYA KUMAR SAHOO It's official now. The Union government has admitted illegal mining of iron ore and manganese in Orissa's mineral-rich Keonjhar district. Replying to a letter by Pradesh Congress Committee president K.P. Singhdeo, Union mines minister Bijoy Krishna Handique has said investigation carried out by the Indian Bureau of …
BHUBANESWAR: While the dust over the multi-crore mining scam is yet to settle down, BJP has brought a fresh allegation of illegal mining against the Orissa Mining Corporation (OMC). Party spokesperson Sameer Mohanty today said that OMC is continuing mining operation in Kaliapani mines areas of Sukinda despite seizure of …
BHUBANESWAR: While the multi-crore mining scam is unfolding everyday, national BJP president Rajnath Singh today deputed a party delegation to visit the mines-rich Keonjhar and Sundargarh districts to assess the illegal mining. A delegation of the State BJP comprising Bijay Mahapatra, Dharmendra Pradhan, Rudranarayan Pani and Jatin Mohanty today met …
The State Government on Wednesday suspended Director of Mines Rabi Narayan Sahu in connection with the multi-crore mining scam. J R Patnaik, Director of Geology, will be in additional charge of Mines. Sources said that Sahu had allowed the Ram Bahadur Thakur Limited (RBTL) to guard the Katasahi and Rudukela …
BHUBANESWAR: The Vijayawada-Ranchi National Highway passing through 13 tribal dominated districts of the State will be completed by 2014. Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today reviewed the progress of different road and bridge projects at a high level meeting. Out of the 1,219 km long highway, 983 kilometre falls in Orissa …
The Congress in Orissa on Friday stepped up its pressure to force chief minister Naveen Patnaik to order a CBI probe into the multi-crore mining scam that rocked the entire state recently. Senior Congress leader and Jharsuguda MLA Naba Das, while demanding a CBI probe into the mining scam, alleged …
BHUBANESWAR: The Vigilance on Friday started an enquiry to ascertain whether there has been any illegal mining from the Kalaparvat iron ore mines allotted to B D Patnaik. This is the third case taken up by the Vigilance, which is investigating the multi-crore mining scam. Four vigilance officials went to …
Special Correspondent BHUBANESWAR: Seven government officials and a mines operator were arrested by the Vigilance Department of the State Government on Wednesday for their involvement in illegal mining in Keonjhar district. The accused were produced before a Vigilance court at Balasore during the day. The court remanded them to judicial …
Jamshedpur, Aug. 4: Tata Steel managing director B. Muthuraman lauded geologists and mining engineers working with the firm for their efforts to make the company a prominent player in the global minerals market. He was speaking at a function organised to mark 100 years of discovery of iron ore at …
BHUBANESWAR: The State Government has plans to set up 17 more reservoirs as a flood control measure. At present there 8 large and 37 medium reservoirs in the State on different river systems. Besides, work on 18 more projects are on. The projects on river Mahanadi which are on progress …
