This draft action plan on climate change by the Orissa government proposes strategies to move towards as a carbon conscious and climate resilient state. It envisages an outlay of around Rs 17,000 crore in 11 key sectors over the next five years and with this, Orissa is the first state …
One step forward and two steps backward. This apparently is how Posco's proposed mega Rs 51,000-crore steel plant in Orissa has progressed for last three years. Unable to overcome the opposition, the South Korean company and the Orissa government on Monday developed cold feet yet again, deferring their plans indefinitely …
New Delhi: In what could be a fresh headache for government, a petition challenging the constitutional validity of a pet UPA project, the Forest Rights Act aimed at giving land rights to traditional forest dwellers, has been filed by prominent wildlife groups in Supreme Court. If accepted, the case could …
