Even as Union minister of state for chemicals and fertilisers Srikant Jena accused Orissa chief minister Naveen Patnaik of colluding in a mining scam that caused a loss of Rs 4 lakh crore to the st

The Orissa government would wait for the views of its department secretaries in the next two weeks before taking a call on the renewal of the MoU with Posco.

A high-level meeting of chaired by Chief Secretary B K Patnaik on Tuesday deferred a decision on recommending the revised Posco MoU to the Chief Minister as several department secretaries indicated that they needed time to study the new po

A committee of the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF), which inquired into the deaths of scores of elephants by electrocution, has recommended amendment of the Wildlife Protection (WP) Act, 1972, so that power distribution company officials and train drivers who mow down elephants can be punished for culpable homicide not amounting to murder.

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