BHUBANESWAR: Acting on a writ petition filed by one Suresh Pradhan and others, the Orissa High Court today issued notices to the Centre and State Government along with Jindal India Thermal Power Ltd over establishment of its power plant at Deranga in Angul district.

A Division Bench of Chief Justice V Gopalagowda and Justice BN Mohapatra has also directed status quo on the public roads within

The ruling BJD and the CPM today assailed the Congress-led UPA government at the Centre for hiking prices of petrol within a month.
Demanding a rollback, Biju Yuva Janata Dal said the price hike will further fuel the inflationary trend.

While the prices of essential commodities have gone through the roof making the life of people miserable, the Centre has miserably failed control it.
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BHUBANESWAR: The State Government has decided to seek the help of Water and Power Consultancy Services (WAPCOS) for setting up mini and micro hydel projects for generation of clean and cheap electricity.

A decision to this effect was taken at a high-level meeting presided over by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik here today.

PARADIP: The House panel on environment expressed dissatisfaction over inability of Paradip Port Trust, IOCL, Paradeep Phosphates Ltd in controlling industrial pollution in the area.

PARADIP: On the 6-km stretch of the beach are mounds of waste, leaving locals worried about their health.

The garbage at Kalinga Bali Yatra ground, which concluded last Friday, is an eyesore for onlookers.

The efforts of the municipal administration to clean it notwithstanding, locals are worried about the health hazards they may pose.

The worsening sanitation reflects on the illmaintaine

BHUBANESWAR: The wildlife wing of the Forest department has raised concerns over the setting up of 1,000 mw thermal power plant proposed by Tata Power Company at Naraj.

Its proximity to critical sites, impact of pollution on them as well as on the wildlife are issues the wildlife wing is worried about.

BHUBANESWAR: THE State Government had decided to electrify 2,000 villages by nonconventional energy sources by March, 2012. A decision to this effect was taken at a highlevel meeting presided over by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik here today.

So far the State Government has provided electricity to 395 villages by solar energy out of the 600 villages which had been taken up.

JHARSUGUDA: Hundreds of villagers locked gates 1 and 2 of Vedanta Aluminium Limited protesting ash emission from the 600 mega watt unit of Independent Power Plant of Sterlite Energy Limited (SEL) on Wednesday.

The unit restarted functioning on Monday.

BHUBANESWAR: While the State is facing power crisis due to poor hydro situation in the reservoirs, breakdown of three thermal power units of the National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) has further deepened the crisis.

Two units of 500 MW each of the Talcher Super Thermal Power Station (TSTPS) at Kaniha went out of the State grid due to technical reasons.

As if it was not enough, one unit

BHUBANESWAR: Orissa already among top investment destinations, the State Pollution Control Board (SPCB) has chalked out plans which will give industries a regulatory frame-work that is responsive, efficient, equipped with a sound enforcement mechanism and scientific at the same time.

The pollution watchdog of the State has already stitched up plans for the future by readying its Vision-2030 wh