Bhubaneswar: The decision of the Odisha government to resume land acquisition for the proposed steel plant near Paradip in Jagatsinghpur district from Wednesday faced trouble on Monday with villagers supporting the project announcing non-cooperation and opponents demanding relocation of the proposed plant site from the fertile land.

Though we want establishment of Posco steel plant here, we wil

Bhubaneswar: Activists of non-Congress political parties on Monday staged demonstrations at several places in state protesting against the petrol price hike and demanding an immediate roll-back.

Biju Yuva Janata Dal (BYJD) in a memorandum to President Pratibha Patil describing the price hike as arbitrary and illogical and sought her intervention in the matter.

It demanded regulation of the p

Bhubaneswar: The Planning Commission today approved Odisha's annual plan of Rs15,200 crore for 2011-12, up from Rs11,000 crore for the last fiscal.

The state annual Plan was finalised here at a meeting between Planning Commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia and chief minister Naveen Patnaik, an official statement said.

Commenting on the performance of the state, Ahluwalia said tha

Bhubaneswar: South Korean steel major Posco has been asked to submit an application for renewal of its lapsed MoU with the Odisha government in view of the comments by Union environment minister Jairam Ramesh over the export of iron ore in the earlier memorandum.
The Union minister has made some suggestions over the export clause in the lapsed MoU.

Bhubaneswar: A day after the Centre gave the final forest clearance to the South Korean steel major Posco

Bhubaneswar: Seeking investment in the backward KBK (Kalahandi-Bolangir-Koraput) region in the state, the Odisha government on Monday approved investments of Rs1045 crore in power and petroleum sectors, official sources said.

The state government is working out a policy on how to mobilise investment in KBK region.

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government on Monday said that it would take appropriate action on Posco project after receiving the order of the Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF) which accorded final approval for forest land diversion for the proposed mage steel unit.

We are yet to receive the order. We have just learnt from the media that such an order has been passed.

Bhubaneswar: Two of the world's leading steel-makers, ArcelorMittal and Posco, had proposed to invest Rs 91,000 crore for setting up mega steel units in Odisha, but their actual investment was negligible even about half a decade after signing MoUs with the state government.

While ArcelorMittal had proposed to invest Rs 40,000 crore on its proposed 12-mtpa greenfield steel mill in Keonjhar distr

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government has decided to seek an estimated Rs 3,000 crore for rural connectivity under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) from the rural development ministry during the 2011-12 fiscal.

Briefing newsmen after attending a high-level review meeting on the status and progress of the PMGSY in the state, presided over by chief minister Naveen Patnaik at the State Se

Bhubaneswar: Concerned over the unholy cartelization by the mineral transporters in the mining belt, the Odisha government on Monday asked the concerned district collectors and the Superintendent of Police to find out a mechanism to regulate the ever increasing transporting rates.

Besides, the government has also directed the SPs in concerned districts in the mining belts to locate the illegal

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