Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government on Thursday said that it would study the notice served to it by the Supreme Court on the case relating to bauxite mining proposal at Niyamgiri in Kalahandi district.

We have not seen the Supreme Court direction yet.

Bhubaneswar: Chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Friday said that the letter of Union environment minister Jairam Ramesh to the state putting on hold the forest clearance to the Posco greenfield steel cum captive power plant and asking to stick to provisions of Forest Rights Act, will be sent to forest department for verification.

After forest department's scrutiny, we will respond to the MoEF, Pa

Jagatsinghpur: The anti-Posco activists under the banner of Posco Pratirodha Sangram Samiti (PPSS) on Thursday decided to congregate at a meeting at Patanahat on Friday in protest against the assurance report submitted by the Odisha government on Wednesday to the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF).

In the protest meeting the activists have decided to burn the copy of the assurance repor

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government on Thursday said that it would soon renew the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with South Korean steel major Posco for its proposed steel plant near Paradip in Jagatsinghpur district.

The steel and mines department has already received the recommendation of the law department in this regard.

The nodal department will soon invite Posco for renewal of the Mo

Bhubaneswar: In a setback to the Odisha government, the Supreme Court on Monday rejected its plea to stay construction of the controversial multi-purpose Polavaram irrigation project on river Godavari by Andhra Pradesh.

A Bench headed by Justice Mukundakam Sharma directed former Central Water Commission (CWC) member M Gopalakrishnan to inspect the project along with the present CWC members and

Bhubaneswar: Maintaining its earlier stand that there was no tribal inhabitant or traditional forest dwellers in the villages demarcated for Posco's mega steel plant near Paradip, the Odisha government on Sunday said that it was likely to submit its assurance report to the Centre next week.

Chief secretary Bijay Kumar Patnaik said this while informing that chief minister Naveen Patnaik had alre

Admitting gross mismanagement in agriculture department, the Odisha government on Thursday said that it would set up a high-level inquiry into the supply of alleged fake seeds and pulse kits to farmers during the rabi crop season.

Mismanagement in the agriculture department was admitted by its minister Damodar Rout while replying to an adjournment motion debate in the State Assembly here.

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Fisheries, which occupy a prime position amongst all the natural resources of Chilika lake, have started showing signs of recovery after recording low catch for years.

Supporting the livelihood of more than two lakh fisherfolks living in and around the lake, the fish fauna of Chilika Lake is characterized by the composite of freshwater, brackish and marine elements.

The fisheries in the lake

Cuttack: The Odisha High Court on Thursday granted a major relief to electricity consumers in the state when it stayed the proposed power tariff hike as planned by Odisha Electricity Regulatory Commission (OERC) from April 1.

Admitting a PIL filed in this connection, a division bench consisting of Justices B P Das and B K Mishra in an interim measure ordered that the power tariff as fixed by th

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government has agreed with South Koran steel major Posco India to allow swap of certain quantities of iron ore for production of better quality steel in its proposed 12 MTPA steel project near Paradip in Jagatsinghpur district.

Announcing this in the State Assembly here on Wednesday, steel and mines minister Raghunath Mohanty while replying to a question, said that the c

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