Bhubaneswar: The ministry of environment and forest on Wednesday issued show cause notice to Vedanta Aluminum Ltd asking as to why the Stage II environment clearance should be given and why its six million expansion proposal of its aluminum refinery should not be stopped.

Just a few days ago, the ministry had rejected Vedanta

Bhubaneswar: Terming UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi's nod to give national status to Congress-led Andhra Pradesh Government as betrayal to Odisha, the Biju Yuva Janata Dal on Sunday threatened that it would resort to statewide protests in coming days.

In a release, BYJD state coordinator Sanjay Das Burma said that at least 29 villages along with thousands hectares of forest land would be submerge

Cuttack: While the Centre on several occasions has made its intentions clear that it was willing to provide all logistic support to the CBI if the country's premier investigating agency is entrusted to probe into the Rs 1,000-crore mining scam in Odisha, its counsel on Thursday sought at least 10 more days to file its counter in the Odisha High Court.

At least seven Public Interest Litigations

Bhubaneswar: Sending a note of assurance, the Centre on Thursday assured the Odisha government that no area of the state would be submerged due to coming up of the Polavaram project in Andhra Pradesh.

In a letter to chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Thursday, Union forest and environment minister Jairam Ramesh said that the Centre is as much concerned for Odisha as for Andhra Pradesh.

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Bhubaneswar: Though not invited to participate at the Forest Advisory Committee (FAC) meeting scheduled to be held in New Delhi on August 20, the Odisha government is still expecting an opportunity to explain its stand on Vedanta's controversial Niyamgiri mining project.

Though we were hopeful of getting an invitation to place our stand before the FAC, no communication had been received from th

Bhubaneswar: Apprehending a possible crop loss in Odisha this year, chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday directed the concerned department to make an action plan to combat drought-like situation in the state.

The directive of the chief minister came while reviewing precautionary measures on possible flood situation at the State Secretariat here.

The meeting revealed that districts like

Bhubaneswar: Three private companies have evinced interest to set up 2490-MW thermal power plants at an estimated cost of Rs 10,000 crore in Bhdrakh districts, energy minister Atanu Sabyasachi Nayak informed the State Assembly here on Tuesday.

Replying to a question during the Question Hour, he said that while L&T has decided to set up 1,680 MW capacity captive thermal power plant at Dhamra f

Balasore: Chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Monday said that no village will be in dark and every village of the state will be electrified by the end of 2012 as various schemes have been taken up.

Stating this while inaugurating a 132/33 KV grid sub-station at Basta in the district, he listed out several welfare measures undertaken by the state government for uplift of the poor, distress and und