Bhubaneswar: Health and family welfare minister Prasanna Acharya on Saturday said that the state government has decided to strengthen the infrastructure of the drugs control administration to ensur

RAYAGADA: Eight children have died in the last 10 days and as many as 30 are suffering from measles in the remote and inaccessible Silapas and Rayalghat villages under Jogipaitunga panchayat of Kas

BHUBANESWAR: Even as sewerage and drainage projects of Cuttack and Bhubaneswar planned under the Integrated Sanitation Improvement Programme, are scheduled to be completed in two years, the work is

BHUBANESWAR: In a major haul, forest sleuths seized at least nine truck loads of timber from an illegally running depot-cum-carpentry unit in Deulasahi near Bidanasi area of Cuttack in the wee hour

BHUBANESWAR: Repeated requests by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik to the Union Ministry of Power for additional allocation of power from the Central pool has fallen on deaf ears.

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government has written to the Mahanadi Coalfields Limited (MCL) proposing that the MCL set up a 10-MT-per-annum coal washery in joint venture between the MCL and the Odisha

Vedanta Aluminium's Lanjigarh project in Odisha may become another Kudankulam, as environment activists belonging to foreign non-Government organisations (NGO) have suddenly surfaced to show their

BHUBANESWAR: The State Government has requested the Mahanadi Coalfields Limited (MCL) to grant interim coal linkage to the Orissa Power Generation Corporation (OPGC) which is in the process of addi

BHUBANESWAR: The State Government on Saturday gave a proposal to Coal India Limited subsidiary Mahanadi Coalfields Limited (MCL) for setting up a coal washery and a coal reject-based power plant.

Chennai-based Neyveli Lignite Corporation Ltd (NLC), a navratna public sector unit, has evinced interest in setting up a 2,000-Mw coal-fired power unit in Odisha through a joint venture (JV) with a state government owned PSU. The proposal envisages an investment of around Rs 10,000 crore.

NLC would prefer to put it up in the vicinity of its allocated coal blocks,Talabira-2 and Talabira-3, situated under the command area of Mahanadi Coalfields Ltd.