Bhubaneswar: ASteel and mines minister Raghunath Mohanty on Thursday give a hint in the State Assembly that the state government is considering to bring a motion in the House to ban export of miner

Bhubaneswar: TWith the Odisha government holding the climate change phenomenon as responsible for the back to back floods in the state which killed at least 87 people, the Opposition Congress on Th

Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma said that illegal mining and circumvention of the EXIM policy were matters of grave concern and has sought the Union Cabinet’s approval for tightening re

Bhubaneswar: The ongoing power crisis in Odisha on Wednesday took the centre-stage in the State Assembly with the Opposition members accusing the state government for doing nothing for the last 12

Bhubaneswar: Suspecting a nexus between rich mine owners and the UPA government at the Centre, chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Tuesday asked Congress MLAs to stop shedding crocodile tears over wel

BHUBANESWAR: The State Cabinet on Tuesday resolved to move the Centre to levy mineral resource rent tax on iron ore to be charged at 50 per cent of the surplus rent.

The mines ministry has ticked off Odisha for its failure to check mining irregularities, saying it should share the blame for illegal mining.

Bhubaneswar: Close on the heels of the House Committee recommendation, the Odisha government on Monday announced in the State Assembly that the proposed Sindol Hydel Project had been scraped.

Bhubaneswar: Chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Monday reiterated his demand that the Centre should not put any cap on the number of beneficiaries under the National Food Security Act.

CUTTACK: Even as the denizens of the millennium city continue to writhe under the sting of a severe mosquito menace, the use of larvicide is now at the centre of a tussle between the civic administ