BHUBANESWAR: In keeping with Government of India

In the first such rejection by any ministry, Union Mines Minister B K Handique has shot down a proposal by the Finance Ministry that sought 10 per cent or more disinvestment in state-owned aluminium giant Nalco. The government holds 87.15 per cent in the navratna company that earned profits of Rs 1,272 crore on a turnover of Rs 5,531 crore in 2008-09.

BHUBANESWAR: As traditional water sources are drying up and groundwater table is shrinking due to excessive exploitation, the Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD) has requested all the states to prepare village water security plan.

BHUBANESWAR: The State Government has decided to install tube wells in every block of the State to deal with the shortage of drinking water in rural areas in during the summer.

BHUBANESWAR: The avenues for amusement and entertainment may have gone up in the city, but good old Nandankanan Zoo continues to draw in the crowd as the tourists

BHUBANESWAR: The Indian Institute of Technology(IIT)-Bhubaneswar has proposed establishment of Innovative Centre for Climate Change (ICCC) here.

Director of IIT-Bhubanes w a r M a d h u s u d a n Chakraborty who met Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik here at the Secretariat today along with a team of experts gave this proposal to him.

BHUBANESWAR: Though Orissa has witnessed a drastic change in the physical features of elementary education, many things are yet to be achieved in terms of access and retention of the students in the State-run schools.

BHUBANESWAR: The whole world may have chosen to switch to darkness, Bhubaneswarites, barring, of course, some exceptions, did not have an hour for the earth.

CUTTACK: Even as Cuttack goes gung ho over hosting IPL on March 19 and 21, the matches at Barabati stadium could well set tone to the

Agriculture Minister Damodar Rout on Tuesday said in the State Assembly that the rising temperature of the climate was having an adverse impact on agriculture.