BHUBANESWAR: The State Level Single Window Clearance Authority (SLSWCA) today approved 16 projects, including 10 new ones, with proposed investment of Rs 30,000 crore to keep the process of industrialisation rolling.

The projects once completed will generate employment to 47,000 people. Chief Secretary TK Mishra presided over the meeting of the committee.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Sunday offered a robust defence of reforms that he had initiated in the Narasimha Rao government in 1991-92 and said that since then, the percentage of population below the poverty line had not increased and had, instead, continued to decline.

BHUBANESWAR: Land prices have shot through the roof, buildings have mushroomed, roads are wider, trees have vanished and possible open space is taken. That

BHUBANESWAR: The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) has sanctioned Rs 272.22 crore loan to the state under the Rural Infrastructure Development Fund (RIDF) for irrigation and road projects.

APEDA chairman Asit Tripathy addressing stakeholders at a training programme on the soon to be launched Traceability system for organic products, in B

BHUBANESWAR: Bhubaneswar could become the first

BHUBANESWAR: There is a serious need to redraft the proposed National Green Tribunal Bill-2009 (NGTB) as it lacks specifics in its present form and would neither do justice to the environment nor be an effective remedy for the affected people.

BHUBANESWAR: Sustainability of crop production depends greatly on soil fertility management. Though organic manures and bio-fertilisers can be supplements it to some extent, scientists feel that there is a greater challenge ahead to meet the projected food grain production by 2025.

BHUBANESWAR: Nimapara: Jagatsighpur MP Bibhu Prasad Tarai said providing drinking water to each household in his constituency is his priority. Inaugurating two piped water supply projects at Tulasipur and Tentuliguan villages under Nimapara block yesterday, he urged people to use bio-resources to arrest environmental degradation.

BHUBANESWAR: It was not botulism or food-poisoning which killed the dozen villagers in Kandhamal

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