The construction for the proposed 6MTPA steel plant of Tata Steel in Kalinga Nagar would start in a month, its managing director B. Muthuraman said. The Rs 21,000-crore project has been in limbo for more than two years after 14 tribal villagers died in a clash with police while resisting the construction of a boundary wall by the Tatas on January 2, 2006.

School teachers in many parts of the country find the government

Bhubaneswar: Tension continued to grip the Posco project site in Jagatsinghpur on Sunday as 26 people were arrested for allegedly killing an anti-land acquisition activist. The anti-land acquisition brigade began observance of

Authorities in eastern India arrested at least 100 villagers and deployed a huge police force to quell a protest against a proposed deep-sea port, officials said on Monday. Villagers in Orissa state, fearing they will lose their land without adequate compensation, forced officials to suspend construction work late on Sunday in Dhamra, where India is planning to build one of its biggest ports. The proposed port on the eastern coast will handle 83 million tonnes of cargo per year, said Santosh Mohapatra, chief executive of Dhamra Port Company Ltd.

One step forward and two steps backward. This apparently is how Posco's proposed mega Rs 51,000-crore steel plant in Orissa has progressed for last three years.

The Union ministry of environment and forests wants media-savvy forest officers. Concerned at the "negative coverage' of forest, wildlife and environment-related issues, it organised a training

There's more to the gulmohar tree than what the paperbacks or college annuals say. Scientists at the regional research laboratory in Bhubaneshwar have produced several natural dyes from different

The CAG blames the Orissa government's failure to provide safe potable water for the outbreak of diseases in the State.

Rural Poor

The Sukruli cauldron threatens to boil over if the Orissa government does not act against the smoke spewing sponge iron plant in the area.