Indian Metals & Ferro Alloys Ltd (IMFA) is planning to spend Rs 6,600 crore over the next five years to set up a 1,320-Mw power plant in Orissa.
With this, IMFA, which currently produces power for its own captive use as a part of its backward integration strategy, will become a commercial power generator. The company is India’s largest producer of ferro alloys, used in manufacturing of stainless steel.
BHUBANESWAR: Members cutting across party lines on Monday demanded scrapping of the MoU for the Sindol project even as Speaker Pradeep Amat suggested setting up of a House Committee to gauge public
Bhubaneswar: IIT, Kharagpur on Monday presented the Cuttack Comprehensive Development Plan (CDP) Vision 2030, to chief minister Naveen Patnaik at the State Secretariat here.
BHUBANESWAR: The State Government has decided to develop Cuttack City and its environs with an investment of Rs 18,940 crore. Out of that, the State Government’s share will be Rs 5,000 crore.
CUTTACK: The war over diversion of Mahanadi water to industries from Cuttack has assumed a new dimension with the Orissa High Court stepping in on Friday to issue a stay on the constructions on the
Bhubaneswar Just what is taking the Orissa government so long to renew the MoU with Posco that expired last June? Chief secretary BK Patnaik says he is thoroughly examining the MoU in view of the
Bhubaneswar: Activists of non-Congress political parties on Monday staged demonstrations at several places in state protesting against the petrol price hike and demanding an immediate roll-back.
Biju Yuva Janata Dal (BYJD) in a memorandum to President Pratibha Patil describing the price hike as arbitrary and illogical and sought her intervention in the matter.
CUTTACK: Brace up for sparkling clean, dust-free roads along with unclogged drains and water channels from Tuesday as the millennium city switched to the state-of-the-art mechanised sweeping and sanitation processes from Monday.
Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik inaugurated the first-of-its-kind Integrated Municipal Solid Waste Management project in the State which includes the mechanised sweeping
CUTTACK: The Orissa High Court today directed the State Government to file its response to a PIL on the large-scale irregularities in the supply of dal to schools under the mid-day meal (MDM) programme.
A Division Bench of Chief Justice V Gopalagowda and Justice BN Mohapatra has also directed the secretary, Women and Child Development Department, to file an affidavit by next week indicating wha
BHUBANESWAR: For instilling a sense of sanitation and making people aware of use of toilets 81 panchayats of nine districts will get Nirmal Gram Puraskar (NGP), a national award for fully sanitised and open defecation-free panchayats under Total Sanitation Programme-2010.
Representatives of 12 panchayats will be awarded by President of India for total sanitation at a national-level function in
