Animal Husbandry, Fisheries and Minorities Welfare Minister Ajay Vishnoi handed over sanction letters of Rs one crore 93 lakh for the construction of dwellings of 429 poor beneficiary families under Indira Awas Yojana at the Rural Housing Fair and Benefit Distribution Programme at Patan in Jabalpur. He also provided pattas of housing land to 235 other houseless beneficiaries.

Jamshedpur, April 15: More than 100 people due to be displaced in the wake of Chandil dam

BHUBANESWAR: Even as Union Minister of State for Environment and Forest (MoEF) Jairam Ramesh put the conditional clearance to Posco project on hold basing on an e-mail, the Orissa Government report to the Centre has claimed that the anti-Posco activist have forged and fabricated documents on palli sabha resolutions.

"The palli sabha resolutions relating to Gobindpur and Dhinkia villages appende

A day after Union Environment and Forests Minister Jairam Ramesh put the forest clearance for the Rs 54,000- crore POSCO steel project on hold, the state government said it would closely examine the MoEF order before taking any further action.

On Thursday, Ramesh had held back forest clearance, asking the state government to recognise the rights of the people of Dhinkia and Gobindpur villages i

South Korean steelmaker Posco will have to wait a while longer before it can embark on its . 54,000-crore integrated steel plant and port project in Odisha.

JAIPUR: The ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) will institute national awards in the names of Amrita Devi and Gaura Devi, two women considered pioneers of India's environmental conservation movement.

SILENCING PROTEST?
New Delhi: The Orissa government on Wednesday dismissed the resolutions of the villages claiming rights over the land it wants to give to the Posco Integrated Steel Plant.