PARADIP: An uneasy calm prevails in Dhinkia panchayat, the proposed Posco site, with irate villagers of Dhinkia, Gobindpur, Patana and Noliasahi digging up approach roads at 15 points from Jatadhari mouth to Dhinkia to prevent officials and police from entering the project site.

PARADIP: Tension mounted at Sandhkuda area over eviction of 445 families from the slum area for construction of sea surge protection wall and laying of pipeline of oil refinery project of IOC.

In the review meeting held last week, State Chief Secretary Bijya Pattnaik directed the district administration to evict these families at the earliest to make way for laying of pipeline for oil refinery

BALASORE: The district has lately witnessed some frightening scenes with wild elephants from forests in the neighbouring states going on the rampage here.

MUMBAI: A project on the use of geoinformatics in the implementation of the Forest Rights Act, 2006 in Maharashtra by the Tribal Research and Training Institute (TRTI), Pune has been given the National e-Governance award, 2010-11 (Silver) in Aurangabad on Thursday.

Even though Maharashtra has a poor track record of granting forest rights, the award recognises the exemplary re-use of Information

DHINKIA: The agitation against land acquisition for the Posco steel plant intensified in this seaside gram panchayat in Jagatsinghpur district on Sunday, with the villagers damaging an approach road to the area earmarked for the project.

Led by Abhay Sahu, chairman of the Posco Pratirodh Sangram Samiti, which has been spearheading the protest since July 2005, more than 150 people from different

Profit-making public sector undertakings are mandated to spend 0.5 to 5% of their net profit on corporate social responsibility (CSR). Loss-making PSUs are advised, by the department of public enterprises, to involve social sector processes in their business activities without spending additional funds.

Mizoram-Tripura border Mamit district administration officials were conducting re-verification of the 28 Bru families who returned on their own during January from North Tripura relief camps and were not enrolled in the Mizoram

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The Odisha government has distributed the highest number of certificates of titles to tribal forest-dwellers and is ranked number one in this respect in the country.

By the end of January 2011, the State Government has provided 2,43,602 pattas (certificates of titles to land) to Scheduled Tribes forest-dwellers covering an area of 3,84,653 acres under the individual claims, said ST and SC Dev