After Agriculture and food minister Sharad Pawar had rejected the Supreme Court proposal for free distribution of excess foodgrains in the government godowns instead of allowing them to rot, the top court again questioned the Centre on "inadequate" storage facilities, saying it would not allow such wastage when people were "dying" of hunger.

"This matter (supply of food to BPL families) is pend

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has rejected the Planning Commission

THEY were once held up as the three core projects that would catapult Orissa into the big league and as one of the most favoured business destinations globally.

KORAPUT: Villagers in the periphery of Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) in Koraput are irked over the company's lackadaisical attitude in providing adequate health services.

Hundreds of women widowed by the Bhopal gas tragedy protested here on Thursday, demanding adequate pension and enhanced compensation.
The members of the Bhopal Gas Peedit Nirashrit Pension Bhogi Sangharsh Morcha led the rally of the widows and shouted slogans, demanding a raise in pension from the State Government.

"It's been 26 years since the gas tragedy and in these 26 years the condition o

The 2010 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science was awarded on Monday to Peter A Diamond, Dale T Mortensen and Christopher A Pissarides for their work on markets where buyers and sellers have difficulty finding each other, in particular in labour markets.
For decades, the researchers have studied what happens when a market is not made up of identical, cookie-cutter units

BHAWANIPATNA: The delay in the implementation of Sakhar Bharat Adult Literacy Programme in Kalahandi has raised a question mark on the success of the programme in the given time frame.

WITH the fate of the Yeddyurappa government hanging in the balance, following withdrawal of support by 19 MLAs, the BJP leadership threatened to use the anti-defection law to quell the rebellion and survive the trust vote.

State tourism minister G Janardhana Reddy was leading the efforts to persuade the dissident camp to call off the rebellion.

Bhubaneswar: At least 42 people including 10 women and eight children are missing in mid-sea off the Odisha coast and their boat remained untraced since yesterday due to a low pressure area in the Bay of Bengal.

We have requisitioned a helicopter to trace the missing people in the sea, Bhadrak district collector KC Patra said.

Rescue teams of the Indian navy, coast guard and marine police co

Although symbolic, the protest is a sign that the selfsufficient Malayali tribals are turning restive due to modernisation in the hill station
CLAIMING ancestral ownership to the land at Pagoda Point tourist spot in Yercaud where Tamil Nadu Housing Board (TNHB) has developed resort-type individual dwellings for sale, tribals in Yercaud tried to occupy the unsold houses today and werearrested.