Bhubaneswar: The Congress on Monday demanded a white paper from the chief minister Naveen Patnaik, on the steps taken by his government to discuss the Polavaram issue with the Centre and the Andhra Pradesh administration.

Briefing newsmen here, senior Congress leader Umesh Chandra Swain urged the state government to make public all communications made by the chief minister with Ministry of Envi

BHUBANESWAR: Former Congress MLA Umesh Swain on Monday said that the proposed Posco steel plant should be shifted from the present location to a place south of Jatadhari mouth as displacement will be minimum in this case.

Addressing mediapersons here, Swain said that the BJD managers who are organising a rally at Jagatsinghpur on September 18 in support of the proposed plant should persuade the

The Naveen Patnaik government on Sunday came down heavily on the Congress-led government at the Centre saying it was behaving like a party instead of maintaining its character as a responsible constitutional authority.
Seven ministers, two Lok Sabha members and 25 MLAs, who addressed a gathering of party workers at Malkangiri protesting the Centre

BHUBANESWAR: POLITICS apart, the facts and figures over the proposed Polavaram project that threatens to submerge 29 tribal villages in Orissa, belie the Centre's claim. The Union Environment Ministry has accepted the Andhra Pradesh Government's promise that with appropriate technical interventions, submergence could be avoided in Orissa's Mottu taluk.

BHUBANESWAR: Biju Janata Dal leaders on Sunday slammed the Centre for giving final clearance to the controversial Indira Sagar Polavaram project by ignoring protests from Orissa where 20,000 tribal families of 29 villages are going to be displaced by the dam.

Addressing the 'Malkangiri banchao, Polavaram hatao' rally, the BJD leaders, including seven ministers, announced that not an inch of lan

Will Polavaram be another ecocide zone? Not if we apply the Vedanta logic to it.

The Polavaram dam across the river Godavari has been a dream project for several governments in Andhra Pradesh. Most of them had to let it stay at that

BHUBANESWAR: THE Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) today urged Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik to convene an all-party meeting on the Polavaram issue if his Government is really concerned for the interests of the State.

Pradesh BJYM president Bibhuti Jena told a media conference here that all political parties of the State are ready to fight the Congress-led UPA Government at the Centre for

BHUBANESWAR: Maintaining that the Centre had given conditional clearance to Polavaram dam project, the Orissa Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC) criticised the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) for trying to politicise the issue.

BJD is trying to politicise the issue even after the assurance given by Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh to Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik that al

BHUBANESWAR: President of Utkal Bharat party Kharabela Swain today dared the Government to prove that Polavaram multi-purpose irrigation project will adversely affect the State.

Environmental fundamentalism is proving a major hurdle to economic development in India
A V Rajwade / New Delhi September 06, 2010, 0:39 IST

Continuing the last week