Continuing its protest over the Rs 10,000-crore Polavaram power project on the Godavari river in neighbouring Andhra Pradesh, the Orissa government has filed a petition in the Supreme Court opposing the Centre

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Bhubaneshwar, Sept. 5: The ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) on Sunday upped its ante against the Centre and announced that it would hold a massive public rally at Malkangiri on September 12, to protest against the latter

Bhubaneswar: Taking a dig at the unilateral decision of the Centre to give go-ahead signal to the contentious Polavarm project in Andhra Pradesh, BJD Rajya Sabha MP Pyari Mohan Mohapatra on Thursday said that a protest meeting will be held in Malkangiri district soon.

Briefing newsmen here, Mohapatra, while terming the Centre

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The Orissa government would soon move the Supreme Court, seeking scrapping of the clearance granted by the Ministry of Environment and Forests to the multi-purpose Polavaram irrigation project on Godavari river in Andhra Pradesh, according to senior state officials.

State Water Resources Secretary Suresh Mohapatra told The Indian Express a petition would be filed before the apex court in a day

Joe C Mathew / New Delhi September 01, 2010, 1:20 IST

A 15-year agreement between India and Britain that assures equitable treatment to cross-border investors from both countries may technically permit Vedanta to seek legal action against the central government if its investments in Orissa suffer for no fault of the British company.

Vedanta, which has invested about Rs 45,000 crore in variou

The Orissa government will move the Supreme Court against the clearance granted by the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) to the Rs 10,000-crore Polavaram irrigation project on the Godavari in Andhra Pradesh.

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BHUBANESWAR: The State Government has decided to move the Supreme Court against the clearance granted by the Union Environment and Forest Ministry to the multi-purpose Polavaram irrigation project on the Godavari in Andhra Pradesh.

A petition will be filed in the Supreme Court in a day or two seeking scrapping of the forest clearance granted to the project as it will submerge several villages

Bhubaneswar: Terming UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi's nod to give national status to Congress-led Andhra Pradesh Government as betrayal to Odisha, the Biju Yuva Janata Dal on Sunday threatened that it would resort to statewide protests in coming days.

In a release, BYJD state coordinator Sanjay Das Burma said that at least 29 villages along with thousands hectares of forest land would be submerge