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Centre defers decision on Vedanta's proposal to divert 708 hectares of forest land for Sijimali Bauxite MinesThe Union Environment Ministry has delayed Vedanta's bauxite mining project in Odisha due to concerns over community consent and ecological...
Kalahandi no longer land of hunger, now Odisha's rice bowl: Naveen PatnaikAddressing a public meeting attended by people who have tested negative for COVID-19, Patnaik recalled his father and former chief minister...
Centre, Odisha to form new company for implementing railway projectsA joint working group is being constituted to resolve the issues like setting up of rail wagon repair factories at Narla in Kalahandi and S...
Congress calls Kalahandi bandh over rail projectThe opposition Congress today decided to intensify its agitation over the Railway decision to shift the proposed rail wagon repair factory ...
Naveen Patnaik launches Rs 3,200 crore Biju Expressway projectWhile the first phase of the project is scheduled to be completed by May 2017, the second phase completion target has been fixed by end of ...
Green nod difficult if panchayats oppose: Veerappa MoilyThe Supreme Court had recently stalled the project till gram sabhas of Rayagada and Kalahandi districts in the state give clearance to it.
Odisha to give bauxite to VedantaOdisha min today said that rejection of the mining proposal on Niyamgiri hills was unfortunate'and steps would be taken to source bauxite f...
Kalahandi's Dongria Kondhs refuse to allow Vedanta mine bauxite from Niyamgiri hillsThe villagers have made it clear that mining of bauxite at the Niyamgiri hills would adversely affect their religious, cultural life and th...
- Odisha contemplating legal opinion over expansion of gram sabhas
The Ministry of Tribal Affairs and local tribes have demanded conducting of gram sabhas in more villages and it has opposed the govt bid to...
Mining leads to poverty: Jairam Ramesh to tribals“Mining only leads to greater poverty,” Jairam Ramesh, Union Minister of Rural Development explained to the tribals of Lanjigarh, Odisha at...
Tribal centric development to tackle Maoist menace: RameshCentre announces packages worth Rs 300 crore for tribal development and livelihood projects in Kalahandi district of Odisha to tackle Maois...
- BJD to counter Rahul's Aug 26 rally near Vedanta unit
Pushed to a corner for its alleged favour to controversial Vedanta projects, ruling BJD in Orissa is set to hold a rally on Friday near the...
- 'Mining industry needs an image makeover'
NAC member and former bureaucrat N C Saxena headed four member panel which recommended that Orissa Mining Corporation not be permitted on N...
- Mining as issue
An amazing lack of socio-cultural sensitivity is provoking endless controversy and delaying much-needed investment in Kalahandi.
It's tribal faith vs Vedanta might in Kalahandi forestsKalahandi has always captured the national imagination, but never for the right reasons.
- SPV formed for development of primitive tribals
Orissa government has finally begun acting to take proper measures for the development of primitive tribes thanks to the intervention by th...
- Grant Rs 120 cr for Vijaywada-Ranchi NH: Plan Commission
The Planning Commission has recommended granting of Rs 120 crore for the proposed Vijayawada-Ranchi National Highway which would pass throu...