Bhubaneswar, March 29 (Odisha.in) Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Friday sought immediate halt to the construction work carried out by Andhra Pradesh government for multi-purpose Polavaram irrigation project. Describing the project against the interest of Odisha, the chief minister met the Union Minister of Water Resources Harish Rawat in New Delhi and asked him […]
Archives for March 2013
14 Odisha Holi revellers drowned
Bhubaneswar, March 29 (Odisha.in) People across Odisha on Thursday celebrated the festival of colour ‘Holi’ with religious fervor, but the occasion also marked by tragedies as at least 14 people mostly young men lost their lives from drowning. While highest ten deaths were reported in and around state capital Bhubaneswar, two persons died in the […]
Bhubaneswar sizzles at 41.2 degree Celsius
Bhubaneswar, March 26 (Odisha.in) Odisha capital Bhubaneswar sizzled on Tuesday with mercury touched 41.2 degree; the day’s highest in the state, official said. Three other towns Baripada, Sambalpur and Titilagarh also saw high temperature by recording 41.0, 40.4 and 40.2 degree Celsius respectively. The state meteorological centre here was yet to issue a heat wave […]
Jairam backs tribal status demand by Konda Reddy community
Bhubaneswar, March 26 (Odisha.in) The Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh has urged the Union Tribal Affairs minister V.Kishore Chandra Deo to address the issues of Odisha’s Konda Reddy community who have been seeking tribal status since a long time. About 25,000 people of the community mostly live in the southern district of state’s Malkangiri […]
NALCO targets 10 pct rise in 2013/14 revenue
Bhubaneswar, March 25 (Odisha.in) The state-own National Aluminium Co Ltd (NALCO) is targeting an revenue of 77.57 billion rupees for the next fiscal year, about 10 percent higher than the current year’s target, the company here said. NALCO, India’s third-largest aluminium maker, on Monday signed a pact with the mines ministry on physical and financial […]