Rs 61,000 crore worth petrochemical project to take off in Odisha
Chairman IOCL A.S. Sahney met Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi on Tuesday to discuss progress of various ongoing and upcoming projects of IOCL in Odisha, said an official.
Chairman IOCL A.S. Sahney met Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi on Tuesday to discuss progress of various ongoing and upcoming projects of IOCL in Odisha, said an official.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi on Monday.
Twenty-four villages of the state will be declared Tsunami-ready by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO (IOC-UNESCO) in Hyderabad on December 26, two decades after the 2004 devastating Tsunami that hit them.
This significant initiative was formalized through the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in the presence of Bibhuti Bhushan Jena, Minister of Commerce and Transport.
Unseasonal rain triggered by deep depression since the past 48 hours has dealt a blow to farmers, mostly in coastal and southern parts of Odisha as steady downpour has damaged the harvest-ready paddy crops.
‘Shuttle by Dalmia Bharat’, a High-Performance Centre (HPC) dedicated to promoting excellence in badminton, was inaugurated recently at the Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar.
The elephant depredation occurred on Saturday night in Munda Sahi village as a herd of elephants pulled down a mud-walled house and later tossed a 12-year-old boy and a three-year-old baby girl in the air. Later they trampled them to death, said officials.
Police have registered cases against as many as 65 ineligible who reaped the benefit of old age pension social security scheme by way of forging documents in support of date of birth in Odisha’s Kendrapara district.
In an attempt to reduce traffic snarls and prevent environment pollution, the Odisha Government has decided to launch double-decker electric bus service in urban road routes of the state, said an official of state-run Capital Region Urban Transport (CRUT).
With as many as 857 elephants perishing in the last decade, Odisha has virtually turned into a graveyard for elephants, although national heritage animal status has been accorded to tuskers.
