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.
The Special Operation Group (SOG), an elite Commando unit of the Odisha police, on Thursday gunned down a maoist cadre of outlawed the Communist Party of India (Maoist) outfit in a dense forest area along the Odisha-Chhattisgarh border in Malkangiri district
A proper and foolproof early warning system holds the key to successful handling of natural disasters, and Odisha has been able to tackle nature’s fury effectively over the years, Pujari said.
An officer of the Odisha State Police Housing Welfare Corporation, who allegedly amassed ill-gotten wealth disproportionate to his known sources of income, threw away bundles of currency notes worth Rs 10 lakh on a neighbour's terrace here to thwart a raid by the anti-corruption vigilance department on Monday.
Of the multiplicity of unnatural reasons like poaching, electrocution, train & road kills and even falling into open wells, electrocution stays at the top of the leading causes for unnatural deaths.
Three elephants were allegedly electrocuted after coming in contact with live wire traps laid by poachers in forest areas of Odisha’s Sambalpur district, a senior forest official said on Monday.
