Bhubaneswar, Dec 19 (IANS) Intensifying its crackdown on illegal mining, authorities in Orissa have asked operators of five more mines to suspend operations, an official said Saturday.
The mines asked to suspend operations by the state forest department are located in the mineral-rich Keonjhar district, divisional forest officer S.K. Mohanty told IANS.
The miners have been served [...]
Jhakri (HP), Dec 12 (ANI): Construction activities for the Satluj Jal Vidyut Nigam (formerly Nathpa Jhakri Power Corporation Limited), a hydroelectric power project in Himachal Pradesh, has caused immense damage to the houses of many locals in the region.
The Jhakri project coming up on the River Satluj is one of the largest and longest [...]
Patna, Dec 10 (IANS) Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said Thursday he favoured the creation of more smaller states in the country for ‘good governance and development’.
‘I am strongly in favour of creation of more smaller states in India for good governance and development,’ Nitish Kumar said here after the central government agreed to the [...]
Bhubaneswar, Dec 10 (IANS) The central government has asked one more mine operator in mineral-rich Orissa to suspend work for violating mining norms.
The Indian Bureau of Mines Wednesday asked the operations of the Thakurani Iron and Manganese Mines in Keonjhar district to be stopped for violation of norms, an official of the bureau told IANS.
The [...]
Bhubaneswar, Dec 4 (IANS) The closure and suspension of work in more than 50 iron ore mines in Orissa over the past month has hit supplies to Paradip port for export, a port official said.
Paradip port, in Orissa’s Jagatsinghpur district, some 100 km from here, received 200 rakes of iron ore last month against 218 [...]
Bhubaneswar, Dec 3 (IANS) The Orissa vigilance department Thursday filed criminal cases against the state’s two leading companies for their alleged involvement in illegal mining, a senior official said.
‘The cases have been filed against Indrani Patnaik Mines and Triveni Earth Movers at vigilance police station at Balasore,’ Vigilance Department Director Anup Kumar Patnaik told IANS. [...]
George Town (Malaysia), Nov 26 (ANI): Some 100,000 shoppers are expected at the inaugural Penang International Indian Shopping Festival 2009.
A total of 65 booths selling apparel, jewellery, handicraft and other items have been set up in the foyer of the Penang Times Square for the festival, which ends on November 30.
Sales were brisk at [...]
Patna, Nov 24 (IANS) Bihar is poised to be one of the leading states in India, asserted Chief Minister Nitish Kumar whose NDA government completed four years in power Tuesday.
‘Our state is poised to be counted as one of the leading states in the country. The central government and other state governments have not only [...]
Patna, Nov 23 (ANI): Over hundred slum kids took out a rally here today demanding better educational facilities in the state.
The children took out the rally up to the residence of the state Governor, Debananda Konwar to present their demands.
“There is lack of basic amenities. If kids go [...]
Bhubaneswar, Nov 21 (IANS) Orissa’s vigilance department has filed five criminal cases against firms and people allegedly involved in illegal mining in the state, an official said Saturday.
‘The cases were filed against various people and operators of mining companies which include Sirajuddin & Co and Rungta mines,’ Superintendent of police (vigilance) D.D Patnaik said.
‘We have [...]
Bhubaneswar, Nov 18 (IANS) The Orissa government has ordered suspension of work in 59 more mines, taking the total number of mines served such notices this month to 128, an official said Wednesday.
The mines were served notices for alleged illegal mining in Orissa.
‘All together, the number of mines served show cause notices by Wednesday is [...]
New Delhi, Nov 14 (IANS) She may not be able to define climate change, but Ethel Sumi of Nagaland knows it delayed the monsoons in her region this year, which in turn affected the paddy crop drastically.
Boasting of perfect weather and rich flora and fauna, the eight states in India’s northeast are often said to [...]
Bangalore, Nov 1 (IANS) A bitter feud in the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), close on the heels of the flood havoc in the state’s northern parts, made Karnataka’s formation day celebrations Sunday a listless affair.
States in India were reorganized on the basis of language Nov 1, 1956. It is celebrated as ‘Rajyothsava’ in [...]
New Delhi, Oct. 31 (ANI): Maoists have killed three persons of the same family for money in the Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh, police have said.
A group of almost 60 Maoists barged in to the house of three brothers, Jai, Tileshwar and Lachinder at Kidrepal village in the early hours on Thursday and brutally killed them [...]
Mumbai, Sep.8 (ANI): Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra has come forward to support the ‘Save the Children’ campaign which aims to provide quality education to eight million children living in conflict-affected areas.
‘Save the Children’ also works to secure, protects children’s rights to food, shelter, health care, freedom from violence, abuse and exploitation.
Chopra, who has already been [...]
