The Orissa government will challenge the final environmental clearance accorded by the Union Ministry of Environment and Forest to the Polavaram project on the river Godavari by the Andhra Pradesh government in Supreme Court within a couple of days.

The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) Eastern Chapter will promote the eastern region as prime investment block and introduce special initiative for the region while focusing on skill development, district development plans and sustainable development.

The demand for removal of Ravenshaw University Vice-Chancellor Devdas Chhotray gained momentum on Monday when newly appointed city Congress chief Mohammad Moquim met the striking students in the campus who are on hunger strike for last 13 days.

The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation on Monday began a three-day-long celebration of Local Self Government Day by lining up several projects to be inaugurated by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik and his ministerial colleagues.

The Orissa government today decided to raise the honorarium for home guards from Rs 110 to Rs 150 per day.

A fireworks trader was arrested on Monday in relation to the massive fire accident that gutted wholesale fireworks market in the city on Sunday morning.

The Orissa government has failed to rehabilitate the minority people affected by the Kandhamal riots two years back, Catholic Archdiocese of Cuttack-Bhubanesar Archbishop Rapheal Cheenath today said.

Two women died of swine flu in Orissa, taking the total number of deaths due to the influenza to 19 in the state since July, an official said Monday.

The four-member Central team that came to assess the implementation of the Forest Rights Act in the area chosen for the proposed steel plant of Posco-India Private Limited

A Zilla Parishad member and leader of Congress party, Anand Kirsani (38), was murdered by suspected Maoists in broad daylight in Koraput district of south Orissa on Sunday.

The Orissa State Pollution Control Board (OSPCB) has opined that increasing amount of land is being converted into ash ponds and solid waste disposal facilities

Through two-well conceived street plays, the Bhubaneswar unit of Song and Drama Division took up a week-long campaign to create awareness about burning issues of people living in and around the city.

Elections of students" unions will be held in all the government and non-government aided colleges on September 8 with the State government cautioning students to stay away from political parties.

Masters programme in tribal welfare and community development will soon been included in the list of new subjects and schools that have been approved by the executive council of Central University of Orissa which celebrated its first Foundation Day.

After Ib Valley-Jharsuguda figured in the national map as one of the critically polluted spots, the Orissa State Pollution Control Board (OSPCB) has come out with sectoral action-plans for abatement of pollution in the region.