Tag: Jairam Ramesh

Bhubaneswar: Concerned over the alarming decline in the number of tigers in Odisha, senior Congress leader and former Union Environment and Forests minister Jairam Ramesh has urged the state government to take urgent steps to save the population of the magnificent predators in the state. In a letter to chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Sunday, […]

Drawing a similarity between the Prime Minister and the Odisha chief minister, senior Congress leader and former Union minister Jairam Ramesh today said both of them behave like the Mouni Babas (silent monks) when there is an incident of atrocity on the dalit and tribal communities

Senior Congress leader and former Union minister Jayram Ramesh today said the Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi is going to launch a nationwide campaign on the issue of implementation of Forest Rights Act (FRA) from August

Senior Congress leader and former Union minister Jairam Ramesh today said a Congress team from Odisha will visit Chhattisgarh within a week to conduct a ground study on the construction of barrages and dams and other proposed projects on Mahanadi river

Bhubaneswar: Former Union Environment minister Jairam Ramesh on Saturday said the Kandhamal incident in which five innocent villagers of Gumudmaha village in Phulbani district were killed will be raised in Parliament. Before leaving for Baliguda in Kandhamal district along with an All India Congress Committee (AICC) delegation and state party leaders, Ramesh said the incident […]

Senior Congress leader and former Union minister Jairam Ramesh on Saturday dubbed Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik and prime minister Narendra Modi as the two sides of a coin

The Congress on Sunday came down heavily on Prime Minister Narendra Modi for laxity in the CBI probe into the chit fund and mining scams in Odisha

The Centre on Tuesday asked the Odisha government to use cold mix technology for construction of roads under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY), preferably in IAP (integrated action plan) covered districts

Ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, the Government on Monday reached out to rural women by rolling out a Rs 1,400 crore interest subvention on loans taken by Self Help Groups working for their empowerment

Expressing concern over reported delay in payment of wages to the workers under MGNREGA, Union Minister Jairam Ramesh has asked Odisha government to clear the backlog immediately

The Centre has approved the Odisha government's proposal for constructing 788 roads covering 2,740 km and 17 bridges in the Integrated Action Plan and cyclone-affected districts under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana

New Delhi: National Security Advisor Ajit Doval’s son Vivek Doval on Monday told a Delhi Court that ‘The D Companies’ article published in The Caravan magazine was defamatory and lowered his and his father’s reputation. “The article in a very systematic way creates inferences and innuendos which make readers think that Vivek Doval and family […]

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday issued a notice to Centre seeking its stand on a plea filed by Congress MP Jairam Ramesh challenging the amendments made to the anti-money laundering law (PMLA) since 2015. Ramesh has filed an appeal in the Supreme Court after the Delhi High Court in February dismissed his plea […]