Tag: Jharsuguda

Farmers of 19 mouzas under Lakhanpur block in the district on Saturday decided to present a memorandum to Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his visit to Bargarh on February 21 urging him to merge their villages with Chhattisgarh, if they are not provided basic facilities, including irrigation

Cuttack: More skeletons are tumbling out of the closet of the Dhalasamant brothers every day. They had invested around Rs 200 crore in a Jharsuguda-based sponge iron company, revealed sources at the Commissionerate Police on Friday. During the interrogation, the D-brothers have also revealed that some of their aides are partners in the company, the […]

Jharsuguda: Sesa Sterlite, a Vedanta group company, is alleged to have encroached upon 246.74 acres of forest land and constructed an ash pond with a concrete boundary on the sprawling rural forest land for its 1,215-MW power plant at Bhurkamunda in the district.

State-run Orissa Power Generation Corporation (OPGC) has halted the operations of its only functional unit-1 power plant based in Jharsuguda yesterday for next 10 days

Bhubaneswar: An Odisha government panel on Thursday recommended final approval of Vedanta Ltd’s Rs 1,240 crore proposal to expand the capacity of its aluminium smelter unit in the state’s Jharsuguda from 1.6 to 1.8 million metric tonnes per annum (MMTPA), an official statement said. The 77th meeting of the State Level Single Window Clearance Authority […]

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Mineral Bearing Areas Development Corporation (OMBADC) has received a Rs 1,000 crore fund for development of mining-affected areas in the state, including Dhenkanal, Jharsuguda and Mayurbhanj, said an official on Wednesday. The official said projects worth Rs 900 crore have been approved for housing, drinking water, sanitation and afforestation activities in the […]

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Mineral Bearing Areas Development Corporation (OMBADC) has received a Rs 1,000 crore fund for development of mining-affected areas in the state, including Dhenkanal, Jharsuguda and Mayurbhanj, said an official on Wednesday. The official said projects worth Rs 900 crore have been approved for housing, drinking water, sanitation and afforestation activities in the […]

Cuttack: The Orissa High Court today quashed a petition filed by senior BJD leader Kishore Mohanty challenging the election of Congress’ Naba Das from Jharsuguda Assembly constituency. Mohanty, a former Assembly Speaker, had lost to Das by a margin of 1,563 votes in the April 2014 elections. Alleging that the election process, including counting of […]

Bhubaneswar: Searing heat persisted in western Odisha with Balangir becoming the hottest place in the state recording 43 degree celsius today, even as a nor’wester brought respite in the coastal region. The mercury breached the 40-degree mark in at least eight places in the state as Titlagarh, also in Balangir district, recorded a maximum temperature […]

Jharsuguda: Jharsuguda police today arrested two persons from Brajarajnagar here in connection with the alleged torture of a minor girl from Odisha in Bhiwani area of Haryana. The arrested two have been identified as uncle of the minor girl, Tankadhar and her neighbour, Ajay Ganjari. On the other hand, two teams comprising police and district administrative […]

Jharsuguda: In a tragic incident, a minor boy died after getting stuck in a paddy thresher at Barangamala village under Tiliya panchayat in Jharsuguda district this morning. According to reports, one Krushna Chandra Bhoi was threshing grain in the thresher in his farmland when his four-year-old son, who was playing nearby, accidentally got trapped inside […]

Jharsuguda/Balasore: Illegal sand mining activities seem to be on the rise with two different cases being reported from Jharsuguda and Balasore districts today. In one such incident, Panchapada Revenue Inspector (RI) and Assistant RI had gone to the Panchapada ghat along the Ib River in Jharsuguda after complaints of rampant sand smuggling. However, according to […]

Jharsuguda: In a bizarre incident, a two and half-year old boy was left critically injured after the handle of a ladle got stuck in his throat at his home in Patrapalli village of Kirmira block in Jharsuguda district. The incident took place on late Sunday night when the toddler Amit Guru was playing with ladle […]

Jharsuguda: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has decided to oppose Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik’s scheduled visit to Jharsuguda on January 24. At a presser held at Brajarajnagar yesterday, BJP MLA Radharani Panda informed that Patnaik is scheduled to lay foundation stone for a cancer hospital in Jharsuguda while the matter is already sub-judice in […]

Bhubaneswar: After Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his recent Jharsuguda visit expressed concerns over the fact that Odisha farmers are not getting the Minimum Support Price (MSP) for their produce, NITI Aayog has now swung into action and sought certain crucial information from the State government. The Odisha Food and Civil Supplies Department has now […]