Source: DNA, By Javed Iqbal Published: Sunday, Jan 8, 2012, 8:00 IST  (This could be the fate of Western Orissa too) When miner Dansingh Bodra was asked about the people from his village who he worked with in the asbestos mines of Roro, who have all died before their time, he slowly starts counting, ...

News Source: TOI NEW DELHI: Did Prime Minister Manmohan Singh underplay China's superiority over India in the field of science, research and technology? Analysis of new data shared at the National Science Congress shows that China has been far ahead of India for a decade and the wide gap between the two has ...

News Source: TOI PUNE: India is not match for neighbouring China when it comes to social development indicators, eminent economist and Nobel laureate Amartya Sen has said. "There is a huge gap there (on social front) as China is one ...

News Source: Daily Pioneer The State Government on Saturday asked the Jharsuguda district administration to undertake land acquisition process for the required 40 acres for construction of a runway for the Jharsuguda airstrip. According to Chief Secretary BK Patnaik, the Government has decided to develop the State’s oldest airstrip at Jharsuguda, the ...

News source : Times of India Odisha is all set to get a second sainik school at Goshala near Sambalpur, home secretary M S Padhi said here on Friday. "The state government has decided to start the second sainik school. The process is on track," Padhi told reporters. Principal of Sainik School Bhubaneswar, Capt K ...

News Source: http://business-standard.com Revenue collection in the state grew by 34.42 per cent in the April-September period of the current fiscal helped mainly by robust collection from non-ferrous mining and metallurgical industries as the state achieved more than half of the budgetary estimates (BE) for the fiscal in the first ...

News Source: TOI A Supreme Court-appointed commission on food security on Friday expressed dissatisfaction with the state government's handling of the hunger issue and advised it to forthwith intervene in areas suffering from malnutrition and starvation deaths. "The state government must identify hunger and severe malnutrition pockets and ensure people were not ...

News Source: Express News Service The state government has started work on development of a railway corridor through Choudwar to Rourkela to allow ease of inward and outward transportation of goods from the industrial hubs and mining belts along the region. Land acquisition for the project, the first of its kind initiative ...

News source: Orissa Diary   Sulochana Majhi, a resident of Bhagipali village in Jharsuguda district of Orissa, comes from a very poor family. She lost her husband at an early age and after a rift with the in-laws, she walked ...