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10 Odisha villages marooned in flash flood

At least 10 villages of Odisha's Kalahandi district were marooned in flood waters due to heavy rains at the catchment areas of river Indravati leading to disruption of road communications in......

Baby sold for Rs 600 in Orissa

Fearing social stigma, a 25-year-old unwed mother sold her newborn girl for Rs 600 in Bhawanipatna village in Kalahandi, Orissa, and disappeared after the incident.Kusum Majhi handed over her......

Cong to hard sell Food Bill and Sonia as messiah of poor

The Food Security Bill, the Land Acquisition Bill and the Aadhar card could bring electoral dividends to the government as it tries to hard to woo the poor, reports Renu Mittal Billed as a game......

Rahul to India Inc: 'We have to carry the poor with us'

What India is thirsting for now is a visionary partnership. We need to forge a new business compact, a new framework a new framework that responds to the 21st century. We are a brave, young......

Tribals migrate to work as bonded labourers

The Akhil Bharatiya Vanavasi Kalyan Ashram organisation, which works for the welfare of 10 crore Scheduled Tribes in the country, in its national executive committee at Howrah took a resolution to......

Third gram sabha rejects Niyamgiri mining plan

The villagers of Tadijhola in Kalahandi district of Odisha rejected the proposal for bauxite mining in Niyamgiri hills on Tuesday, becoming the third gram sabha to do so. Of 22 eligible voters in......

HC rejects Vedanta expansion bid plea

In a setback to Vedanta Aluminium Limited's plan for expansion of its refinery and captive power units in Kalahandi district, Orissa high court on Tuesday upheld the Centre's decision of stalling......

Green light for Vedanta refinery

The Vedanta group's Rs 3,600-crore (Rs 36 billion) alumina refinery in Orissa's Kalahandi district is likely to clear the final hurdle soon.Sources close to the development said a panel appointed......

Jolt for Vedanta as mining in Niyamgiri Hills voted out

In what could be a jolt for Vedanta Aluminium Ltd, the fate of the beleaguered proposal to mine bauxite in Odisha’s Niyamgiri Hills was sealed on Monday, with the seventh of the 12 gram......

Niyamgiri poised for voting on bauxite mining for Vedanta plant

The Supreme Court on April 18 ordered the villagers be provided with basic forest rights in form of the land titles A recent show on a local Doordarshan channel about Dongria Kondhs, indigenous......

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QNA

Q. Garden City of India ?
Pravin: A. more

http://qna.rediff.com/questions-and-answers/garden-city-of-india-/25764695/answers/

Q. Ghumura Folk Dance is famous in which state of india ?
Divya Kulkarni: A. Kalahandi more

http://qna.rediff.com/questions-and-answers/ghumura-folk-dance-is-famous-in-which-state-of-india-/25135346/answers/25764725

Q. Odisha mein kitne district hai ?
Divya Kulkarni: A. 25, Anugul Bargarh Bhadrak Balasore Balangir BoudhCuttack Deogarh Dhenkanal Gajapati Ganjam JagatsinghpurJajpur Jharsuguda Kalahandi...... more

http://qna.rediff.com/questions-and-answers/odisha-mein-kitne-district-hai-/25135346/answers/20408156

Q. On National Food security Law (NAC) is working on a draft Bill. The NAC has proposed a legal entitlement to subsidised foodgrains for 75 per cent of the country's total population.According to NAC's proposal, the government should provide 35 kg of foodgrains a month to "priority households" at a subsidised rate of Rs 1 per kg for millet, Rs 2 for wheat and Rs 3 for rice.For "general category" households, the NAC has suggested supplying 20 kg of foodgrains at a price not exceeding 50 per cent of the prevailing minimum support price - What implications it would ensure ?
Subrat Kumar Dash: A. if it is implemented in true sence my country will not face any KALAHANDI in future. However, for its total sucess GOI will again depend on states...... more

http://qna.rediff.com/questions-and-answers/on-national-food-security-law-nac-is-working-on-a-draft-bill/20408137/answers/20076828

Q. why is it that the rich of this world r only interested in the bling indulgences of life?? aint it strange that wen they contribute, sponsor, hold up for causes of those who r poor n backward n underpriviledged...yet they will alwayz spend their holidays n best times of life in all those costly tourist destinations instead of, u know, get a taste of wats down the echelons in there...places like the obsolete villages of the Himalayan foothills...the not so famous Konkani villages..the hutments of North-east Indian tribals??..Boss....how do they balance their lives..these rich wunz???
Venkatesaldevarajan: A. you are right ........well one has to live life that way too ...though i dont belong to rich one but obiviously i am not in the category of poor...... more

http://qna.rediff.com/questions-and-answers/why-is-it-that-the-rich-of-this-world-r-only-interested-in-t/20076794/answers/19275866

Web results for Kalahandi

Odisha govt submits reports to Centre on 12 gram sabhas in Niyamgiri

Bhubaneswar: Odisha government submits Centre reports on 12 gram sabhas, held in Rayagada and Kalahandi dists to decide Vedanta's mining plan in... ...

http://www.orissadiary.com/CurrentNews.asp?id=44602

State to get NABARD fund of Rs1,000 cr this year

For the year 2013-14, the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) has agreed upon a normative allocation of Rs1,000 crore to... ...

http://www.dailypioneer.com/state-editions/bhubaneswar/state-to-get-nabard-fund-of-rs1000-cr-this-year.html

Two killed in a group clash over land dispute

A clash between two families over land dispute has killed 2 people and seriously wounded 8 people in Kanduladangari village in Golamunda block of... ...

http://www.orissaindia.com/StateNewsDetail.asp?id=ON6395

Former IAF pilot shows direction to Kalahandi

Having long dominated the national conscience for poverty and backwardness, the southwestern part of Odisha is now getting politically vibrant.... ...

http://governancenow.com/news/regular-story/former-iaf-pilot-shows-direction-kalahandi

SEC seeks new dates for ULB polls in W Odisha

With the State Election Commission (SEC) seeking new dates for holding elections to 25 urban local bodies (ULBs) in nine Western Odisha districts,... ...

http://newindianexpress.com/states/odisha/SEC-seeks-new-dates-for-ULB-polls-in-W-Odisha/2013/10/03/article1815891.ece

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10 Odisha villages marooned in flash flood

Baby sold for Rs 600 in Orissa

Cong to hard sell Food Bill and Sonia as messiah of poor

Rahul to India Inc: 'We have to carry the poor with us'

Tribals migrate to work as bonded labourers

Third gram sabha rejects Niyamgiri mining plan

HC rejects Vedanta expansion bid plea

Green light for Vedanta refinery

Jolt for Vedanta as mining in Niyamgiri Hills voted out

Niyamgiri poised for voting on bauxite mining for Vedanta plant

People speak for kalahandi

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