What India can learn from Odisha

'Evacuation' has been key to disaster management in Odisha.The aim is to achieve zero casualty.Dillip Satapathy meets the two men who took up the herculean task of shifting people. IMAGE: Odisha......

Hospital horror: In Odisha, sweeper stitches patient after delivery

A sweeper in a government-run hospital in Odisha’s Jagatsinghpur district had to stitch on a woman who delivered a baby as the doctor had left the operation theatre. The incident took place......

Posco land acquisition amid police-protesters clashes

After being halted for more than a year, land acquisition for the showpiece Rs 52,000-crore Posco steel plant in Odisha resumed on Sunday amid clashes between police and protesters. The acquisition......

Assaulted Dalit woman dies at Cuttack hospital

A Dalit woman, who was allegedly assaulted and paraded naked by a mob at her native Kujang village in Cuttack district last month, died in a hospital in Cuttack on Monday.Sasmita Mallick, who was......

Welcome to the troubled Posco country

Work at the proposed Posco site in Jagatsinghpur district was stalled for the third consecutive day on Tuesday as locals staged a road blockade at a key junction demanding that their demands be......

Anti-Posco leader detained, land buy goes on

The Orissa government carried on with its land acquisition drive for the Posco steel plant after police on Friday detained a prominent anti-Posco leader and took over his illegal betel......

Posco land acquisition may be deferred by a week

The start of land acquisition for the South Korean steel major Posco's $12 billion project near Paradip, scheduled on May 18, may be deferred due to non-cooperation of the activists of United......

Tribal Meena might decide Posco's fate

An illiterate tribal woman from Orissa's Jagatsinghpur district is all set to play a vital role in deciding the fate of the Rs 51,000 crore (Rs 510 billion) Posco steel project, billed as the......