A delegation of Vedanta Group led by Kumar met Mohanty and urged him to accelerate process of providing alternative source of bauxite after the company was refused permission to start mining atop Niyamgiri hills in Kalahandi district.
A round-up of Day 1 in the Ranji Trophy quarter-final matches.
The Orissa high court on Wednesday granted bail to top Maoist leader Ganti Prasadam, whose release is among the conditions set by the Naxals for the safe return of abducted Malkangiri District Collector R V Krishna. The court granted him bail on a bond of Rs 20,000 with two sureties.
The BCCI senior selection committee on Saturday announced the India A squad for the five one-dayers against the Lions.
The state government has already decided to challenge Orissa High Court's July 14 judgement that set aside recommendation of Posco-India's name for prospecting license (PL) over Khandadhar iron ore reserve.
While poachers were active in Orissa's lone National Park at Similipal, the state's Wildlife Crime Cell to tackle growing and rampant wildlife crime remained defunct. There is no dedicated intelligence staff on wildlife crime.
National UPSC topper from Chennai, Divyadarshini, speaks about her preparation tips, her success mantras, her failure to clear the same exam in her first attempt, how she coped with it and things that she would like to change in India as an Indian and an IAS officer.
A summary of Thursday's matches in the Vijay Hazare Trophy limited-overs' tournament.
Maintain a tab on your expenses, keeping them low while starting out.
Cyclone Vayu was to hit the Gujarat coast on Thursday, but it changed course on the intervening night of Wednesday and Thursday.
by relentlessly campaigning to highlight the indifference of the Centre to safeguard the interests of Odisha in these inter-state disputes, the BJD is seeking to pin down the BJP.
At present, the repo rate acts as the policy rate when liquidity is in deficit mode while reverse repo becomes the operating rate when there liquidity is surplus.
The Naxals attempted to blow up a vehicle transporting a police team in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district, officials said. The extremists triggered a landmine blast when the van was passing by near Parleda village, Bijapur Superintendent of Police Avinash Mohanty told PTI by phone.
Patnaik, won his his home turf Hinjili by over 60,000 votes, while he was leading from Bijepur till early on Friday morning.
Patnaik, 89, passed away at Sri Venkateswara Institute of Medical Sciences in the temple city
Veteran Sunil Joshi spun a web around Orissa batsmen, taking five for 35 to restrict the visitors to 191 on the first day of their Ranji Trophy Super League match at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium, in Bangalore on Wednesday.
A woman was killed and three others were on Tuesday injured in a stampede during pulling of Ratha Yatra chariots from the Sri Jagannath temple in Puri, Orissa, in which hundreds of thousand people took part.
Uncertainty looms large over holding of the fifth ODI between India and Australia on Saturday in Cuttack as heavy rains have caused water logging in the outfield of the Barabati Stadium.
The Orissa government on Tuesday rejected the demand to scrap Posco's steel project, saying the Rs 51,000-crore (Rs 510 billion) project could contribute 11.5 per cent to the state's gross domestic products in terms of value addition.
The verdict could force steelmakers to cut output or import expensive iron ore.
A round-up of results from the Ranji Trophy matches played on Sunday.
Medium pace duo of K V Sasikanth and Cheepurapalli Stephen returned with five wickets each as Andhra Pradesh notched up a comprehensive nine-wicket win over Delhi in their Group A Ranji Trophy match on Friday. A round-up of the Ranji Trophy matches on Friday.
Equity MF schemes recorded worst inflows in three and a half years at Rs 1,311 crore for November. Investors across the board have taken money off the table as markets have scaled new highs. Industry experts said SIPs had stayed intact, which is a healthy sign for the MF industry.
North Zone openers Jiwanjot Singh and Unmukt Chand made a cautious start as they reached 33 for no loss against East Zone with only 17 overs of play possible on a rain-curtailed first day of the Duleep Trophy semi-final in Kochi.
The Orissa government on Thursday pulled up ArcelorMittal, for "not making any investment" so far in its proposed 12mtpa greenfield steel plant at Keonjhar, questioned its "actual intentions".
The Reserve Bank working group, constituted to revisit benchmark prime lending rate (BPLR), is likely to recommend two types of PLRs and may put a ceiling on banks' sub-PLR lending, a source said.
The committee is considering multiple BPLRs for corporates, SMEs and retail borrowers and is likely to meet by mid-September to finalise the recommendations on the BPLR structure. BPLR is the interest rate that commercial banks charge their most credit-worthy customers.
Responding to the debate on the bill, Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said the ban commercial surrogacy was "the need of the hour".
A round-up of Ranji matches played on Saturday.
A round-up of Day 3 of the Ranji Trophy matches played on Saturday.
Forming an international team with United States experts, an IIT Kharagpur researcher is developing a new in-car yawn-detection system that will keep an eye on a driver while behind the wheel.The researchers have revealed that it is based around an in-car camera hooked up to image-processing software that captures a sequence of images of the driver's face.
Naxals blew up a railway station, stormed another and are feared to have abducted two railway officials in Orissa's Sundergarh district early on Saturday, just hours before the 24-hour bandh by the ultra left began in five Naxal-infested states. Over 60 Naxals struck Bhalulata railway station, located on the Howrah-Mumbai route, and triggered explosions using landmines and powerful explosives, Inspector in-charge of Bisra police station C S Mohanty said.
Wasim Jaffer scored a masterful 103 not out to help holders Mumbai reach 184 for three on the third day of the Ranji Trophy Super League match against Orissa at the Brabourne Stadium on Thursday. The Mumbai captain's knock included 13 boundaries. He was involved in a 175-run third wicket partnership with Prashant Naik (67) after Orissa's seamers had sent both the Mumbai openers back to the pavilion.
Five months after a Catholic nun was allegedly gangraped in Kandhamal, the Orissa police filed a chargesheet on Thursday in the case on the eve of the expiry of stipulated time frame of 120 days.
The Central Administrative Tribunal set aside the appointment of R R Girish Kumar as the director general of police of Andhra Pradesh on Thursday.
Harbhajan Singh will lead Punjab in the Ranji Trophy match against Odisha at the Punjab Cricket Association stadium in Mohali, from October 27 to 30.
The market for vinyl collapsed with the advent of CDs in 1982. But LPs, as they were fondly called, have made a comeback in the past ten years, with certain editions costing quite a packet
The Briton made the comments in an interview to the BBC in reference to Formula 1 embracing new countries to hold races.
Uddalok Bhattacharya looks back at his friendship with 'Jhima', the Nobel Laureate.
The stolen pilot vehicle of Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman K Rahman Khan was found abandoned in Rangpura area of New Delhi, police sources said on Tuesday.
