The grievance cell of Orissa chief minister Naveen Patnaik has been defunct since 2008, leaving thousands of people in the state to suffer in silence, an anti-graft group said on Friday.

Despite the anti-Posco movement gaining momentum with a number of social activists and Left leaders from various parts of the country regularly visiting the project site, the Orissa government on Tuesday began the preliminary construction work like cleaning and levelling of the land at Polang-Noliasahi under Gadakujanga gram

High drama took place in at Dhinkia, the proposed site for the `52,000-crore Posco steel project, in Orissa’s Jagatsinghpur district on Monday with eminent social activists Medha Patkar visiting the area and a leading pro-Posco leader Anadi Rout resigning from his post.

The Orissa government on Tuesday halted land acquisition for Posco's $12 billion project in Jagatsinghpur due to opposition from locals, an official said.

"We have halted it indefinitely following t

Infrastructure development activities, especially road construction and repair work, have come to a grinding halt in Koraput, one of the worst Maoist-infested districts in the state, seriously affecti

The Communist Party of India is now precariously positioned vis-à-vis the ruling Biju Janata Dal, its ally, in Orissa.
While the party does not want any displacement of local people in Dhinka, a part of the Posco project site near port town Paradip in Orissa Jagatsinghpur district, the BJD headed by CM Naveen Patnaik is hell-bent on pushing

Mining and mineral experts have called for scientific and planned exploitation of all grades of ores causing minimum harm to forest, damage to existing water resources, minimum displacement of local inhabitants and least disturbance of the environment.

The Orissa Pradesh Congress Committee on Tuesday suspended Lanjigarh MLA Shivaji Majhi from the primary membership of the party for allegedly taking bribe during last year’s Rajya Sabha elections.

Two persons were arrested today for allegedly raping a teenage college girl in a moving vehicle in the state capital.

"Police have arrested two men on charge of gang rape of a college girl in t

The Orissa government on Saturday declared the road blockade at Dhinkia, a major part of the Posco steel project site, by the local people as illegal — thus signalling a possible swoop on the proteste