The BJP on Tuesday accused the ruling BJD in Orissa of serving “poison” to nearly 1.17 lakh schoolchildren in the form of supplying “adulterated” and “substandard” dal under the Mid-Day Meal (MDM) and Supplementary Nutrition Programme (SNP). The party announced that it would soon lodge a first information report (FIR) with

Buckling under pressure from Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party and Congress on the multi-crore dal supply scam under the mid-day meal scheme and Supplementary Nutritional Programme (SNP), Orissa women

Orissa’s women and child development minister Pramila Mallick on Saturday resigned in the wake of allegation of a Rs 700-crore scam in purchase of dal for mid-day meal scheme and Supplementary Nutrition Programme (SNP).

The BJP on Tuesday slammed the UPA government at the Centre for according conditional clearance to Posco project in Orissa and demanded that a CBI probe should be ordered into the matter.

Vedanta Aluminium Limited (VAL), which is putting up a 6-million-tonne per annum mega aluminium refinery at Orissa Lanjigarh district, is working towards creating its own technical human resource base

Over eight lakh migratory birds, most of them from far-off foreign lands like Siberia, Ireland and Ukraine, have arrived at Orissa’s Chilika lake for their annual winter sojourn to Asia’s largest brackish water lagoon.

BJP on Tuesday asked the Centre to immediately declare names of the Indians who had stashed black money in Swiss Banks.

"UPA Government should, without any hesitation, make public names of all those who have stashed black money in Swiss Bank accounts," BJP President, Nitin Gadkari told reporters here.

BJP President Nitin Gadkari on Tuesday said that expelled leader Uma Bharti can return to the party whenever she wants but is unlikely to so for "some time" due to "health reasons".

Three officials of the state agriculture department sustained injuries, one of them critically, after Maoists triggered a landmine blast in Orissa's Koraput district Tuesday, the police said.

At least nine Maoists, including four women, were on Sunday gunned down in an encounter with the Orissa police in a hilly, forested area near Kashipur in Rayagada district, nearly 500 km from here.