A seven-member panel of the Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on Saturday examined the alleged coal block irregularities in Orissa.

Orissa Pradesh Congress president Niranjan Patnaik on Saturday dubbed the illegal mining activities in the state the “greatest loot” in the past hundred years and demanded a CBI probe into the matter. Mr Patnaik’s statement came close on the heels of the Orissa government slapped penalty notices on 27 mines operators asking them to pay a total of `58,000 crore for illegal mining.

A day before the Odisha Jana Morcha’s (OJM) public rally, high drama took place on Saturday here with the ruling BJD leaders and activists burning the effigy of OJM chairman Pyarimohan Mohapatra alleging that “the proposed gathering is act of revolt” against the chief minister Naveen Patnaik.

The infighting in the ruling BJD intensified on Friday, with party president Naveen Patnaik and rebel leader Pyarimohan Mohapatra accusing each other of making attempts to destablise the party.

The Orissa government’s inability to make a timely intervention has forced the London-listed Vedanta Aluminium Limited (VAL) to shut down, albeit temporarily, its refinery unit at Lanjigarh in Kalahandi district. The one-million-tonne refinery facility was shut down on Saturday due to non-availability of bauxite, the key raw material.

Odisha government’s inability to make a timely intervention has forced the London-listed Vedanta Aluminium Limited (VAL) to shut down, albeit temporarily, its refinery unit at Lanjigarh in Kalahandi d

The Orissa government which faces the allegation of large-scale irregularities in mining operations, has sparked off yet another controversy by bringing out an “ambiguous” resolution to regulate the s

Suryanarayan Das, the 30-year-old youth who on Friday tried to commit suicide by jumping into the lion safari at Nandankanan zoo here, on Saturday said he took the extreme step because of a family feu

The ruling Biju Janata Dal on Wednesday suspended the party’s general secretary and spokesperson Jajneswar Babu from the party on charges “acting against the interest of the party.”

Four members of the six-member team of the Justice M.B. Shah Commission arrived here on Wednesday to probe into the mega mining scam in the state. The team led by U.B.