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Vedanta's Odisha plant to ramp up aluminium output

At Jharsuguda, Vedanta had installed two smelters at an investment of Rs 25,000 core

Question mark hangs over Vedanta's Odisha project

The company has said it could shut its Lanjigarh alumina refinery because of the non-availability of bauxite within the state

Odisha will offer to sell iron ore to Posco for steel project

State willing to reserve mine if SAIL, Posco enter a joint venture for Paradip project

Posco's fate hangs in the balance

The only thing that could still make the Korean steel maker pursue its project in Odisha is captive iron ore mines

Dillip Satapathy: Gamang - Congress' loss, BJP's gain

The Congress' fortune in Odisha has been on the slide ever since it lost power to the BJD in the 2000 elections. Party loyalist Giridhar Gamang's resignation has only added to its problems

Posco's Odisha journey: Travails of a big-ticket project

Ten years after signing an MoU with the state government, South Korean steel major finds its proposed project pushed to the edge

Instead of aluminium, we should make alumina and get it smelted abroad: Ansuman Das

Interview with Chairman and managing director, Nalco

Tata Steel Kalinganagar plant commissioning to be delayed

With about 20% project work still pending and work on some of the key components like blast furnace, sinter, steel melting shop and hot strip mill yet to be completed

Has Posco's Odisha plan finally hit the wall?

The new mining law, which provides for allotment of mines solely through auctions, may have sounded the death knell for its proposed steel plant

Renewal at Puri

It takes a festival for a city to reinvent itself

Odisha bats for immediate auction of mining leases

State says insisting on G1 level of exploration to establish proven mineral reserve without any gain in insight into economic value of the resource will delay auction process

Odisha nixes JVs with Rio Tinto, Sesa Sterlite, Hindalco

Odisha nixes JV project with Rio Tinto

The government has also decided not to alienate any mine in favour of the JV

Kandhamal: 2 conversions in 5 years, officially

Christians in India bearing the cross of insecurity

Rising incidents of violence and harassment have the Christian community anxious about its rights

Odisha factfile, 2000-14

Odisha: Poised for a surge

Odisha is ready to return to the high-growth path, having overcome constraints that had held it back

Anil Agarwal: Charity on his mind

Agarwal has pledged three-fourths of his wealth to philanthropy. Will he deliver?

Dilip Satapathy: Scam taint on BJD but Patnaik sitting pretty, for now

With a resurgent BJP out to corner the chief minister, politics in Odisha is going to be far from tranquil in the weeks to come

In spite of reverses, Anil Agarwal has big aluminium plans

The rise in global prices has made Vedanta Group embark on capacity expansion, though the uncertainty over captive bauxite mines continues