Balasore (Orissa), May 29 : As plastic toys continue to flood the market, a group of 60 women in Orissa’s Balasore District are working hard to preserve the traditional art of making lac toys.

New born children in government hospital at Sambalpur, Orissa will now find Yashoda to take care of them.

While informing the chief district medical officer (CDMO) of Sambalpur, Dr. PK Nayak said, “This is totally a new concept all over the country started for the first time at Sambalpur.”

Puri, May 27 : Artisans of Puri in Orissa have mastered the art of turning waste into wealth as is evident from the papers that they transform into enchanting and eye catching artefacts.

As part of its growth plan, RPG group is all set to invest around Rs 90 billion in the power, tyre and carbon black industries by the next two years (2010).
  
The company’s chairman Mr. Rama Prasad Goenka, who is at his rubber estate at the Harrisons Malayalam limited at nearby Mooply to inaugurate the accelerated replanting and factory modernisation programme here, stated that Rs 6,000 crore would be invested in the Calcutta Electric Supply Company by 2020 in the states including Orissa, West Bengal and Jharkand, whereas the company has set aside Rs 20 billion in the Ceat Tyres and Rs 10 billion in the Philips Carbon Black.

Bhubaneshwar, May 23 : A mine workers’ group ‘Birsa Sangram Samiti’ staged a demonstration today in Orissa’s Sundergarh District demanding the reopening of the closed dolomite and limestone mines that had left them jobless.

The mines set up in the year 1960 provided jobs to locals, but made them jobless after 1990.