Bhubaneswar, March 4 (IANS) Union Minister of State for Railway Manoj Sinha on Monday said not an inch of railway lines in Odisha has been given to any other division. Attending a programme at Railway Auditorium here, the Minister said the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) government has no reason to[Read More…]
Baijayant Jay Panda, who left Odisha’ ruling party Biju Janata Dal (BJD) in 2018, is likely to join the Bharatiya Janata Party by Monday evening. Baijayant had left the party after the party suspended him for anti-party activities. Panda had said that he was shocked and denied the charges against[Read More…]
Bhubaneswar: With weeks away from the Lok Sabha and Assembly elections, BJD has received a big boost. Celebrated Ollywood singer Humane Sagar joined the Odisha’s ruling party Biju Janata Dal (BJD) in the presence of party chief and the state Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik. Titlagarh born Indian playback singer, the[Read More…]
Bhubaneswar: A group of miscreants allegedly attacked cops inside the Saheed Nagar Police Station, resulting in four cops sustaining critical injuries. As many as 8-10 miscreants first attacked three people, detained at the police station in an accident case. Cops then tried to stop the attacked, who then thrashed four[Read More…]
Bhubaneswar: An Assistant Professor of a renowned private university, Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT), had to lose her job for a statement during a live TV debate on the Pulwama Attack in which she said that India should not go to war with Pakistan. Madhumita Ray, a teacher in[Read More…]
Bhubaneswar: The Odisha unit of the Congress on Monday demanded the resignation of School and Mass Education Minister Badri Narayan Patra for the repeated incidents of question paper leaks during the annual High School Certificate (HSC) examination in the state. Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) President Niranjan Patnaik said that repeated[Read More…]
Puri: As many as 40 students of the Padiara School in Astaranga block, Adabansa village in the district had to resort to a life-threatening ferry ride to appear in their High School Examinations that began on Friday. The students were seen crossing the river on the boat without any life[Read More…]
Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government on Thursday said it will implement the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) scheme and cooperate with the Central government to extend benefits to the farmers. After reviewing the state’s Krushak Assistance for Livelihood and Income Augmentation (KALIA) scheme here, Chief Secretary Aditya Prasad Padhi said[Read More…]
Bhubaneswar: Union Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Tuesday laid the foundation stone of HPCL’s LPG bottling plant in Odisha’s Rayagada. The LPG plant of Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL) will be spread over 21 acres and will have the capacity of filling 42 lakh cylinders per year. The plant is[Read More…]
Carcass of Irrawaddy dolphin whose IUCN status is “endangered” has been found near Satapada Forest Range, Chilika on Thursday. Earlier, Humpback dolphins were found near Ratnagiri and Sindhudurg districts of Maharashtra was spotted near Bandra- Worli sea link. Spotting of these rare species has increased from last year as they[Read More…]
Kolkata: On Saturday, in a heartbreaking incident, a 23-year-old law student from National Law University, Odisha lost his life following a cardiac arrest while he was competing in the inter-university football tournament. The deceased, Rittick Das, was competing in the inter-university football tournament at the Sports Authority of India (SAI)[Read More…]
Bhubaneswar: The ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) on Friday protested against the Centre for failing to generate employment for the youth of Odisha. The move of the ruling party came a day after the state youth wing of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) held a protest rally by marching towards state[Read More…]
While addressing a public meeting on Wednesday, Congress chief Rahul Gandhi launched the “Guarantee Card” for every youth, farmer and woman listing promises which the Congress government will fulfill once they are risen to power. He distributed the symbolic guarantee cards. According to a series of tweets shared by President[Read More…]
Bhubaneswar, Member of Parliament from Odisha’s Aska Lok Sabha constituency Ladu Kishore Swain has passed away here, said family sources on Wednesday. He was 71. Swain died late on Tuesday while undergoing treatment at a private hospital. The senior Biju Janata Dal (BJD) leader was suffering from kidney-related ailments. He[Read More…]
Bhubaneswar, With the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief Amit Shah’s visit to Odisha due on February 15 — his third this year — the saffron party appears determined to hit the ground running in the state, where the Lok Sabha and the Assembly elections could be conducted simultaneously in April-May.[Read More…]
Thousands of landless farmers and their family members have been carrying a protest demanding permanent jobs.
Incident took place at Beleswarapatna when Bikram was taking pictures of an accident scene.
OTET exam 2019, held on January 16, has been cancelled following allegations of question paper leak. The Board of Secondary Education Odisha has decided to conduct OTET 2019 online. The board’s decision comes two weeks after OTET question paper was allegedly leaked on social media. “The examinations which were cancelled[Read More…]
Devarapalli Prakash Rao, who runs a tea stall in the city’s Buxi Bazaar area has been conferred with nation’s top honour Padma Shri for his contribution in the field of social work. Selling tea for the past 50 years, what more that he gives away is education to 80 children from the[Read More…]
Gajapati: After 29 girls of a government residential school left the hostel on Saturday night a 20-hour search operation has resulted in their rescue. The girls belonging to the Antaraba residential school, Mohini area, Gajapati district were rescued from a secluded house near Tanglipadar village on Sunday. “We found the[Read More…]
“Due to the involvement of your Chief Minister and other ministers in the chit fund scam, Odisha’s remote control is in the hands of a corrupt Chowkidaar. Naveen Patnaik sits and stands when Chaukidar presses the button. He has no option but to praise the disastrous policies of the Chowkidaar,”[Read More…]
“KALIA scheme will prove to be a milestone in Odisha’s economy. The scheme will help farmers improve their agricultural activities as well as their livelihood. No one can stop the Kalia Jatra in Odisha,” Patnaik said at a meeting attended by farmers in Puri. The Chief Minister rolled out the[Read More…]
On Friday, Congress Chief Rahul Gandhi reached Bhubaneswar to speak at The Odisha Dialogue. While Gandhi was at the Airport, a photographer capturing his arrival tripped and fell. Following this, the Congress President rushed to him and picked him up. The video of the turn of events is now viral on[Read More…]
Bhubaneswar, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Monday requested the Centre to take an early decision on the realignment of a railway line from Balasore district to West Bengal’s Digha so that it touches various pilgrimage and tourist spots in the state. In a letter to Union Railway Minister Piyush[Read More…]
Bhubaneswar, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Friday once again wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi demanding Special Category Status (SCS) for the coastal state. In a letter to Modi, Patnaik said with Odisha facing historical neglect by successive Central governments, as well as frequent natural calamities, the government has[Read More…]
