Bhubaneswar: The BJP on Sunday termed the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) government a lollipop government. The state government is a lollipop government. It has failed to create job opportunities during its 19-year rule and youths are roaming unemployed. The state government is giving lollipops to the youths through Biju Yuva[Read More…]
Biju Janata Dal (BJD) president and Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik suspended the former MLA Naveen Nanda from the party on Monday, July 2, after receiving the reports of Nanda being indulged in malicious incidents in Kolkata. BJD secretary Bijay Nayak said in a statement that it was reported that[Read More…]
Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has proposed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi that a national policy on loan waivers be formulated in order to relieve the farmers from the agrarian distress. In order to relieve the farmers from the agrarian distress, we should have a National Policy on Loan[Read More…]
Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government on Sunday signed a MoU with Tata Trusts, Mumbai to set up a state-of-the-art Cancer Treatment and Research Hospital in Bhubaneswar. The MoU was signed in the presence of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik and Tata Trusts Chairman Ratan N. Tata. As part of the MoU, Tata[Read More…]
Bhubaneswar: A six-year-old rape survivor from Odisha’s Salipur died on Sunday after struggling for life for more than a week at the SCB Medical College and Hospital in Cuttack, an official said. The minor was on ventilator support ever since she was admitted to the hospital in a critical condition, The[Read More…]
Bhubaneswar: Former Mumbai Police Commissioner Arup Patnaik joined Odisha’s ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) here on Wednesday. He joined the party in presence of Chief Minister and BJD President Naveen Patnaik, who said he will be a “tremendous asset”. “I joined the party as the BJD worker. I was away from[Read More…]
Bhubaneswar: Passengers of the Ahmedabad-Puri express had a narrow escape when its coaches rolled down without any engine for a few kilometres due to non-application of skid brakes in Odisha’s Titlagarh. The railway staff managed to halt the detached portion of the train by putting stones on the track late on[Read More…]
Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Thursday said BJP President Amit Shah is exaggerating that his party would win more than 120 seats in the 2019 assembly elections. “I think that is very exaggerating,” Patnaik told reporters here. Odisha, which will face general and assembly elections in 2019, has[Read More…]
Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Thursday said the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is sinking fast in the country. “The BJP is sinking quite fast,” Patnaik told reporters here, citing the defeat of the BJP in the by-poll to two parliamentary seats in Uttar Pradesh. The Biju Janata Dal (BJD)[Read More…]
Bhubaneswar: Finally, the Odisha government on Friday filed an application for Geographical Indication (GI) tag to stake claim for “Odishara Rasagola”. The state government move comes three months after West Bengal was awarded GI tag for “Banglar Rasogolla”. Officials of the Odisha Small Industries Corporation Ltd (OSIC) filed the application with[Read More…]
Bhubaneswar: A mob of hundreds of men and women ransacked and set ablaze a police station in Odisha’s Sambalpur district on Friday to protest the custodial death of a theft accused. The irate mob damaged property at the Ainthapali police station vandalised several vehicles and attacked the personnel by pelting stones[Read More…]
Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Friday requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi to set up a tribunal, as directed by the Supreme Court, to resolve the Mahanadi water dispute with Chhattisgarh. He also requested Modi to direct the Union Water Resources Ministry to instruct the Chhattisgarh government to stop construction[Read More…]
The Odisha government on Tuesday signed four MoUs for better delivery of healthcare services in the state. The Health and Family Welfare Department inked the MoUs with Glocal Healthcare Systems Private Ltd, Kolkata; the Centre for Stem Cell Research, Christian Medical College, Velore; the Narayan Hrudayalaya and L.V. Prasad Eye[Read More…]
The Odisha government on Monday introduced a new scheme ‘Fish Pond Yojana’ to facilitate the creation of additional 2,200 hectares of fresh water aquaculture farming with 50 per cent financial assistance to farmers. “The state plan scheme has been introduced with a budget provision of Rs 96 crore,” said Chief[Read More…]
Ending a bitter fight with neighbouring Odisha, West Bengal on Tuesday won the Geographical Indication (GI) tag for the iconic ‘rosogolla’, signifying that the spongy, syrupy sweet originated in its territory. The announcement by the GI registry has drawn the final curtain over an intense two-and-a-half year battle between the[Read More…]
The Odisha government has notified 1,28,319 hectares of cropped areas in 24 districts as pest-affected and released Rs 137.52 crore agriculture input subsidy for the affected farmers, said an official on Friday. Twenty-four out of 30 districts have reported crop damage due to pest attack while the remaining 6 districts[Read More…]
The CBI on Thursday arrested retired Orissa High Court judge, Ishrat Masroor Quddusi, and four others in connection with a corruption case. The arrests were made late Wednesday night, following a detailed search operation at eight locations, including the residence of the retired Judge Quddusi’s residence in Greater Kailash in[Read More…]
India Meteorological Department (IMD) warned that Odisha is likely to witness thunderstorm and lightning in 14 of the 30 districts on Thursday, besides heavy rainfall in southern regions of the state in the next 48 hours. Thunderstorm with lightning likely to occur in the 14 districts, the IMD said in its[Read More…]
Yoga guru, Baba Ramdev, on Wednesday suggested that prime minister, Narendra Modi, and Odisha chief minister, Naveen Patnaik, should join hands and work together for the welfare of the people of the state. While attending a convention of Patanjali distributors in Bhubaneswar, the yoga guru pitched for an alliance between[Read More…]
The government of Odisha has decided to provide lands to those dwelling in the slums in municipalities and Notified Area Councils (NACs) of the state. A decision in this regard was taken at the state Cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, on Tuesday. Slum dwellers living in municipal[Read More…]
A mob set a truck on fire in Odisha’s Ganjam district on Sunday, after suspecting that it was carrying beef. The accused are believed to be activists of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad and Bajrang Dal, reported the Hindustan Times. The truck was going from West Bengal to Maharashtra when the[Read More…]
In Odisha, a fuel station dispensed water instead of petrol which sparked tension near Secretariat on Saturday. Some customers said after filling up at the pump their vehicles developed technical snag when they showed it at nearby garages it was water they found oozing from inside the fuel tank and[Read More…]
In a shocking move, a local kangaroo court has sentenced Dushmanta Sahu, a villager of Ragdiapada of Odisha’s Angul district, to move around 13 villages beating gongs due to his wife Mallika Sahu’s ‘wrong voting choice’. In the recent poll for Naib Sarpanch post under Badakera gram panchayat, Mallika voted[Read More…]
With only three days left for the famous Rath Yatra of Lord Jagannatha, the preparations for the grand event in Puri are in full swing. The event, which is to take place on June 25th, will be witnessed by lakhs of devotees from all over the world. The chariots for[Read More…]
In a jolt to the Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC), Congress spokesperson Sulochana Das resigned from the party. Reportedly, she is likely to join the Biju Janata Dal (BJD). Das informed about her resignation through Facebook. “With deep anguish, I have decided to resign from the Congress party. During the[Read More…]
