Slew of facilities started at Bhubaneswar, Sakhigopal railway stations

Bhubaneswar, December 30, 2017: Several passenger amenity facilities were inaugurated at Bhubaneswar and Sakhigopal Railway stations on Saturday. Union Petroleum and Natural Gas, Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and Union Minister of State for Railways Rajen Gohain opened the new projects, including the second entrance to Bhubaneswar station, station building, new booking office […]

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Vice-President condemns Pakistan for insulting Kulbhushan Jadhav’s mother and wife

New Delhi, December 27, 2017: Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu on Wednesday described Pakistan’s handling of Kulbhushan Jadhav’s meeting with his family members as inhuman and said the act has hurt the sentiments of Indians. He said so while interacting with 17 member faculty and students from Harvard, Stanford and MIT of the USA. During […]

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Yogi Adityanath trashes superstition, gets pat from Modi

Noida, December 25, 2017: Prime Minister Narnedra Modi on Monday hailed Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath for ignoring superstition associated with Noida and visiting the city. The Chief Minister had shunned advice of many for not visiting Noida, as many of his predecessors had apparently lost their chair after visiting Noida. The Chief Minister […]

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Botanical Garden-Kalkaji Mandir metro line to cut travel time to 19 minutes

Bhubaneswar, December 24, 2017: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate a stretch of the new Magenta line of the Delhi Metro on Monday. The line connects Botanical Garden in Noida with Kalkaji Mandir in Delhi. The Botanical Garden-Kalkaji Mandir metro line will bring down the travel time between Noida and south Delhi to 19 minutes […]

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No mercy for Damodar Rout

Bhubaneswar, December 23, 2017: A day after sacking him from the Council of Ministers, Chief Minister and BJD president Naveen Patnaik on Saturday removed Damodar Rout from the post of party’s vice-president and party’s observer for Dhenkanal district. A BJD communiqué signed by party vice-president and Minister Usha Devi to this effect was issued to […]

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Odisha recognised as ‘Champion State’ for exports

Bhubaneswar, December 23, 2017: The central Government has recognised Odisha as “Champion State” for recording the highest growth in exports during 2016-17 financial year. This was announced during a review meeting of Ministry of Commerce and Industry on Export performance of States and formulation of strategy attended by State MSME Additional Chief Secretary (MSME) LN […]

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Naveen sacks Damodar Rout from Council of Ministers

Damodar Rout Bhubaneswar, December 22, 2017: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Friday expelled senior Minister Damodar Rout from the Council of Ministers for his derogatory remarks on Brahmins.  Four days after he stirred controversy for his beggar remark on Brahmin community, Patnaik dismissed Agriculture Minister Damodar Rout from his Council of Ministers. “I strongly disapprove […]

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2,275 Odisha Highways construction workers among 1.12 lakh to be trained

Bhubaneswar, December 22, 2017: As many as 2,275 Highways construction workers from Odisha among 1.12 lakh people from across the country will be provided training in World Bank funded projects in the trades of masonry, bar-bending and shuttering over a span of four months by June 2018, said Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways […]

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SHe-Box portal for women employees

Bhubaneswar, December 21, 2017: The Central Government has launched an online complaint management system titled Sexual Harassment electronic–Box (SHe-Box) for registering complaints related to sexual harassment at workplace of all women employees in the country, including Government and private employees. In order to ensure the effective implementation of the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace […]

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Space entrepreneur Susmita Mohanty to head ‘Mo School’ initiative

Bhubaneswar, December 20, 2017: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday appointed noted space entrepreneur and founder CEO of India’s first space StartUp Earth2Orbit Dr Susmita Mohanty as the chairperson of ‘Mo School’ initiative. On November 14, on the occasion of Children’s Day, Patnaik had announced an initial corpus of Rs 100 crore for this initiative […]

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