Author: Odisha News Tune

— Says 5 months enough to build alternative Salepur: Taking inspiration from the spectacular performance of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in the Delhi Assembly elections, expelled Congress leader Soumya Ranjan Patnaik on Sunday said Ama Odisha, the political outfit recently launched by him, can do an encore in Odisha. “The performance of the AAP, […]

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha unit of Aam Aadmi Party on Sunday celebrated its spectacular debut in Delhi by winning 28 seats of 70 Assembly seats.    “The party’s success in Delhi elections will send a strong message to rest of the country. It proves people now want complete change in system followed by so called major […]

Bhubaneswar: Accusing the ruling BJD of failing to create jobs, the SP State unit on Saturday staged a demonstration in front of the office of the Employment Mission Director here demanding employment and provision of unemployment allowance to unemployed youth. “The State Government during 2005-06 introduced an employment mission with an aim to provide jobs […]

Bhubaneswar: The State Government on Saturday issued notification appointing Housing and Urban Development Department (H&UD) special secretary Sisir Kumar Rath as administrator of Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC). The five year term of the current corporation will end on December 9 and the administrator will take charge of the corporation on December 10. On Friday, the […]

Bhubaneswar: The State Election Commission (SEC) on Friday announced the schedule for the voting for the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC).   Announcing the dates for the poll, State Election Commission (SEC) Ajit Tripathy said the polls will be held on January 8, 2014 and counting will take place the next day, January 9. Elections will […]

Bhubaneswar: The Laxmisagar police and the quick action team of the Commissionerate Police during a joint raid late on Thursday night seized 79 bottles of foreign liquors from Ashoka and Kaveri Hotel and arrested three persons in this case. While 60 bottles of wine including Mac Dowell, Royal Stag and Derby were seized from the […]

Bhubaneswar: The Khandagiri police on Thursday busted a motor cycle looter gang here at Raghunathnagar slum and arrested two persons and seized 14 motor cycles from their possessions. Acting on a tip-off, the police raided Raghunathnagar slum and nabbed Khali Behera and Ashok Das, both habitual offenders and booked them under section 379/411 of IPC […]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha’s initiatives in automation of key processes for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) and making them transparent has become examples for the entire country with the Union Government pressing for their replication in other States. According to Additional Development Commissioner, Ministry of MSME this online software is very much user-friendly integrating all stakeholders […]

Rourkela: The Department of Humanities and Social Sciences of National Institute of Technology (NIT), Rourkela will host three day long 23rd annual convention of National Academy of Psychology (NAOP) with the theme ‘Psychology in the Service of Humanity: Theory, Technology and Applications”, India from December 13. NIT Director Prof Sunil Kumar Sarangi will be chief […]

Bhubaneswar: The Confederation of Real Estate Developers’ Association of India (CREDAI), an apex body real estate developers, is all set to hold a two-day national conclave with the theme ‘Housing the game changer – Leading to double-digit GDP growth’ in New Delhi from December 13, 2013. The conference will culminate on December 14.  Briefing mediapersons […]