Author: Odisha News Tune

Bhubaneswar, Nov 5: The Mahanadi Coalfields Limited (MCL), a flagship subsidiary of Coal India Limited, has increased the amount of cash compensation in lieu of employment from Rs 10 lakh to Rs 16 lakh to the land oustees, as against Odisha Government’s Rehabilitation and Resettlement (R&R) policy of providing maximum cash compensation of Rs 8.5 […]

Bhubaneswar, Nov 5: Union MSME Minister Giriraj Singh on Saturday visited Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS) and KIIT University. He visited various campuses of KIIT and units of KISS. On the occasion Singh addressed 25,000 students of KISS. “I have not done one percent of work, what has done by Dr Achyuta Samanta, Founder […]

Jagatsinghpur, Nov 4: The Jagatsinghpur police issued a Look out Circular (LOC) against former against industrialist Mahimananda Mishra aka Mahima Mishra, for his alleged complicity in the murder of the manager of Seaways Shipping, Mahendra Swain on October 26. This means that Orissa Stevedores Ltd (OSL) managing director Mishra faces the possibility of an arrest […]

Bhubaneswar, Nov 4: Animal welfare activist and Union Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi, Gau Foundation’s Jagpreet Luthra and members the Dhyan Foundation and other NGOs on Friday staged a demonstration near Odisha Bhavan in new Delhi and sought Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik’s intervention in checking cattle-smuggling through Odisha. They also sought sought  action […]

Bhubaneswar, Nov 4: Odisha  Government on Friday welcomed the GST Council’s decision for adopting zero tax rate on common food items and reducing tax rate from six to five per cent by the GST Council. Patnaik also hailed the decision to recommend compensation by the Central Government to the States on implementation of GST with […]

Bhubaneswar, Nov 4: Unidentified burglars broke open two ATMs in Bhadrak on Thursday night and decamped with over 30 lakh cash. The miscreants cut open the ATMs using gas cutters. Bhadrak police have formed special teams to trace and nab the culprits. The miscreants looted two ATMs of Axis and ICICI Bank situated at Randhia […]

Bhubaneswar, Nov 3:  Sunil Kumar Mishra on Thursday took oath as new State Chief Information Commissioner here. Governor SC Jamir administered the oath to Mishra in the presence of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, chief secretary AP Padhi and many other dignitaries at the Raj Bhavan. A former director general of income tax, Mishra succeeded former […]

Bhubaneswar, Nov 3: The SOA University on Thursday paid ex-gratia of Rs 5 lakh each to the next of kin of three persons who had lost their lives in the fire accident at the Institute of Medical Sciences and SUM Hospital here on October 17. The three deceased persons whose families were paid the ex-gratia […]

Bhubaneswar, Nov 3: A five-member Assessment Team from International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) consisting of wild life scientists, environment specialists and eco-spot experts would visit Bhitarkanika sanctuary on Friday to assess the eco-site from various aspects. The team would visit the sanctuary after it was nominated as one of the nine natural eco […]

Bhubaneswar, Nov 3: The Frozen Semen Bank (FSB) located at Khapuria, Cuttack has been ranked as ‘A’ Grade after evaluation by Central Monitoring Unit (CMU). Recently, evaluation report for the year 2015-16 has been published. All together, 56 semen stations exist in the country. As per the evaluation, 32 stations have got Grade A, 15 […]