Author: Odisha News Tune

Bhubaneswar, Oct 18: The Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan University, which runs the Institute of Medical Sciences and Sum Hospital, on Tuesday announced an ex-gratia of Rs 5 lakh each to the victims’ families. “The hospital authorities and the management have decided to extend an ex-gratia of Rs 5 lakh to the family of each deceased,” said […]

Bhubaneswar, Oct 18: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Tuesday visited patients at AMRI and AIIMS Hospitals who were admitted there after being evacuated from SUM Hospital after a major fire broke out there on Monday evening and enquired about their wellbeing. So far 20 patients have been died due to the fire. “Deeply grieved by […]

Bhubaneswar, Oct 17: Uber, the smartphone app that has transformed the way people move around in cities, on Monday launched inter-city services between Bhubaneswar and Cuttack. On opening the app, riders who are going to travel between the two cities, riders can slide to the new view ‘BBSR to Cuttack’ or ‘Cuttack to BBSR’ accordingly. […]

Bhubaneswar, Oct 17: Oral cancer being the thrust area at the SOA University-run Institute of Dental Sciences, its Dean Prof. Neeta Mohanty was invited as a speaker at the World Congress on Advances in Oncology and International Symposium on Molecular Medicine at Athens recently. Prof Mohanty, who was the only speaker from India in the […]

Malkangiri, Oct 14: Even as the death toll due to Japanese Encephalitis mounted to 52 with two fresh deaths reported at the Malkangiri District Headquarters Hospital (DHH) on Friday, a police complaint was filed against Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik and several other Ministers for their alleged negligence in tackling the disease in Malkangiri. One Ure […]

Bhubaneswar, Oct 14: For the first time, a National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) Chief Executive Officers’ (CEO) Conclave is going to be organiaed in Bhubaneswar from November 26 to 29. This was discussed at a high-level meeting at the State Secretariat on Friday in the presence of Minister of Electronics & IT […]

Rs 5,000 aid per annum to fishermen during fishing ban Bhubaneswar, Oct 14: Odisha has aimed to increase its sea food exports to Rs 20,000 crore from the State per annum in the next five years, said Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik while speaking at a workshop on ‘Seafood Export: Prospects and Challenges’ here on Friday. […]

Dhenkanal, Oct 13: With only four BJP councillors out of the total of 23, the saffron party on Thursday claimed the Dhenkanal Municipality Chairman post after party candidate Sudhanshu Dalei was elected through lottery after the voting ended in a tie. On August 1, Indramani Behera of BJD who was the Chairman of the civic […]

Bhubaneswar, Oct 13: A State Congress delegation led by Leader of Opposition in the Assembly Narasingha Mishra on Thursday met President Pranab Mukherjee and sought his intervention in the Mahanadi water dispute issue and pleaded to safeguard the interest of the people of Odisha. The opposition party MLAs called on the President at a time […]

Bhubaneswar, Oct 13: National Aluminium Company Limited (Nalco), the Navratna PSU under the Union Mines Ministry has put up an impressive performance in the first half of 2016-17 fiscal. According to a Nalco press release, in production front, while the bauxite mining was up 23.6% at 35.08 lakh tonnes, as compared to the corresponding six […]