Author: Odisha News Tune

Bhubaneswar, October 8: The East coast Railway (ECoR) have started a drive to check without ticket/irregular ticket travel by trains in its jurisdiction. Massive ticket checking drives involving Commercial Ticket Checking Staff as well as Railway Protection Force (RPF) are being conducted on all sections of three Railway Divisions on a regular basis. In September […]

Bhubaneswar, Oct 8: International athlete Srabani Nanda has bagged the prestigious 24th Ekalabya Award for the year 2016. The Ekalabya Award Committee comprising jury members drawn from different walks of life were unanimous in selecting Nanda for the award at a meeting held here on Saturday. Srabani Nanda will get a cash award of Rs […]

Bhubaneswar, Oct 7: The current financial year’s total State Plan budget utilisation by September-end has crossed Rs 19,000 crore, thereby marking a growth of 26 per cent more than that of the corresponding period of FY 2015-16. This was revealed at an all-Secretaries’ meeting held under the chairmanship of Chief Secretary Aditya Prasad Padhi at […]

Bhubaneswar, Oct 7: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has directed the Odisha Government to make adequate arrangement for cleaning the class room of the schools and asked not to deploy students for cleaning the class room. The rights panel also issued show-cause notice to the Chief Secretary seeking reply within six weeks, as to […]

Bhubaneswar, Oct 6: Concerned over the rising death toll due to the deadly Japanese Encephalitis (JE) in Malkangiri district, senior BJP leader and Union Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Thursday met Union Health Minister JP Nadda in New Delhi and sought his immediate intervention to tackle the situation. “The disease has assumed […]

Bhubaneswar, Oct 6: Over 600 software IT professions across the country would attend the TechBhubaneswar, the first ever software conference in eastern India on October 16. The main objective is to create a platform for tech community to share knowledge and develop connections at Bhubaneswar TechBhubaneswar, inspired by Mindfire will provide platform for knowledge sharing […]

Bhubaneswar, Oct 1: The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of the Crime Branch has arrested one Somanath Adhikari in connection with two bank fraud cases worth Rs 7 crore. He was arrested from Delhi Airport on Thursday by a special EOW team. He was produced in a local court here on Saturday. In both the cases […]

Bhubaneswar, Oct 1: Senior Congress leader and Leader of Opposition in the State Assembly Narasingha Mishra on Saturday urged Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik and Director General of Police (DGP) KB Singh to protect the people of Belbahali locality, where a bridge is proposed to constructed over river Kusei, and to ensure their freedom of movement […]

Bhubaneswar, Oct 1: Essar Power Ltd (EPoL) announced that it has completed Phase I (2×30 MW) of the 120 MW Paradip Power Plant following the synchronisation of the 30 MW second unit with Odisha grid on September 28. With this milestone, Essar Power’s installed capacity now stands at 4,705 MW. The 120 MW imported coal […]