Author: Odisha News Tune

Minister Bijayashree Routray Bhubaneswar, Sep 15:  Odisha Revenue and Disaster Management Minister Bijayashree Routray on Monday landed in a fresh controversy with allegedly assaulting some mediapersons here at his Secretariat chamber. Source said the Minister physically assaulted certain electronic media people who were questioning him about the Ghangapatana land scam. Sources added that the Minister […]

 Minister Ashok Chandra Panda speaking at the workshop Bhubaneswar, Sep 14: A workshop on geo-heritage and geo-tourism potential of Odisha was organised by Society of Geoscientists and Allied Technologists (SGAT) in association with Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH). Inaugurating the workshop Tourism and Culture Minister Ashok Chandra Panda laid emphasis on […]

Madhu Mohanty More BJD leaders under CBI scanner  Bhubaneswar, Sep 14: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), investing the mega chit-fund scam on Sunday arrested Odia TV Channel ‘Kamyab TV’ owner Manoj Das and Odia newspaper ‘Odisha Bhaskar’ owner Madhu Mohanty on charges of having links with chit firm Artha Tatwa Group’s (AT) financial irregularities. […]

Bhubaneswar, Sep 14: A day after 28 senior women hockey players, all of them resident of Sundargarh district, fleeing from Bhubaneswar Sports Hostel alleging poor service and reached their home district on Saturday night, Raghunathpali MLA Subrat Tarai and Rourkela Additional District Magistrate (ADM) K Sudarshan Chakra said they will hold discussion with the Youth […]

Purnima Hembram Bhubaneswar, Sep 14: International athlete Purnima Hembram has bagged the prestigious 22nd Ekalabya Award for the award year 2014. She has a brilliant international and national track record for the past two years and has bagged gold and silver medals.   She will get a cash award of Rs 2 lakh along with […]

Bhubaneswar, Sep 12: Union Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Friday said that Odisha will receive about Rs 1 lakh crore worth of investment in coming five years in petrochemicals, oil and gas pipelines, LNG and LPG terminals, strategic oil reserve, etc. The Ministry has already invested Rs Rs 34,000 crore for the […]

Bhubaneswar, Sep12: You will now have to pay a fine of up to Rs 5000 if caught dumping garbage on roads except in the dustbins and prescribed locations provided or marked by the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) in the capital city of Bhubaneswar, sources said. After the failure of several awareness campaigns, requests and many […]

Bhubaneswar, Sept. 11: Odisha health and family welfare, information and public relations minister Mr Atanu Sabyasachi Nayak released photo-feature book ‘Capturing Nature’s Fury’ by eminent journalist Akshaya Rout here on Thursday. Published by Indus Valley Times, the book is an attempt by the author to capture the nature’s devastation through camera lens. Releasing the book, […]

Bhubaneswar, Sep 11: The Joint enforcement squad consisting of officials of BDA, BMC and General Administration department, backed by police personnel, continued its anti-encroachment drive for the second consecutive day on Thursday to clear encroachments busy CRP square and Priyadarshini Market. The team removed nearly 40 street vendors , demolished extended portion of 25 business […]

Bhubaneswar, Sep 10: The Bhubaneswar Development authority (BDA), Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) and General Administration department on Wednesday cleared nearly 1.5km road by removing 35 unauthorized boundary walls, 25 extended structures, three commercial establishments, 13 cabins in GGP colony canal road in a joint eviction drive. However, the eviction of about other unauthorized structures could […]