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Bhubaneswar: As the severe cyclonic storm ‘FANI’ is likely to cross Odisha coast at Balukhand in Puri on Friday afternoon with maximum sustained wind speed 175-185 kmph gusting to 205 kmph, the State Government has deployed 17 ODRAF units and 25 NDRF teams in 14 districts to expedite the relief and rescue operation. While two […]
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Bhubaneswar: As Odisha braces up for very severe cyclonic storm Fani, the Odisha Government on Tuesday sought two helicopters and additional NDRF teams for evacuation of affected people to safety and to carry out relief and rescue operation. The cyclonic storm is likely to cross Odisha coast ‘between Gopalpur and Chandbali to the south of […]
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Bhubaneswar: Biju Janata Dal (BJD) president and Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Tuesday claimed that BJD will do good in the elections and also win the Patkura Assembly election in Kendrapara district. “BJD will do good in the elections and also win the Patkura Assembly election. I urge the CEC to postpone the Patkura elections […]
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The Very Severe Cyclonic Storm “Fani” over Southeast and adjoining Southwest Bay of Bengal moved north-northwestwards with a speed of about 23 kmph in last six hours and lay centred about 830 km nearly south of Puri and 670 km south-southeast of Vishakhapatnam and about 680 km northeast of Trincomalee in Sri Lanka. It is […]
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Bhubaneswar: With the cyclonic storm Fani approaching towards Odisha coast, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has released Rs 340.875 crore to Odisha for undertaking preventive and relief measures. Besides Odisha, three other States – Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal – have also been given advance funds. The MHA has ordered advance release […]
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Bhadrak: At least four people died allegedly after drinking spurious liquor at in two villages in Tihidi area in Bhadrak district late on Monday night. Liquor sale was banned since Saturday evening in Bhadrak in view of elections on Monday. The deceased were identified as Sadhu Charan Nayak of Nimaisahi, Sarbeswar Das and Rama Chandra […]
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Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has broken his own tradition of not coming to Secretariat during election. Patnaik on Monday visited the State Secretariat and reviewed the preparedness for the Cyclonic storm Fani which is re-curving towards Odisha coast. Normally, Patnaik, who happens to be the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) president, had never visited the […]
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Cuttack: A 100-year-old woman set an example for others by casting her vote in the ongoing Lok Sabha and Assembly elections in the country on Monday in Cuttack district. Padmabati Nayak, a resident of Kusunupur under Kurujang gram panchayat in Mahanga block in Cuttack district, was among the thousands of voters who queued up to […]
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His contribution in the formation of Odisha as a State taking the people’s mother tongue, Odia, into consideration, cannot be described in words, and perhaps State Government knowingly named a park in Pokhariput area in Bhubaneswar after him to pay honour to the towering personality. The legend, who was born in 1848, had a lot […]
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Bhubaneswar: The Phase-IV polling for the Lok Sabha and Assembly Elections-2019 will be held on April 29 (Monday). In the fourth phase of the election, voting for a total of six Lok Sabha constituencies and 41 Assembly seats coming under these PCs will be conducted. Also read: 95.15 Lakh Voters To Decide Electoral Fortune Of 388 […]
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