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Bhubaneswar: Odisha’s economy set to grow at 8.35 per cent in 2018-19, much ahead of the national average of 7.2 per cent. It has registered 8% growth rate for last six years, compared to the national average of 7.1 per cent. This was revealed by Finance Minister Sashi Bhusan Behera in the Assembly during his […]
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Bhubaneswar: Ahead of the crucial general and Assembly elections due in May, newly-appointed Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi is scheduled to hit the campaign trail with brother and party president Rahul Gandhi in Odisha in the last week of February. On January 23, Priyanka took charge as the All India Congress Committee (AICC) general secretary […]
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Cuttack: Justice Pramath Patnaik on Friday took charge as the judge of the Orissa High Court. Chief Justice KS Jhaveri administered the oath of office to him at the court premises in the presence of judges and judicial and senior State and district administration officials. On January 10, the Supreme Court Collegium passed a resolution […]
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Bhubaneswar: For the fourth consecutive day, the Odisha Assembly could not transact the Question Hour on Friday. While BJD MLAs created ruckus over Central negligence and inefficiency to provide jobs to youths Opposition raised issues of farmer and sexual assault of minor girls in the State and delay in returning money to the duped chit […]
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Bhubaneswar: Ahead of the simultaneous Lok Sabha and Assembly elections, Finance Minister Sashi Bhusan Behera on Thursday presented Vote-on-Account or interim budget of Rs 56,821 crore, out of the annual budget estimate of Rs 1.326 lakh crore for the first four months of 2019-20 in the State Assembly amid the walkout of opposition Congress and […]
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Bhawanipatna: Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik at a public rally in Bhawanipatna in Kalahandi district saying “Chowkidaar Chor Hai’ in an apparent reference to Modi and Patnaik is being remote controlled by the PM. Launching a direct attack on both the leaders Rahul said, […]
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Bhubaneswar: Maintaining that for faster growth in Odisha, the Narendra Modi Government has invested 85,000 crore in roads, Union Road Transport and Highways and Shipping Minister Nitin Gadkari on Wednesday claimed that the length of National Highways in Odisha has doubled in the last four years, increasing from 4,632 km in 2014 to 9,426 km […]
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Bhubaneswar: Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari will visit Odisha on Wednesday to launch projects worth Rs 5,982 crore. During the proposed visit he will lay foundation stone for three National Highways projects of total length 132 km worth Rs 2,345 crore and inaugurate projects worth Rs 431 crore in Kamakhyanagar in Dhenkanal […]
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Bhubaneswar: The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) has arrested Shreya Infrastructure Services Ltd director Gatikrushna Dash for allegedly or cheating a large number of investors of Rs 5 crore. The company was functioning from Saheed Nagar area. It was accused of defrauding nearly 100 people of Rs 5 crore on pretext of providing flats to them […]
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Bhubaneswar: Responding to the developments pertaining to the CBI probing the chit fund scam in West Bengal, the BJD on Monday said that the sudden action of the central investigating agency in Odisha just before panchayat elections in 2017 and now before general elections smacks of “unprofessional conduct and coloured with political motives”. The Naveen […]
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