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Bhubaneswar: The first session of the 16th Odisha Assembly began on Tuesday with the customary address of Governor Ganeshi Lal who announced that women will now get Rs 10 lakh for their treatment instead of Rs 7 lakh under Biju Swasthya Kalyan Yojana and interest free education loans for students. Highlights of the speech […]
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Bhubaneswar: The Budget Session of 16th Odisha Assembly began on Tuesday with the customary address to the House by Governor Ganeshi Lal. Before the Governor address the House, he was accorded guard of honour on the Assembly premises. The session began at 11 am. The Session would continue till August 8 in two phases. The […]
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Bhubaneswar: Bhawanipatna MLA Pradipta Kumar Naik was appointed BJP Legislature Party leader. By virtue of the BJPLP leader, Naik will also be the Leader of Opposition (LoP) of the Odisha Legislative Assembly. With 23 MLAs, the BJP has emerged as the second largest party in the Assembly after 2019 elections. Naik will be appointed as […]
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New Delhi/Bhubaneswar: The Lok Sabha witnessed Union Minister Pratap Chandra Sarangi’s extraordinary multilingual oratory skills when he spoke for nearly 50-minutes while participating on the Motion of Thanks on the President’s address. The first-time MP from Balasore spoke in five languages – English, Hindi, Sanskrit, Odia and Bengali thereby drawing the attention of the entire […]
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Bolangir: In a major development, Bolangir police on Monday Patnagarh BJD MLA Saroj Meher in connection with an FIR lodged against him for forcing a Government Junior Engineer (JE) to do sit ups in public on June 5 after blaming him for the low quality of an under-construction road at Gambhari village in Belpada block. […]
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Bhubaneswar: The BJP Legislature Party (LP) would meet here today to elect its leader who will eventually be the Leader of Opposition (LoP) in the State Assembly. Apart from Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, and party State-unit president Basanta Panda, the BJP legislature party meeting will be attended by BJP national general secretary and MP Saroj […]
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Bhubaneswar: A day after being named BJP Rajya Sabha candidate, Ashwini Vaishnav on Saturday formally joined the saffron party at the State headquarters here in the presence of party State unit president and Kalahandi MP Basanta Panda. BJD is also supporting the candidature of Vaishnav, a former Indian Administrative Service officer. He was the private […]
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Bhubaneswar: Minutes after announcing the name of former bureaucrat Ashwani Vaishnav along with the party’s two senior leaders – Amar Patnaik and Sasmit Patra – as party’s candidates for by-elections to the three Rajya Sabha seats in Odisha, Chief Minister and BJD president Naveen Patnaik on Friday clarified that Vaishnav will be BJP candidate for […]
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Bhubaneswar: The ruling BJD in Odisha on Friday announced the names of BJD IT cell chief Amar Patnaik, party spokesperson Sasmit Patra and former IAS officer Aswini Baishnab as its candidates for by-elections to three Rajya Sabha seats in the State. Chief Minister and BJD president Naveen Patnaik announced Patnaik, Patra and Baishnab’s names for the […]
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Bhubaneswar: Notification was issued on Tuesday for by-election to three Rajya Sabha seats vacated by three senior BJD leaders – Achyuta Samanta, Pratap Keshari Deb and Soumya Ranjan Patnaik. As per the notification issued by the Odisha Assembly Secretariat, candidates can file nominations between 11 am and 3 pm till June 25. While the nomination […]
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