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Bhubaneswar: Finance Minister Niranjan Pujari on Friday presented a Rs 20,714 crore separate agriculture budget for 2019-20 financial year in the Odisha Assembly. This was the first budget of the Naveen Patnaik Government after it voted to power for fifth consecutive term. Last year Rs 16,765 crore was provided in the farm budget. Odisha has […]
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Bhubaneswar: The Assembly unanimously elected Angul MLA Rajani Kant Singh as Deputy Speaker on Thursday. He is a four-time legislator from the ruling Biju Janata Dal. His candidature was proposed by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Bikram Keshari Arukh supported it. As he was the lone candidate, Speaker Surjya Narayan Patrao announced […]
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Bhubaneswar: Women in the State would henceforth get Rs 10 lakh instead of Rs 7 lakh for their treatment under the State’s flagship Biju Swasthya Kalyan Yojana (BSKY). Governor Prof Ganeshi Lal informed this while addressing the opening day of the 16th Odisha Legislative Assembly here on Tuesday. He assured that every widow and destitute […]
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Bhubaneswar: Odisha Assembly Speaker Surjya Narayan Patro on Tuesday announced a seven-member Panel of Chairpersons. The members are Debi Prasad Mishra, Prafulla Mallick, Ashwini Patra, Snehangini Chhuria, and Prashant Muduli of ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD), Subash Panigrahi of BJP and Santosh Singh Saluja of Congress. The Chairpersons assist the Speaker in the smooth conduct […]
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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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