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Bhubaneswar: The Budget Session of Odisha Legislative Assembly would start from June 25 with Governor Ganeshi Lal’s address. Finance Minister Niranjan Pujari would present his first Budget for 2019-20 FY on June 28. This will be first full Budget of the Naveen Patnaik Government after it voted to power for fifth consecutive term. In view […]
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Bhubaneswar: BJP leaders on Sunday reviewed party’s performance in the recently concluded simultaneous Lok Sabha and State Assembly elections and also chalked out strategy for deferred election in Patkura besides byelection in Bijepur. The meeting chaired by party president Basanta Panda was attended by Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, party national party president Baijyant Panda, party […]
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Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Sunday embarked on a week-long visit to New Delhi to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi on June 11 amid speculation that the Government may offer the Lok Sabha’s Deputy Speaker’s post to Patnaik’s Biju Janata Dal (BJD). “I will meet PM Narendra Modi on June 11 and discuss about […]
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Puri: Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas and Steel Dharmendra Pradhan on Saturday said that Odisha will be the hub for ancillary industry in steel sector in the country. “While India is the second largest steel producing country in the world, Odisha is a steel hub in it. The Union Government with support of […]
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Bhubaneswar: Paradip MLA Sambit Routray on Friday said that his father Damodar Routray, who has joined BJP after being expelled from BJD in September last year, can make a comeback to the ruling party if the party supremo and Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik wishes. “I think my father is not happy after joining BJP,” Sambit […]
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Bhubaneswar: BJP on Friday demanded immediate arrest of Patnagarh BJD MLA Saroj Meher for forcing a Government employee to do sit-ups in full public glare. Patnagarh Public Works Department (PWD) Junior Engineer (JE) Jaswant Sabar was forced to do sit-ups by MLA Meher at Gambhari village under Belpada tehsil on Wednesday for alleged poor quality […]
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Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik along with his BJD MPs will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi on June 9 in New Delhi. It will be Chief Minister’s first meeting with PM Modi after the election results were announced on May 23. Sources said Patnaik will present several crucial demands pertaining to the interest of Odisha […]
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Bhubaneswar: An Odisha BJD MLA has landed in controversy after he was caught on camera punishing a Junior Engineer (JE) of the State Government by forcing him to make sit-ups in full public view. In the viral video shared in social media and different news channels, the ruling party legislator from Patnagarh, Saroj Meher can be […]
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Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Tuesday directed his Council of Ministers to submit a progress report on 7th day of every month on implementation status of manifesto promises made by his party BJD during the Lok Sabha and Assembly elections. During the first Council of Ministers’ meeting on May 29 the CM had emphasized […]
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Bhubaneswar: The Freethought Party of India (FPI) on Tuesday pulled up JD(U) chief and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s “selective love” for the principle of “Proportional Representation”. Since the JDU has 16 MPs in the Lok Sabha and six MPs in the Rajya Sabha, Kumar insisted that the party should be given one Cabinet and […]
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