Category: Uncategorized

Bhubaneswar: Bahujan Samaja Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati on Sunday while addressing an election meeting in Bhubaneswar promised that if her party form Government at the Centre after the general elections, it would definitely give the Special Category State (SCS) status to Odisha. Accusing the Congress, the BJP and the regional parties like the BJD of […]

Bhubaneswar: Premier B-school Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar (XIMB), registered 100 per cent placements in its annual campus recruitment drive – Xuberance 2014.   All the students of Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM) (Business Management) of 2012-14 batch grabbed lucrative job offers.  “Despite the prevailing uncertainty in market conditions and the ever-increasing competitions, XIMB […]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister and BJD president Naveen Patnaik along with many senior leaders of his party on Wednesday filed their nominations for the ensuing Assembly and Lok Sabha polls. After performing worship at Tara Tarini Temple here, Patnaik filed four sets of nomination papers from Hinjili Assembly constituency in Ganjam district at the sub-collector’s […]

Bhubaneswar: A total of 3368 acute diarrhoea cases were detected out of which 29 died during 2013. Similarly there was 3287 cases of food poisioning and 18 deaths, 119 cases of measles and one death, 345 cases of jaundice and one death, 93 cases of anthrax and no death, 7132 cases of dengue and 6 […]

Bhubaneswar: The Samata Kranti Dal (SKD) on Saturday announced the names of 17 Assembly candidates for the first phase of the elections scheduled on April 10. While party president and sitting Biramitrapur MLA George Tirkey will contest from Biramitrapur Assembly constituency which is reserved for ST, Sitaram Satapathy will contest from Titlagarh, Geetanjali Pradhan from […]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Nagarika Samaj (ONAS), a civil society alliance, demanded a CAG audit of the accounts of the power distribution companies in Odisha. This demanded here at consultation meeting on the ‘proposed hike in electricity tariff.’ Panchanan Kanungo, former minister and president ‘Odisha Vidyut Upabhokta Mahasangha’ termed proposed hike move as anti-people and urged the […]

Bhubaneswar: After announcing the names of 42 candidates on Friday, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Saturday announced its second list of 51 Assembly candidates. Party State convenor Nishikant Mohapatra announced the names at the State party office here. The names of candidates for 51 Assembly seats are Kishore Das (Moroda), Badal Hembram (Baripada), Dharmendra […]

Dhamra/Bhadrak: As many as 21 students of Dhamra Port periphery high schools, who had secured above 75 percent marks in the last High School Certificate (HSC) examination, were awarded DPCL Merit Scholarship.   At a function held within Dhamra Port premises Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of DPCL Santosh Kumar Mohapatra, Chief Operating Officer Subrat Tripathy […]

Bhubaneswar: In the first phase the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Friday announced the names of its candidates for 42 Assembly seats. Party State convener Nishikant Mohapatra announced the names for 42 Assembly seats which falls under eight Lok Sabha constituencies at the State party office here. The names of 42 Assembly constituencies are Santosh […]

Bhubaneswar: More than 100 elderly people were screamed and counselled here at early kidney evaluation programme and check up camp here at Red Cross Bhawan being organized by the Indian Red Cross Society, Odisha State Branch (IRCS-OSB) in collaboration with Utkal Kidney Foundation and Apollo Hospital on the eve of the World Kidney Day. Senior […]