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Bhubaneswar: Odisha has bagged the award in best stall decoration category in a colourful ceremony at the TTE and OTM Mumbai, India’s biggest travel and tourism fair held from February 7 to 9.  A delegation led by Tourism director M. R. Patnaik along with 18 tour operators, hoteliers, travel agents from Odisha participated in the […]

Three still missing Sambalpur: Special Relief Commissioner Pradipta Kumar Mohapatra on Monday informed that with the recovery of 18 more bodies from the Hirakud dam, the death toll in the Sunday’s boat capsizing incident mounted to 29. Sources said three persons are still missing and the toll could go up to 31 if their bodies […]

Calls for a new law to prevent recurrence Bhubaneswar: Asking Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik not to take boat capsizing incident in Hirakud reservoir, where nearly 30 persons were feared killed lightly, former Minister and senior Congress leader Niranjan Patnaik urged him to ensure framing of a new law to prevent recurrence of these events in […]

Bhubaneswar: Senior Congress leader Niranjan Patnaik has flayed the decision of the Odisha Assembly Speaker not to permit an opposition-sponsored adjournment motion on the full ramifications of the Shah Panel Report on the Odisha Mining Scam. The first two volumes of the justice Shah Commission’s report came to public light only last week and therefore […]

Bhubaneswar: In a major setback to Hi-Tech group chairman Tirupati Panigrahi, the Supreme Court has again rejected the bail pleas him and two of his associates in the land fraud case.  The Court has fixed March 31 as the next date for hearing. Sources said the apex court on Friday rejected Panigrahi’s bail plea as […]

Bhubaneswar: On a two day visit to the State Congress vice president and campaign committee chief, Rahul Gandhi will arrive here at Bhubaneswar on Sunday. He will arrive at the Biju Patnaik International Airport at 11 am and will head straight to Nehuru Yuva Kendra here, for an interaction with students and youths, told Odisha […]

Bhubaneswar: Reiterating the CBI probe demand into the mining scam in the State, BJP State unit president KV Singh Deo here at a Press conference said, “Ever since the MB Shah Commission report on Odisha’s mining scam was leaked, the Naveen Patnaik-led BJD government has gone into an overdrive. They have written to the Centre […]

Bhubaneswar: The three-day fourth international management convention-IMC’2014 being organized by Asian School of Business Management (ASBM) kicked off here at the ASBM on Thursday. Intellectuals from across the globe including countries like USA, Nepal, France have come together to attend the convention. The topic of the convention is ‘Business of Being in Business: New Prospective.’ […]

Bhubaneswar: The Nikhila Utkal Sankirtan Mahasangha, which represents over 1 lakh Sankirtan artists throughout the State as its members, threatened to hold a mass protest rally here in front of State Assembly on February 12 to press their longstanding demands.  More than 5,000 members will participate in the rally. Coming down heavily on the Government […]