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Bhubaneswar: The Center for Child and Women Development (CCWD) on Thursday celebrated Children’s day at Kalrahanga Chandan Ghar premise here. As many as 200 children from different slum pockets and city outskirts participated. Noted child novelist Sarat kumar Nayak participated as chief guest.   Nayak focused on child friendly environment. Among others State convener of […]

On the occasion of 9th convocation of KIIT University Bhubaneswar: The KIIT University is all set to hold its 9th annual convocation ceremony on Saturday. A total of 2783 students of 2012 – 13 graduating batch from all streams of the University would receive their degrees while gold and silver medals will also be awarded […]

Bhubaneswar: A total of 2,67,259 beneficiaries have received payment in Janani Surakshya Yojana (JSY)throughout the State in 2013-14, ( upto September). JSY is a safe motherhood intervention under the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) being implemented with the objective of reducing maternal and neo-natal mortality by promoting institutional delivery among the poor pregnant women in […]

Bhubaneswar: The BJP Kisan Morcha on Wednesday demanded that the State Government should publish a white paper, containing list of farmers who have received groundnut seeds during the last kharif. Morcha president Maheswar Sahoo said that groundnut is cultivated in almost all the districts of Odisha covering an area of 2.51 lakh hectares for which […]

Bhubaneswar: In order to prepare a long term safety measure to protect people in cyclone and flood prone areas in the State by strengthening disaster management capacity, the Odisha government on Wednesday sought external funding assistance to the tune of Rs 2225 crore from the Centrally-run programmes along with multilateral funding agencies like World Bank, […]

Rourkela: With an aim to ensure a common platform to more than hundred delegates including scientist, industrialist and young talents of the country and abroad to discuss, share and disseminate the latest development and advancement in the field of Tissue Engineering and regenerate medicine, a three day international conference on ‘Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine’ […]

Bhubaneswar: Oppositions Congress and BJP on Tuesday took to street demanding resignation of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik in the Itishree Pradhan molestation and murder case. They too demanded that the case be handed over to CBI for an impartial inquiry. While the Mahila Congress took out a rally at the Mahatma Gandhi Marg led by […]

Bhubaneswar: A two member team of National Commission for Women (NCW) Hemalata Kheria and Mansai Pradhan on Tuesday started its probe into the molestation and murder of a lady teacher Itishree Pradhan.  The team visited the victim’s house near Delang in Puri district and talked to her family members. Besides, it will visit the school […]

Bhubaneswar: The winter session of Odisha Assembly will begin on November 28 and continue till December 26. Notification to this effect was issued by the Assembly Secretariat following the approval of Governor SC Jamir, sources said on Tuesday. The 29-day session will have 23 working days. During the session the first supplementary statement of expenditure […]

Bhubaneswar: A four-day long 12th Anjali National Children’s Festival was kick started here at Advasi ground on Monday. More than 6o0 children from various States like Punjab, Jammu and Kashmir, Pondicherry, Tamil Nadu, Goa, Rajasthan, West Bengal, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh and Odisha have taken part in the festival. The event will culminate on November 14. […]