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Bhubaneswar, Sep 16: All eyes will be on Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik’s argument at the proposed tripartite meeting between him, his Chhattisgarh counterpart Raman Singh and Union Water Resources Minister Uma Bharti on Mahanadi river water dispute on Saturday in New Delhi. Though the Chief Minister claimed that the State Government was fully prepared […]

Bhubaneswar, Sep 16: East Coast Railway (ECoR) is all set to launch a special cleanliness campaign to mark Swachh Rail-Swachh Bharat- Swachh Saptah on Saturday. The campaign would culminate on September 25. The campaign would be conducted in the ECoR jurisdiction involving “Swachh Paryavaran-Clean Environment”, “Swachh Station-Clean Station”, “Swachh Railgadi-Clean Train”, “Swachh Neer-Clean Water”, “Swachh […]

Bhubaneswar, Sep 16: With healthcare technology undergoing a revolution in the past decade, the SOA University here is focusing on the establishment of a superlative Centre for Bio-mechanical Engineering soon, university vice-chancellor Prof Amit Banerjee said on Friday. “We are planning to set up this facility for intense research. The university already has an inter-disciplinary […]

Cuttack, Sep 16: Almost a month after a Disproportionate Assets (DA) case was registered against them, Vigilance sleuth on Friday arrested a doctor couple working at Government-run Acharya Harihar Regional Cancer Centre (AHRCC) on charges of corruption. Vigilance sleuths said that the doctor couple Dr Surendranath Senapati and his wife Dr Diptirani Samanta had allegedly […]

Bhubaneswar, Sep 16: Expressing gratitude to various people’s organisations for their suggestions on Mahanadi river water dispute, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Friday said he was going to Delhi with a lot of hope that the Central Government will listen to the voice of Odisha and do justice to its people. “I am thankful to […]

Bhubaneswar, Sep 16: A special session on health would be organised at the Odisha Vikash Conclave (OVC) here from September 19 to 21. Topics like responsibility of patient welfare committees and district health committees, health service in remote areas and technique of providing sustainable health services, women and child development, village welfare and cooperation with […]

Bhubaneswar, Sep, 14: State budget utilisation during the current financial year has gone up to around Rs 16,202 crore by end of August, 2016 compared to the expenditure of Rs 12,589 crore during the same period of last fiscal year. This was revealed at the all Secretaries’ meeting held under the chairmanship of Chief Secretary […]

Balasore, Sep 13: Although no fresh untoward incident took place in the violence hit Soro in Balasore on Tuesday, the dusk-to-dawn curfew would continue to be in force to prevent any further violence, said Balasore SP Niti Sekhar. Due to the Eid festival, prohibitory orders under Section 144 of CrPC were partly lifted between 8 […]

Bhubaneswar, Sep 13: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), probing the chit fund scam in Odisha, on Tuesday grilled Kabita Sethy, the wife of Artha Tatwa (AT) Group CMD Pradip Sethy here. However, she did not reveal anything to media regarding her grilling after coming out of the CBI office here. Sources said the CBI […]

Bhubaneswar, Sep 12: Stung by arrest of a gang for allegedly looting money from youths after promising jobs in the Railways, the East Coast Railway (ECoR) has formally written to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to probe the case. “East Coast Railway has formally written to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to take […]