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Bhubaneswar, Sep 3: With a view to providing facility to the short distance passengers in sleeper class journey, East Coast Railway (ECoR) has taken steps to allow passengers to avail unreserved sleeper class journey in Nizamuddin-Amritsar Samata Express. Passengers can now avail this facility in sleeper class coach number S-1 in Visakhapatnam bound 12808 Nizamuddin-Visakhapatnam […]

Bhubaneswar, Sep 2: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik would launch the Biju Kanya Ratna scheme on Saturday. The scheme envisages improving Sex Ratio at Birth (SRB) and Child Sex Ratio (CSR) in three districts of the State and development of girls. Initially, the scheme will be launched in three districts – Ganjam, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik’s […]

Bhubaneswar, Sep 2: The Fisheries Department on Friday signed a lease agreement with the Falcon Marine Exports Limited which will manage three clusters having a gross water area of 433 hectare of Jagatajore-Banapada Shrimp Culture Project in Kendrapara district. The clusters comprise 437 culture ponds with a water spread area of 257 hectares. The State […]

Bhubaneswar, Sep 2: FISHFED, Odisha’s apex fisheries cooperative organisation, on Friday signed an agreement with the Falcon Marine Exports Limited to set up 26 Chilika Fresh kiosks in Bhubaneswar on a public private partnership (PPP) mode. As per the agreement, FISHFED will get a rent of Rs 61.92 lakh in the first year, which will […]

Bhubaneswar, Sep 1: Odisha Legislative Assembly on Thursday ratified the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Constitutional Amendment Bill passed by the Parliament, at a special one-day session. The proposal was passed unanimously by the House, making Odisha the sixteenth State to ratify the GST bill, billed as the biggest tax reform since Independence. The Bill […]

Sambalpur, Sep 1: In yet another historic move under the Union Government, Coal India Limited has constituted 10th Joint Bipartite Committee for the Coal Industry (JBCCI) for pay revision of its over three lakh non-executive employees working in its eight subsidiaries.  . The decision in this regard was taken at the 15th meeting of the […]

Bhubaneswar, Sep 1: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik would inaugurate naming of the flyover road from Satyanagar to Cuttack-Puri Road after Saint Mother Teresa on Sunday at 9.30 am. Housing and Urban Development Minister Pushpendra Singh Deo, Tourism and Culture Minister Ashok Chandra Panda, Cuttack MLA Debashish Samantaray, Bhubaneswar (Central) MLA Bijaya Kumar Mohanty, Bhubaneswar (North) […]

Bhubaneswar, Sep 1: Laxmi Puri, Assistant Secretary of United Nations and Deputy Executive Director, UN Women on Thursday visited KIIT University and Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS). Addressing the girl students of KISS, she said, “I have never seen such an empowered institution before. The girls you are today and women will become tomorrow, […]

Bhubaneswar, Sep 1: Around 300 delegates from more than 10 countries attended the inaugural function of two-day first international conference on LPG here on Thursday. The conference is being organised by Research and Development Initiative along with leading Public Sector oil companies, Indian Oil Corporation, Bharat Petroleum and Hindustan Petroleum Corporation. Jharkhand Governor Droupadi Murmu […]

Bhubaneswar, Sep 1: The State Home Department has refused to conduct an inquiry into the Kalahandi incident involving a tribal person, Dana Majhi (42), who carried the corpse of his wife for around 10 km as no vehicle or ambulance was provided by the district administration. The Home Department on Monday while disposing of a […]