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Odisha Secretariat Bhubaneswar, April 20: The Odisha Government on Monday declared six per cent hike in DA for its employees with retrospective effect from January 1, 2015. The announcement of the hike would now raise the allowance from the present 107 to 113 per cent and benefit about four lakh State Government employees and pensioners, […]

— ECI urged for action Bhubaneswar, April 19: Ruling BJD and CPI (M) leaders Odisha are miffed over BJP’s membership drive as they claim that they too have been receiving SMSs inviting them to join the saffron outfit. A controversy has erupted after senior BJD and CPI (M) leaders received messages from the BJP on their […]

Bhubaneswar, April 18: In a bid to create awareness about the importance of ancient monuments and heritage sites hundreds of people, including students of different schools and colleges, folk artists and people from different walks of life like politicians and bureaucrats conducted a heritage walk to mark the World Heritage Day on Saturday here.  The […]

–Kalinga  TV launched– Bhubaneswar, April 18: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Saturday formally launched Kalinga TV, a 24*7 regional news channel, and called upon it to be constructive media organisation thereby helping the Government in solving the issues of people. Patnaik stated, “It will be not wrong to say that it is a golden period […]

Bhubaneswar, April 17: The Biju Janata Dal (BJD) in Odisha on Friday organsied a blood donation camp namely Jeevan Bindu at the State party office here to mark the 17th death anniversary of former Chief Minister Biju Patnaik. At least 54 units of blood were collected from the camp which was inaugurated by Chief Minister […]

Bhubaneswar, April 17: An airport familiarization and joint exercise was conducted at Biju Patnaik International Airport for the selected group of State Fire service personnel on Friday. This was a half-day exercise covering the familiarisation with the airport facilities, operations of the Airport Fire Service, handling of appliances, rescue and fire fighting procedures, building fire […]

Says it is important to stress on the stand of State Government Bhubaneswar, April 16: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Thursday favoured net neutrality and wrote to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) Chairman to safe guard the basic principle of the same.  Maintaining that the IT sector today at the top of […]

Bhubaneswar, Apr 5: On the last day of the campaigning for polls the eight urban local bodies (ULBs) of the State which would go to polls on April 7, top leaders of the three political parties, the BJD, the Congress and the BJP, along with candidates and local workers organisied rallies, meetings and door-to-door campaign […]

Bhubaneswar, March 27: Starting from March 29 (Sunday) one more Air India flight with mixed class version will operate in the Delhi/Bhubaneswar/Delhi sector. The mixed class version aircraft which will run daily will depart Delhi at 11.05 am and arrive at Biju Patnaik International Airport at 1.05 pm. The same will leave for Delhi at […]

Bhubaneswar, March 26: One International non-schedule chartered flight of Air China (Boeing 737) landed at Biju Patnaik International Airport on Thursday. The flight which was directly from Beijing, China left for onward journey to Zanzibar (Africa) on the same day. The Biju Patnaik International Airport was awarded the international status in October, 2013 and since […]