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Bhubaneswar, February 13: Health and Family Welfare Minister Atanu Sabyasachi Nayak on Friday informed the Odisha Assembly that 2,272 posts of various categories, including 346 post of doctors are lying vacant in three Government-run medical college and hospitals in the State.  Replying to a query of MLA Dilip Ray, the Minister informed the House that […]

Bhubaneswar, February 5: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Thursday launched the ambitious closed circuit TV (CCTV)-based city surveillance system in the capital city, first of its kind in the State, for effective law and order management, crime control, better traffic regulation and control and surveillance over criminals. After launching the first phase surveillance system […]

Kalinga Sena vows to stop vulgarity Bhubaneswar, February 4: This February 14, the Kalinga Sena, a regional political outfit here, has said that it would protest vulgarities at parks, shopping malls and other places in the name of Valentine’s Day by video recording. “We have formed 10 teams each consisting of seven girls from four […]

Bhubaneswar, February 3: Bhubaneswar-Cuttack Commissioner of Police Dr RP Sharma on Tuesday informed that crew members and other eyewitnesses travelling in the IndiGo Airlines’ Mumbai to Bhubaneswar flight will be examined into the alleged woman misbehave case reported on January 27. The incident took place on January 27 on an Indigo flight en route to […]

Bhubaneswar, January 29: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik is likely to launch an ambitious CCTV surveillance system in the capital city of Bhubaneswar on February 5. A meeting was held at the Commissionerate headquarters here wherein the Commissioner of Police Dr RP Sharma, Police Housing Corporation chairman and the BSNL officials attended. It was decided to […]

Bhubaneswar, January 23: The Balasore police in Odisha on Friday arrested one Iswar Chandra Behera (35) of Kantipur village under Baisingha police station of Mayurbhanj, working as contractual photographer and videographer at Integrated Test Range (ITR), Chandipur on the charges of spying for Pakistani intelligence agency ISI. According to Eastern Range IG Asit Panigrahi, the […]

Bhubaneswar, Jan 21, 2015: Former PCC President Niranjan Patnaik has reacted strongly to the news that Odisha has become one of the worst performing states in the nation-wide Tiger census released by the Union Environment Ministry. “While the total tiger population in the country has increased from 1706 in 2011 to 2226 in 2014, showing […]

Bhubaneswar, January 21: Lord Jagannath’s abode Puri has been included in the National Heritage Development and Augmentation Yojana (HRIDAY) and will get special grants for developmental works. Initially Rs 22.54 crore has been allocated for pilgrim city Puri under the scheme. The new scheme which was jointly launched by Union Urban Development Minister M Venkaiah […]

Bhubaneswar, January 15:  In a bid to help citizens interact with police and get services without any hassle, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Thursday launched a mobile application facility of the Bhubaneswar-Cuttack Commissionerate police on its eighth Raising Day here. “People can download the App on their smart phones. They will find different icons, indicating […]

Four Ministers, 6 MLAs, Dy Speaker have two Govt houses each  Bhubaneswar, January 14: A total of 445 Government quarters have been illegally occupied by Ministers, MLAs, ex-Ministers, ex-MLAs, bureaucrats and Government employees in the capital city of Bhubaneswar resulting in a loss to the tune of Rs 7 crore to the State exchequer, a […]