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Bhubaneswar, December 18: The Odisha Government on Thursday decided to cancel all the allotments of houses and plots made under discretionary quota (DQ) since January 1, 1995 allotted by the Bhubaneswar Development Authority (BDA), the Cuttack Development Authority (CDA) and the Odisha State Housing Board (OSHB). Decision to this effect was taken at the State […]

Bhubaneswar, December 17: The Odisha BJP expects a congregation of over one lakh people at a public meeting of party national president Amit Shah here on January 6, on the first day of his two-day visit to Odisha.  Party Odisha unit president KV Singh Deo told reporters here that the public meeting will be held […]

Bhubaneswar, December 17: After getting assurance from the Shree Jagannath Temple Administration (SJTA), as many as 243 temporary employees of world famous Jagannath temple at Puri on the third day of their indefinite strike on Wednesday called off their strike. The agitating employees of the 12th century shrine withdrew their strike after the SJTA Ritual Administrator […]

UN Behera Bhubaneswar, December 12: The Odisha Government on Friday effected a mini change in the senior IAS level and appointed 1983 batch IAS officer Upendra Nath Behera as the Development Commissioner while 1984 batch IAS officer R Balakrishnan has been posted as the Additional Chief Secretary (Finance). The Government also posted 1981 batch IAS […]

Bhubaneswar, December 12: Maintaining that Odisha is suffering huge loss on account of reduction in Central Sales Tax (CST) rate, Finance Minister Pradip Amat on Thursday urged the Union Government to release the balance amount of Rs 3,417.3 crore as compensation towards CST reduction at the earliest. Speaking at the Empowered Committee of State Finance […]

Bhubaneswar, December 11: In order to ensure inclusive growth and employment in the State, the Odisha Government would spend Rs 5,000 crore in next five years towards IT/ITES/ESDM (Information Technology/Information Technology Enabled Services/Electronic System Design and Manufacturing). Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik while inaugurating the new IT block of Tech-Mahindra adding to the existing block that houses 500 […]

Bhubaneswar, December 6: Leader of Opposition in Odisha Assembly on Saturday came down heavily on Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik for holding Opposition for disrupting proceedings of the House and said adjournment of the winter session of the House sine die ahead of schedule was the game plan of the former.    “It is very unfortunate […]

Bhubaneswar, December 6:  Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Saturday left for New Delhi on a four day visit. He is scheduled to return the State on December 9. The Chief Minister will attend the Chief Ministers’ meeting on Sunday convened by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to discuss the structure, scope and role of the new […]

Bhubaneswar, December 4: For the second time in a span of eight months, a charter non-scheduled flight (Aircraft type-GLF4) of Canada carrying two passengers along with three crew members (all Canadian nationality) landed here at the Biju Patnaik International Airport on Thursday, said an official release. The charter was originated from Toronto Airport of Canada […]

Bhubaneswar, December 3: With an aim to incentivize the police verification and expedite the district police headquarters (DPHQ) model in the State for early issue of passports, all police districts in State will be linked for passport-police linkage by January 2015. This apart, hand held devices will be provided to every police station by March-2015 […]