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Bhubaneswar, May 7, 2018: Barely seven months after the enactment of a historic legislation to grant rights to urban slum dwellers, the Odisha Government on Monday started distributing land right certificates (pattas) to them as part of its Slum Land Titling Project. In the first phase, about 2000 families were given pattas in a function […]
Continue ReadingBhubaneswar, May 6, 2018: The Odisha Government on Sunday entered into a historic partnership with Tata Trusts for launching Odisha Comprehensive Cancer Care Programme, with an aim to provide best quality cancer care to the suffering people of the State. Odisha Comprehensive Cancer Care Programme is a landmark initiative to bring advanced cancer care to […]
Continue ReadingBhubaneswar, May 2, 2018: Lightning has become a major disaster in Odisha that claims more than 400 human lives on an average per year. And to reduce the death toll, the State Government is all set to set up a lightning detection system. The Earth Networks, a USA based organisation, made a presentation on “Total […]
Continue ReadingBhubaneswar, May 1, 2018: On May 5, Odisha will be presented with the Prime Minister’s award as the Best State in the country in skill development of rural youth. “Our state has left behind all major states with second and third placed Kerala and Andhra Pradesh way below us in all parameters,” said Chief Minister […]
Continue ReadingCuttack, April 28, 2014: With an aim to showcase Odisha as the most happening hub for skilled manpower and also to make Skilled in Odisha a global brand, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday inaugurated first-of-its-kind State-level Skills Competition ‘Odisha Skills-2018’ at the Indoor Stadium in Cuttack. Odisha Skills is the State-level chapter of the […]
Continue ReadingBhubaneswar, April 28, 2018: Researcher Anil Dhir, who located and identified iconic Dakota DC-3 aircraft in which Biju Patnaik rescued Indonesia’s former vice president and Prime Minister in his famous heroic act in 1947, at the Kolkata airport around five years back and since been trying to bring it to Odisha has written to Chief […]
Continue ReadingNew Delhi, April 27, 2018: Maintaining that ITIs played a vital role in economic development of the country, especially in terms of supplying skilled manpower to industries, Union Petroleum and Natural Gas, Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Friday said that the Government’s aim is to ensure one ITI in every block of […]
Continue ReadingBhubaneswar, April 16, 2017: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Monday flagged off the sixth phase Baristha Nagarika Tirtha Yatra train from Sambalpur railway with around 1000 senior citizens on pilgrimage to Shirdi, Nashik and Trimbakeshwar in Maharashtra. The entire tour will take a week’s time. A doctor will accompany the pilgrims in the train. The […]
Continue ReadingSambalpur, April 15, 2018: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Sunday dedicated to the nation the new bridge over IB river in Sambalpur district. At 2.5 kms, it is the longest bridge in western Odisha and the second longest in the whole State, and was completed in almost three years. The bridge will chart a new […]
Continue ReadingBhubaneswar, April 14, 2018: The Indian National Trust for Arts and Cultural Heritage (INTACH) held a heritage flight of Carrier Pigeons of the Odisha Police Pigeon service from Bhubaneswar to Cuttack. The fifty pigeons that were flown from the OUAT Grounds carried a missive with a message on heritage conservation and preservation. Speaking on the […]
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