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Purnima Hembram Bhubaneswar, Sep 14: International athlete Purnima Hembram has bagged the prestigious 22nd Ekalabya Award for the award year 2014. She has a brilliant international and national track record for the past two years and has bagged gold and silver medals.   She will get a cash award of Rs 2 lakh along with […]

Bhubaneswar, Sep 12: Union Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Friday said that Odisha will receive about Rs 1 lakh crore worth of investment in coming five years in petrochemicals, oil and gas pipelines, LNG and LPG terminals, strategic oil reserve, etc. The Ministry has already invested Rs Rs 34,000 crore for the […]

Bhubaneswar, Sep12: You will now have to pay a fine of up to Rs 5000 if caught dumping garbage on roads except in the dustbins and prescribed locations provided or marked by the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) in the capital city of Bhubaneswar, sources said. After the failure of several awareness campaigns, requests and many […]

Bhubaneswar, Sept. 11: Odisha health and family welfare, information and public relations minister Mr Atanu Sabyasachi Nayak released photo-feature book ‘Capturing Nature’s Fury’ by eminent journalist Akshaya Rout here on Thursday. Published by Indus Valley Times, the book is an attempt by the author to capture the nature’s devastation through camera lens. Releasing the book, […]

Bhubaneswar, Sep 11: The Joint enforcement squad consisting of officials of BDA, BMC and General Administration department, backed by police personnel, continued its anti-encroachment drive for the second consecutive day on Thursday to clear encroachments busy CRP square and Priyadarshini Market. The team removed nearly 40 street vendors , demolished extended portion of 25 business […]

Bhubaneswar, Sep 10: The Bhubaneswar Development authority (BDA), Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) and General Administration department on Wednesday cleared nearly 1.5km road by removing 35 unauthorized boundary walls, 25 extended structures, three commercial establishments, 13 cabins in GGP colony canal road in a joint eviction drive. However, the eviction of about other unauthorized structures could […]

Many proposals approved at the 127th Authority meeting Bhubaneswar, Sep 9: The Bhubaneswar Development Authority (BDA) will construct 2900 houses for Economic Weaker Sections (EWS) at Shampur and develop a slum dwellers rehabilitation project at a cost of Rs 16 crore for 239 slum dwellers of Tarini Basti and Arabinda Basti spread over Damana, Gadakan […]

Less than 50% households have electricity facility Bhubaneswar, Sep 8: With 12 per cent share, Odisha is second only to Gujarat in terms of share in new investments attracted by power sector in India, apex industry body ASSOCHAM said on Monday.  “Odisha has attracted new investments worth about Rs four lakh crore of the total […]

Bhubnaeswar, Sep 8: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has sought an action taken report (ATR) from Inspector General (IG) Prison over the supply of contraband narcotics and other restricted items in Choudwar Jail within four weeks. The directions came in response to a complaint filed by human rights activist Akhand alleging that no action […]

Bhubaneswar, Sep 8:Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Monday inaugurated Dhauli police station near Dhauli peace pagoda. With the set up of this new PS the number of police stations under Commissionerate Police reaches 43. According to sources, the new police station building constructed at the cost of Rs 77 lakh will have two SIs, two […]