Tag: National News

Bhubaneswar, January 22, 2018: In a small village of Manipur, one last veteran of Netaji’s Indian National Army still lovingly cherishes the first flag that was unfurled in Indian Territory. It was not the tricolor, but the INA Flag that was flown in liberated India at Moirang on the April 14, 1944 by Colonel Shaukat […]

Pune, January 21, 2018: You cannot lead people unless you love them. When you keep people first, it is good politics and when you keep people first there is no anti-incumbency, said Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Sunday here. The four-time Chief Minister said this while addressing an impressive gathering at the Eighth Bharatiya […]

Bhubaneswar, January 19, 2018: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik will be conferred the “Ideal Chief Minister Award” by former President of India Pratibha Devisingh Patil at the Bharat Chhatra Sansad (Indian Student Parliament) hosted by MIT World Peace University at Pune on Sunday. The four-time Odisha Chief Minister is being honoured for transforming Odisha through clean […]

Bhubaneswar, January 18, 2018: The Odisha State Disaster Management Authority (OSDMA) has decided to have a comprehensive annual training calendar for imparting training on disaster preparedness to all the stakeholders. The training calendar was approved by the 31st meeting of its governing body held on Thursday under the chairmanship of Chief Secretary Aditya Prasad Padhi. […]

File photo Bhubaneswar, January 18, 2018: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday wrote to Union Railway Minister Piyush Goyal seeking Rs 6,500 crore railway package for Odisha in the Union 2018-19 budget with focus on upgrading infrastructure, improving actual expenditure, enhancing passenger amenities, sanction of important new lines and two dedicated freight corridors. Details of […]

Bhubaneswar, January 12, 2018: The post-mortem report of Shreyas Kesharwani, the 16-year-old boy, who was allegedly brutally tortured inside the premises of Sri Chaitanya Institute at Marikavalasa in Vishakhapatnam by other students, has revealed that contusion in heart, pulmonary effusion and pulmonary embolism (blood clot inside lungs) was the cause of his death. Officials from […]

Bhubaneswar, January 11, 2018: Baramunda bus stand will get a grand makeover as a best Inter-State Bus Terminal (ISBT) by April 2019. Conceptualized by Bhubaneswar Development Authority (BDA) and Commerce and Transport Department, the proposed ISBT will boost intra-city, inter-city and inter-state bus services with state-of-the-art facilities for people in Bhubaneswar, said Chief Minister Naveen […]

Cuttack, January 11, 2018: Director General of Police (DGP) Dr Rajendra Prasad Sharma on Thursday inaugurated the “e-grievance mechanism” of western range (WR) of the State police. The DGP also launched the facility of Rourkela, Sundargarh and Keonjhar police districts through videoconferencing in a specially arranged function at the State Police Headquarters here. For redressal […]

New Delhi, January 11, 2018: With Delhi University authorities gearing up to launch a course in Cyber Security and law to train professionals with practical handling of the issue, Union Electronics and Information Technology and Law and Justice Ravi Shankar Prasad on Thursday said that all possible support will be extended to the university.   The […]