Tag: National News

Bhubaneswar, October 25, 2017:  Odisha, which pioneered Climate Change Action Plan in 2010, has approved the second phase State Climate Change Action Plan (SCCAP) covering the period 2016-17 to 2021-22 with to combat the challenges of climate change. Around Rs 31,667 will be spent for the purpose. “Odisha as a lead State in implementation of […]

Bhubaneswar, October 25, 2017: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday announced financial assistance for drought-hit farmers.  “Agriculture input subsidy will be provided to the small and marginal farmers who have sustained crop loss of 33% and above at the rate of Rs 6,800 per hectare of land in rainfed/ non-irrigated areas and Rs 13,500 per […]

Bhubaneswar, October 23, 2017: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik’s Public Relations Officer (PRO) Sukanta Panda has landed in a fresh controversy after he had posted pictures of Prime Minister Narendra Modi with derogatory remarks in social media groups WhatsApp. On Sunday Panda had allegedly posted the pictures of Modi with derogatory remarks in a WhatApp group, […]

Kolkata, October 22, 2017:  The Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH), West Bengal and Odisha Chapters  released the “Listing and Documenting the Monuments of the Jagganath Sadak in West Bengal” on Sunday here at the Indian Museum. The project was flagged off by the West Bengal Governor in November 2015. INTACH had […]

Bhubaneswar, October 20, 2017: The nine-day International Gau-Navratri Mahotsav-2017 was inaugurated by Shankaracharya Nischalananda Saraswati at Saradhabali in Puri in the presence of Union Minister Dhamendra Pradhan. The Mahotsav which is being organised in Odisha for the first time witnessed a huge crowd on the inaugural day. The International Go-Navratri Mahotsav is known for spreading […]

Bhubaneswar, October 20, 2017: Union Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Friday launched supply of Piped Natural Gas (PNG) for as many as 255 residents of Bhubaneswar. With this, GAIL started supply of environment-friendly PNG to 255 houses in Nalco Nagar in Chandrasekharpur area here. One Jatindra Nayak, an officer at the Nalco […]

Bhubaneswar, October 20, 2017: Governor Dr Senayangba Chubatoshi Jamir on Friday denied reports in a section of media that he had a heart attack and was admitted at a Bhubaneswar-based private hospital. “It is unfortunate that a misinformation is doing rounds on media that I had a heart attack,” the Governor said in a video […]

Bhubaneswar, October 12, 2017: Expressing displeasure over the East Coast Railway’s (ECoR) decision to divert an existing Rajdhani Express and run the same via Sambalpur, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Thursday wrote to Union Minister of Railways Piyush Goyal seeking a new train between Bhubaneswar-Delhi Rajdhani Exp via Sambalpur instead of diverting the existing one.  […]

Bhubaneswar, October 12, 2017: Odisha has become the first State in the country to have formulated a Universal Eye Health Programme to keep people protected from avoidable vision related problems, and to provide comprehensive eye care to the persons of all age groups. Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik launched the programme here at a State-level function […]