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Bhubaneswar: BJD president and Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Friday announced a new programme of his party – ‘Odisha- Mo Parivar’ (Odisha – My family) with an aim to protect environment, encourage blood donation and help Odias stranded in foreign countries. The programme will be carried out under social service programme of the regional party. […]
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Bhubaneswar: Ruling BJD’s Rita Sahu won the Bijepur Assembly by-election with a record margin of 97,990 votes. She was polled more votes than what the BJD president and Chief Minister had polled from the seat in April. Patnaik had polled 1,10,166 votes while Rita was polled was 1,35,957. The winning margin of Rita in Bijepur […]
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Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Monday approved several measures for four hospitals based on feedbacks received from people during the visit of officials to various districts as part of Mo Sarkar initiative. The Chief Minister said the bed capacity at the Malkangiri district headquarters hospital (DHH) will be increased to 200. An attendant rest […]
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Bhubaneswar: Governor Prof Ganeshi Lal, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik and Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Tuesday greeted people on the occasion of Vijaya Dashami and Dussehra. In a message on social media, the Governor said, “Dussehra festival is a celebration of the triumph of truth over untruth, evil and injustice. Everybody should work to establish […]
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Bhubaneswar: In a major step to clean up the Government departments, the Odisha Government has “compulsorily retired” a Deputy Commissioner of Excise and Regional Transport Officer (RTO) facing charges ranging from corruption to disproportionate assets. The Government gave premature retirement to Deputy Commissioner of Excise Dilip Kumar Nag and Dhenkanal RTO Basanta Kumar Behera. The […]
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Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday initiated Mo Sarkar (My Government) programme and received ‘extremely satisfactory’ feedback from visitors of police stations and district headquarters hospitals (DHHs) on day one. Initiating the programme at Capital Hospital and Saheed Nagar police station here to mark the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, the Chief Minister […]
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Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday launched Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation’s sanitation programme – Mu Safaiwala campaign for behaviour change on sanitation on the occasion of the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. The initiative will encourage people to take pledge to keep their surroundings clean, involving students and residents’ welfare associations as change agents. […]
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Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Cabinet headed by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Thursday approved construction of Inter-State Bus Terminal (ISBT) at Baramumda and a Bus Depot at Khandagiri for relocation of the present OSRTC Bus Depot from Baramunda. The projects will improve public transit system in the city. The projects will be developed by Bhubaneswar Development […]
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Bhubaneswar: Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora on Friday announced the schedule for the Bijepur Assembly byelections, the seat vacated by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik after retaining his traditional Hinjili Assembly constituency. Polling will occur on October 21, with counting on October 24. The notification will be issued on September 23 and the last date for […]
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Bhubaneswar: Maintaining that Odisha has been working in close coordination with the Central Government and the neighbouring States to deal with the left wing extremism (LWE) problem firmly, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Monday urged the Centre to release pending Rs 227 crore under Security Related Expenditure (SRE) Scheme. Participating in the review meeting on […]
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