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Bhubaneswar: Gujarat cadre Odia IAS officer Girish Chandra Murmu was appointed as the first Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir. Murmu, a 1985-batch IAS officer currently holds the post of Expenditure Secretary in the Finance Ministry. He hails from Mayurbhanj district. Born on November 21, 1959 in Mayurbhanj district, Murmu was set to retire from […]
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Bhubaneswar: Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) India University Rankings 2020 has released the first top 100 universities of India. IIT Bhubaneswar has been ranked at 20th position, improving from its previous position of 21st in 2019. This is the second time QS has published separate ranking for top institutions in India. The British higher education analysts QS has ranked the […]
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Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Government on Friday nominated 10 Secretary-level officers to oversee development activities in 10 aspirational districts in the State Aspirational Districts Programme, said an official notification. According to Planning and Convergence Department notification, Agriculture Production Commissioner and Additional Chief Secretary PK Mohapatra will be in charge of Dhenkanal district, Labour and ESI and […]
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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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Cuttack: Odisha, considered as one of the best wildlife spots in the country, is no longer a safe home. Wildlife populations especially elephants, pangolins and turtles suffers high mortality rates. While most species are dying because of forest encroachment, tigers are severely affected due to escalation in poaching. For Odisha’s fast dwindling wildlife, life continues […]
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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: Odisha has registered a significant improvement in NITI Aayog’s School Education Quality Index. From 13th in 2015-16 (Base), the State now stands at seventh in 2016-17 (Reference) among major States. Chief Secretary Asit Tripathy and School and Mass Education Secretary Chitra Armugam on Monday apprised Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on this achievement at the Lok […]
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Bhubaneswar: With good rainfall in August and September, the average cumulative rainfall of the State from June 1 to September 30, 2019 has registered a surplus of 9.9%. While the cumulative rainfall in the State was deficient by 31.5% and 9.0% respectively in June and July, the rainfall in August and September remained surplus by […]
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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: Taking strong note of public resentment over steep penalties being enforced under amended Motor Vehicle Act, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Monday asked the enforcement agencies not to aggressively go on an overdrive against traffic rule violators for next three months. The Chief Minister appealed to the people to get the papers of their […]
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